1846 in France
Events from the year 1846 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 January – Barentin Viaduct on the Paris–Le Havre railway collapses soon after its completion by English engineers.
- 1 August – Legislative election held for the seventh legislature of the July Monarchy.
- 19 September – Our Lady of La Salette apparition.
- Dubonnet first sold.
Births
- 1 January - Léon Denis, spiritist philosopher and researcher
- 4 April - Comte de Lautréamont, poet
- 8 May - Émile Gallé, artist
- 21 May - Luc-Olivier Merson, painter and illustrator
- 11 July - Léon Bloy, novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet
- 8 August - Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, and feminist
- 21 August - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst
- 2 September - Paul Déroulède, author and politician
- 24 October - Denis Jean Achille Luchaire, historian
- 28 October - Albert Dubois-Pillet, painter and army officer
- 28 October - Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer
- 30 October - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 17 June - Jean-Gaspard Deburau, actor and mime
- 25 July - Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I of France
- 16 August - Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France
- 22 December - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, naturalist
Full date unknown
- Thérèse Albert, actress
- Jacques-Antoine-Adrien Delort, general and deputy
- Ambroise-Louis-Marie d'Hozier, last of the juges d'armes of France
- Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon, politician