1832 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis Philippe I

Events

• 22 February – French Expedition to Ancona occupies Ancona in Italy, remaining until 1838
• 5 June - Anti-monarchist June Rebellion briefly breaks out in Paris.
• 9 August – Leopold I of Belgium and marries Louise of Orléans, the eldest daughter of the French king, at the Château de Compiègne
• 4-23 December - Siege of Antwerp: the last remaining Dutch defensive point, the citadel, falls to French attack.

Arts and literature

• 26 February - Chopin gives his debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel.
• September - The Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse in Paris.
• Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opens on the site of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris under Frédérick Lemaître.
• Honoré de Balzac publishes the novels La Bourse, Le Curé de Tours, Le Colonel Chabert and Louis Lambert.

Births

• 6 January - Gustave Doré, artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor
• 23 January - Édouard Manet, painter
• 16 February - Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army
• 12 March
• * Jean Alfred Fournier, dermatologist
• * Charles Friedel, chemist and mineralogist
• 26 March - Michel Bréal, philologist
• 25 May - Marie-Louise Gagneur, née Mignerot, feminist
• 6 July - Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada
• 29 September - Léon Labbé, surgeon and politician
• 15 December - Gustave Eiffel, structural engineer and architect, designer of the Eiffel Tower
• Full date unknown - Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy, entomologist.

Deaths

January to June

• 4 March - Jean-François Champollion, classical scholar, philologist and orientalist.
• 13 April - Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, painter.
• 23 April - François-Nicolas Delaistre, sculptor.
• 7 May - Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, physicist and painter.
• 13 May - Georges Cuvier, naturalist and zoologist.
• 16 May - Casimir Pierre Périer, statesman.
• 26 May - François-Louis Perne, composer and musicographer.
• 31 May - Évariste Galois, mathematician.
• 1 June - Jean Maximilien Lamarque, statesman.
• 4 June - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist.
• 5 June - 166 deaths at the barricades in the June Rebellion

July to December

• 22 July - Napoleon II of France, son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
• 23 July - Louis-François Jeannet, general.
• 17 August - Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil, soldier.
• 24 August - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physicist and military engineer.
• 9 September - Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, general.
• 15 November - Jean-Baptiste Say, economist and businessman.