1851 in France

Events from the year 1851 in France.

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1 March - Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe in a speech to the French national assembly.
1 July - Serial poisoner Helene Jegado is arrested in Rennes.
2 December - Coup d'État, is staged by President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, dissolving the French National Assembly.
6 December - Trial of Helene Jegado begins; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed by guillotine.
21 December - Constitutional referendum held, approving President Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, who had been limited to a single four-year term, serving for ten additional years.

27 March - Vincent d'Indy, composer (d.1931).
21 April - Charles Barrois, geologist and palaeontologist (d.1939).
6 May - Aristide Bruant, singer, comedian and nightclub owner (d.1925).
21 May - Léon Bourgeois, politician, Prime Minister, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1920 (d.1925).
30 September - Auguste Molinier, historian (d.1904).
2 October - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer (d.1929).