Events from the year 1846 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis Philippe I
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 (died 1927) 4 April - Comte de Lautréamont, poet (died 1870) 8 May - Émile Gallé, artist (died 1904) 21 May - Luc-Olivier Merson, painter and illustrator (died 1920) 11 July - Léon Bloy, novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet (died 1917) 8 August - Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, and feminist (died 1932) 21 August - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (died 1931) 2 September - Paul Déroulède, author and politician (died 1914) 24 October - Denis Jean Achille Luchaire, historian (died 1908) 28 October - Albert Dubois-Pillet, painter and army officer (died 1890) 28 October - Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer (died 1935) 30 October - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat (died 1906)
Full date unknown Arsène Darmesteter, philologist (died 1888)
Deaths 17 June - Jean-Gaspard Deburau, actor and mime (born 1796) 25 July - Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I of France (born 1778) 16 August - Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (born 1773) 22 December - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, naturalist (born 1778)
Full date unknown Thérèse Albert, actress (b. c. 1805) Jacques-Antoine-Adrien Delort, general and deputy (born 1773) Ambroise-Louis-Marie d'Hozier, last of the juges d'armes of France (born 1764) Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon, politician (born 1781)
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