1851 in France

See also: 1850 in France, other events of 1851, 1852 in France.

Events from the year 1851 in France.

Events

• 1 March - Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe in a speech to the French national assembly.
• 1 July - Serial poisoner Hélène Jégado 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 Hélène Jégado 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.

Births

• 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).

Deaths

• 28 February - Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France, (b.1775).
• 19 October - Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France, eldest child of King Louis XVI of France (b.1778).
• 26 November - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Marshal General of France and three times Prime Minister of France (b.1769).

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