1832 in France
# 1832 in France

Events from the year 1832 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Louis Philippe I

## Events

* 5 June - Anti-monarchist June Rebellion briefly breaks out in Paris.
* 4–23 December - Siege of Antwerp: the last remaining Dutch defensive point, the citadel, falls to French attack.

## Arts and literature

* 26 February - Chopin gives his debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel.
* September - The Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse in Paris.
* Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opens on the site of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris under Frédérick Lemaître.
* Honoré de Balzac publishes the novels La Bourse, Le Curé de Tours, Le Colonel Chabert and Louis Lambert.

## Births

* 6 January - Gustave Doré, artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor (died 1883)
* 23 January - Édouard Manet, painter (died 1883)
* 16 February - Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (died 1913)
* 12 March
   * Jean Alfred Fournier, dermatologist (died 1914)
   * Charles Friedel, chemist and mineralogist (died 1889)
* 26 March - Michel Bréal, philologist (died 1915)
* 25 May - Marie-Louise Gagneur, née Mignerot, feminist (died 1902)
* 6 July - Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada (died 1893)
* 29 September - Léon Labbé, surgeon and politician (died 1916)
* 15 December - Gustave Eiffel, structural engineer and architect, designer of the Eiffel Tower (died 1923)
* Full date unknown - Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy, entomologist (died 1912).

## Deaths

### January to June

* 4 March - Jean-François Champollion, classical scholar, philologist and orientalist (born 1790).
* 13 April - Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, painter (born 1759).
* 23 April - François-Nicolas Delaistre, sculptor (born 1746).
* 7 May - Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, physicist and painter (born 1759).
* 13 May - Georges Cuvier, naturalist and zoologist (born 1769).
* 16 May - Casimir Pierre Périer, statesman (born 1777).
* 26 May - François-Louis Perne, composer and musicographer (born 1772).
* 31 May - Évariste Galois, mathematician (born 1811).
* 1 June - Jean Maximilien Lamarque, statesman (born 1770).
* 4 June - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist (born 1788).
* 5 June - 166 deaths at the barricades in the June Rebellion

### July to December

* 22 July - Napoleon II of France, son of Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1811).
* 23 July - Louis-François Jeannet, general (born 1768).
* 17 August - Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil, soldier (born 1776).
* 24 August - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physicist and military engineer (born 1796).
* 9 September - Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, general (born 1769).
* 15 November - Jean-Baptiste Say, economist and businessman (born 1767).
