1833 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis Philippe I

  Events

• 28 June - Law promulgated by François Guizot requires every commune or municipality to maintain a public primary school.
• 1 December - Launch of Le Ménestrel, a weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.

  Births

• 12 February - Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, pianist, teacher and composer
• 4 March - Antoine Alphonse Chassepot, gunsmith and inventor
• 17 April - Arthur Arnould, anarchist
• 20 August - Gustave Denis, industrialist
• 8 October - André Theuriet, poet and novelist

  Deaths

• 12 January - Marie-Antoine Carême, chef
• 19 January - Ferdinand Hérold, composer
• 3 February - Henri François Delaborde, general
• 27 March - Louis Fursy Henri Compère, soldier
• 10 May - François Andrieux, dramatist
• 5 July - Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer
• 6 July - Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, painter
• 3 October - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, general and military engineer
• 17 October - François-Isidore Gagelin, missionary