1851 in France

Events from the year 1851 in France.

Decades:

Events

1 July - Serial poisoner HÃ©lÃ¨ne JÃ©gado is arrested in Rennes.^[1]
17 July - Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe in a speech to the National Assembly.
2 December - French coup d'Ã©tat of 1851 is staged by President Louis-NapolÃ©on Bonaparte, dissolving the National Assembly.^[2]^[3]
6 December - Trial of HÃ©lÃ¨ne JÃ©gado begins; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed by guillotine.
21 December - Constitutional referendum held, approving President Louis NapolÃ©on Bonaparte, who had been limited to a single four-year term, serving for ten additional years.
Messageries Maritimes merchant shipping company founded as Messageries nationales, initially for service to the Middle East.
Grands Goulets road completed
The Charles Heidsieck champagne house is established.

27 March - Vincent d'Indy, composer (died 1931)
6 April - Guillaume Bigourdan, astronomer (died 1932)
15 April - Anne Boutiaut Poulard, cook (died 1931)
21 April - Charles Barrois, geologist and palaeontologist (died 1939)
6 May - Aristide Bruant, singer, comedian and nightclub owner (died 1925)
21 May - LÃ©on Bourgeois, politician, Prime Minister, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1920 (died 1925)
29 June - Jane Dieulafoy, born Jeanne Magre, archaeologist and novelist (died 1916)
30 September - Auguste Molinier, historian (died 1904)
2 October - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer (died 1929)