1882 in France
Events from the year 1882 in France.
Events
- 28 March - Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
- 6 May - North Sea Fisheries Convention is signed by United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France to regulate the policy of the fisheries in the North Sea.
Births
January to March
- 13 January - Darius Paul Dassault, General (died 1969).
- 18 January - Lazare Lévy, pianist, composer and teacher (died 1964).
- 19 January - Pierre Allemane, international soccer player (died 1956).
- 5 February - Louis Wagner, motor racing driver (died 1960).
- 21 February - Jean Dupas, painter, designer, poster artist and decorator (died 1964).
- 26 February - Pierre Mac Orlan, novelist and songwriter (died 1970).
- 20 March - René Coty, politician, President of France (died 1962).
April to June
- 16 April - André Edouard Marty, artist (died 1974).
- 17 April - Émile Muselier, Admiral (died 1965).
- 10 May - Donatien Bouché, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1965).
- 13 May - Georges Braque, painter and sculptor (died 1963).
- 25 May - Maurice Le Boucher, organist, composer, and pedagogue (died 1964).
- 13 June - Claude-Léon Mascaux, sculptor (died 1965).
- 22 June - Jacques Thubé, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1969).
- 28 June - Jean-Julien Lemordant, artist and soldier (died 1968).
July to September
- 2 July - Princess Marie Bonaparte, psychoanalyst (died 1962).
- 8 August - François Piétri, politician, Minister and diplomat (died 1966).
- 10 August - Paul Marchandeau, politician and Minister (died 1968).
- 16 August - Désiré Mérchez, swimmer, water polo player and Olympic medallist (died 1968).
- 10 September - Jacques Gréber, architect (died 1962).
- 24 September - Max Décugis, tennis player (died 1978).
October to December
- 12 October - Émile Girardeau, engineer (died 1970).
- 18 October - Lucien Petit-Breton, cyclist, winner of 1907 and 1908 Tour de France (died 1917).
- 25 October - André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, Cardinal (died 1964).
- 29 October - Jean Giraudoux, novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (died 1944).
- 18 November - Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher (died 1973).
- 22 November - Charles Vildrac, playwright and poet (died 1971).
- 29 November - Henri Fabre, aviator and aircraft designer (died 1984).
- 7 December - Robert Debré, pediatrician (died 1978).
- 31 December - Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (died 1967).
Full date unknown
- Louis Gernet, philologist and sociologist (died 1962).
- Robert Louzon, engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist and socialist (died 1976).
- Julien Peridier, electrical engineer and astronomer (died 1967).
Deaths
January to June
- 1 February - Antoine Bussy, chemist (born 1794).
- 12 February - Madame Céleste, actress (born 1815).
- 20 February - Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (born 1794).
- 8 April - Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat, historian and archaeologist (born 1814).
- 1 May - Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Indianapolis (born 1798).
- 17 May - François Chabas, egyptologist (born 1817).
- 15 June - Ernest Courtot de Cissey, General (born 1810).
- 20 June - François-Auguste Biard, painter (born 1800).
- 25 June - François Jouffroy, sculptor (born 1806).
July to December
- 6 August - Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne, historian (born 1820).
- 16 August - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general (born 1817).
- 22 August - Louis-Auguste Desmarres, ophthalmologist (born 1810).
- 8 September - Joseph Liouville, mathematician (born 1809).
- 14 September - Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (born 1839).
- 6 December - Louis Blanc, politician and historian (born 1811).
- 26 December - Henri Le Secq, painter and photographer (born 1818).
- 31 December - Léon Gambetta, statesman (born 1838).
