1848 in France
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See also: 1847 in France, other events of 1848, 1849 in France.

Events from the year 1848 in France.

Events

• 22 February - In Paris, revolt erupts against the king Louis Philippe. Two days later he abdicates.
• 23 February - Prime Minister François Guizot resigns.
• 26 February - Provisional government is organised called the Second Republic.
• 23 April - Constituent Assembly election held.
• 24 April - Constituent Assembly election held.
• 6 May - Executive Commission of the French Republic is set up, jointly heads of state during the Second Republic.
• 15 May - Radicals invade the Chamber of deputies.
• 23 June - June Days Uprising begins after closure of the National Workshops created by the Second Republic to give work to the unemployed.
• 25 June - June Days Uprising ends with 1,500 killed and 15,000 prisoners were deported to Algeria.
• 28 June - Term of the Executive Commission of the French Republic ends.
• 28 August - Mathieu Luis becomes the first black member to join the French parliament, as a representative of Guadaloupe.
• 4 November - France ratifies a new constitution. The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848.
• 10 December - Presidential election held. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected president of the French Republic.
• 20 December - President Bonaparte takes his Oath of Office in front of the French National Assembly.

Unknown dates

• Slavery is abolished in France.

Births

• 21 January - Henri Duparc, composer (d.1933).
• 4 February - Jean Aicard, poet, dramatist and novelist (d.1921).
• 5 February - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (d.1907).
• 14 February - Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer (d.1934).
• 16 February - Octave Mirbeau, journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist and playwright (d.1917).
• 10 April - Hubertine Auclert, feminist and campaigner for women's suffrage (d.1914).
• 7 June - Paul Gauguin, painter (d.1903).
• 31 July - Robert Planquette, composer of songs and operettas (d.1903).
• 3 October - Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron (d.1929).
• 1 November - Jules Bastien-Lepage, painter (d.1884).
• 22 November - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle (d.1932).

Full date unknown

• Jean Bourdeau, writer (d.1928).
• Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (d.1913).
• Jules-Felix Coutan, sculptor (d.1939).

Deaths

• 29 February - Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer (b.1775).
• 27 March - Claude Charles Marie du Campe de Rosamel, politician and naval officer (b.1774).
• 21 May - Pierre Wantzel, mathematician (b.1814).
• 27 June - Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (b.1793).
• 4 July - François-René de Chateaubriand, writer, politician and diplomat (b.1768).
• 2 December - Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois, admiral (b.1761).
• 14 December - Jean Antoine Letronne, archaeologist (b.1787).

Full date unknown

• Louis François Cauchy, government official (b.1760).
• Jean-Baptiste Debret, painter (b.1768).
• Delphine Delamare, housewife and suicide (b.1822).
• Jean-Antoine Dubois, Catholic missionary in India (b.1765).

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