1851 in France
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Events from the year 1851 in France
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1850 in France
1850 in France
See also:1849 in France,other events of 1850,1851 in France.----Events from the year 1850 in France.-Events:*15 April - Angers Bridge collapsed when 478 French soldiers marched across it...
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other events of 1851,
1852 in France
1852 in France
See also:1851 in France,other events of 1852,1853 in France.----Events from the year 1852 in France.-Events:*14 January - French Constitution of 1852 enacted by Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte ....
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Events from the year 1851 in France
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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Events
- 1 March - Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
uses the phrase United States of EuropeUnited States of EuropeSince the 1950s, European integration has seen the development of a supranational system of governance, as its institutions move further from the concept of simple intergovernmentalism. However, with the Maastricht Treaty of 1993, new intergovernmental elements have been introduced alongside the...
in a speech to the French national assembly. - 1 July - Serial poisoner Hélène JégadoHélène JegadoHélène Jégado was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years...
is arrested in RennesRennesRennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...
. - 2 December - Coup d'ÉtatFrench coup of 1851The French coup d'état on 2 December 1851, staged by Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte , ended in the successful dissolution of the French National Assembly, as well as the subsequent re-establishment of the French Empire the next year...
, is staged by President Louis-Napoléon BonaparteNapoleon III of FranceLouis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the President of the French Second Republic and as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, christened as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte...
, dissolving the French National AssemblyFrench National AssemblyThe French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate ....
. - 6 December - Trial of Hélène JégadoHélène JegadoHélène Jégado was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years...
begins; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed by guillotineGuillotineThe guillotine is a device used for carrying out :executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body...
. - 21 December - Constitutional referendumFrench constitutional referendum, 1851A referendum was held in France on 20 and 21 October 1851. Voters were asked whether they approved of the continuation of the authority of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte and to delegate the powers required to produce a new constitution. It was approved by 92% of voters with an 81.7%...
held, approving President Louis Napoléon BonaparteNapoleon III of FranceLouis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the President of the French Second Republic and as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, christened as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte...
, who had been limited to a single four-year term, serving for ten additional years.
Births
- 27 March - Vincent d'IndyVincent d'IndyVincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
, composer (d.19311931 in FranceSee also:1930 in France,other events of 1931,1932 in France.----Events from the year 1931 in France.-Events:*27 January - Pierre Laval forms a government in France....
). - 21 April - Charles BarroisCharles BarroisCharles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet...
, geologist and palaeontologist (d.19391939 in FranceSee also:1938 in France,other events of 1939,1940 in France.----Events from the year 1939 in France.-Events:*27 February - United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government in Spain....
). - 6 May - Aristide BruantAristide BruantAristide Bruant was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...
, singer, comedian and nightclub owner (d.19251925 in FranceSee also:1924 in France,other events of 1925,1926 in France.----Events from the year 1925 in France.-Events:*21 May to 25 october International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble....
). - 21 May - Léon BourgeoisLéon Bourgeois-Biography:He was born in Paris, and was trained in law. After holding a subordinate office in the department of public works, he became successively prefect of the Tarn and the Haute-Garonne , and then returned to Paris to enter the ministry of the interior...
, politician, Prime MinisterPrime Minister of FranceThe Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...
, awarded Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace PrizeThe Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
in 1920 (d.19251925 in FranceSee also:1924 in France,other events of 1925,1926 in France.----Events from the year 1925 in France.-Events:*21 May to 25 october International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble....
). - 30 September - Auguste MolinierAuguste MolinierAugust Molinier was a French historian.He was born at Toulouse. He was a pupil at the École des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École des Hautes Études; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine , at Fontainebleau , and at Sainte-Geneviève, of which he...
, historian (d.19041904 in FranceSee also:1903 in France,other events of 1904,1905 in France.----Events from the year 1904 in France.-Events:*8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.-Sport:...
). - 2 October - Ferdinand FochFerdinand FochFerdinand Foch , GCB, OM, DSO was a French soldier, war hero, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French army" in the early 20th century. He served as general in the French army during World War I and was made Marshal of France in its...
, Marshal of FranceMarshal of FranceThe Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
, military theorist and writer (d.19291929 in FranceSee also:1928 in France,other events of 1929,1930 in France.----Events from the year 1929 in France.-Events:*24 July - Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand....
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Deaths
- 28 February - Guillaume Dode de la BrunerieGuillaume Dode de la BrunerieGuillaume Dode de la Brunerie was a Marshal of France. On February 12, 1812, he married the daughter of Marshal Pérignon, Agathe-Virginie.-Early life and French revolutionary wars:...
, Marshal of FranceMarshal of FranceThe Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
, (b.17751775 in FranceSee also:1774 in France,other events of 1775,1776 in France.----Events from the year 1775 in France.-January to June:*20 January - André-Marie Ampère, physicist ....
). - 19 October - Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of FranceMarie-Thérèse-Charlotte of FranceMarie Thérèse de France was the eldest child of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette...
, eldest child of King Louis XVI of FranceLouis XVI of FranceLouis XVI was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being executed in 1793....
(b.1778). - 26 November - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Marshal General of FranceMarshal General of FranceThe title Marshal General of France or more exactly "Marshal General of the King's camps and armies" was given to signify that the recipient had authority over all the French armies in the days when a Marshal governed only one army usually...
and three times Prime Minister of FrancePrime Minister of FranceThe Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...
(b.17691769 in FranceSee also:1768 in France,other events of 1769,1770 in France.----Events from the year 1769 in France.-Events:*8 May - Battle of Ponte Novu begins between royal French forces and the native Corsicans....
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