1853 in France
Events from the year 1853 in France.
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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 (Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines).
 
Births
    
- 20 January - Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger, feminist campaigner (died 1924).
 - 23 April - Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer (died 1928).
 - 27 April - Jules Lemaître, critic and dramatist (died 1914).
 - 21 May - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, politician (died 1905).
 - 14 July - Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (died 1913).
 - 24 July - Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, astronomer (died 1948).
 - 14 August – Dominique-Marie Gauchet, admiral (died 1931)
 - 9 September - Pierre Marie, neurologist (died 1940).
 - 30 October - Louise Abbéma, painter and designer (died 1927).
 - 17 December - Pierre Paul Émile Roux, physician, bacteriologist and immunologist (died 1933).
 - 26 December - René Bazin, novelist (died 1932).
 
Deaths
    
- 8 January - Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (born 1764).
 - 20 February - Jean-François Bayard, playwright (born 1796).
 - 3 April - Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, politician (born 1764).
 - 11 April - Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, composer, pianist and harpsichordist (born 1768).
 - 23 April - Auguste Laurent, chemist (born 1807).
 - 27 May - Jean Marie Pardessus, lawyer (born 1772).
 - May - Henri-Bernard Dabadie, baritone (born 1797).
 - 3 September - Augustin Saint-Hilaire, botanist and traveller (born 1799).
 - 10 October - Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, architect, interior decorator and designer (born 1762).
 
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