1882 in France

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28 March – Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
6 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention is signed by United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France to regulate the policy of the fisheries in the North Sea.^[1]

13 January – Darius Paul Dassault, General (died 1969)
18 January – Lazare Lévy, pianist, composer and teacher (died 1964)
19 January – Pierre Allemane, international soccer player (died 1956)
5 February – Louis Wagner, motor racing driver (died 1960)
21 February – Jean Dupas, painter, designer, poster artist and decorator (died 1964)
26 February – Pierre Mac Orlan, novelist and songwriter (died 1970)
20 March – René Coty, politician, President of France (died 1962)

2 July – Princess Marie Bonaparte, psychoanalyst (died 1962)
8 August – François Piétri, politician, Minister and diplomat (died 1966)
10 August – Paul Marchandeau, politician and Minister (died 1968)
16 August – Désiré Mérchez, swimmer, water polo player and Olympic medallist (died 1968)
10 September – Jacques Gréber, architect (died 1962)
24 September – Max Décugis, tennis player (died 1978)

12 October – Émile Girardeau, engineer (died 1970).
18 October – Lucien Petit-Breton, cyclist, winner of 1907 and 1908 Tour de France (died 1917)
25 October – André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, Cardinal (died 1964)
29 October – Jean Giraudoux, novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (died 1944)
18 November – Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher (died 1973)
22 November – Charles Vildrac, playwright and poet (died 1971)
29 November – Henri Fabre, aviator and aircraft designer (died 1984)
7 December – Robert Debré, pediatrician (died 1978)
31 December – Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (died 1967)

6 August – Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne, historian (born 1820)
16 August – Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general (born 1817)
22 August – Louis-Auguste Desmarres, ophthalmologist (born 1810)
8 September – Joseph Liouville, mathematician (born 1809)
14 September – Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (born 1839)
6 December – Louis Blanc, politician and historian (born 1811)
26 December – Henri Le Secq, painter and photographer (born 1818)
31 December – Léon Gambetta, statesman (born 1838)

^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "North Sea Fisheries Convention". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787.
^ Jane Moody, ‘Céleste , Céline (1810/11–1882)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004: According to ODNB article, Celeste's year of birth was probably 1810 or 1811

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