1848 in France
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Events from the year 1848 in France.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
- 21 January - Henri Duparc, composer (d.1933).
- 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).
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- Jean Bourdeau, writer (d.1928).
- Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (d.1913).
- Jules-Felix Coutan, sculptor (d.1939).
[edit] 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).
- 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).
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- 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).
