1848 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.

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).

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).