1853 in France
Events from the year 1853 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 30 June - Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris.
- 6 December - Taiping Rebellion: French minister de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the Cassini.
- 14 December - Compagnie Générale des Eaux established by imperial decree.
- Arthur de Gobineau begins publication of his An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races.
Births
- 20 January - Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger, feminist campaigner.
- 23 April - Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer.
- 27 April - Jules Lemaître, critic and dramatist.
- 21 May - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, politician.
- 14 July - Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer.
- 24 July - Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, astronomer.
- 14 August – Dominique-Marie Gauchet, admiral
- 9 September - Pierre Marie, neurologist.
- 30 October - Louise Abbéma, painter and designer.
- 17 December - Pierre Paul Émile Roux, physician, bacteriologist and immunologist.
- 26 December - René Bazin, novelist.
- 30 December - André Messager, composer and conductor.
Deaths
- 8 January - Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator.
- 20 February - Jean-François Bayard, playwright.
- 3 April - Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, politician.
- 11 April - Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, composer, pianist and harpsichordist.
- 23 April - Auguste Laurent, chemist.
- 27 May - Jean Marie Pardessus, lawyer.
- May - Henri-Bernard Dabadie, baritone.
- 3 September - Augustin Saint-Hilaire, botanist and traveller.
- 10 October - Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, architect, interior decorator and designer.