Events from the year 1832 in France.

• Monarch – Louis Philippe I

• 5 June - Anti-monarchist June Rebellion briefly breaks out in Paris.
• 4–23 December - Siege of Antwerp: the last remaining Dutch defensive point, the citadel, falls to French attack.

• 26 February - Chopin gives his debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel.
• September - The Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse in Paris.
• Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques opens on the site of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris under Frédérick Lemaître.^[1]
• Honoré de Balzac publishes the novels La Bourse, Le Curé de Tours, Le Colonel Chabert and Louis Lambert.

• 6 January - Gustave Doré, artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor (died 1883)
• 23 January - Édouard Manet, painter (died 1883)
• 16 February - Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (died 1913)
• 12 March
  • Jean Alfred Fournier, dermatologist (died 1914)
  • Charles Friedel, chemist and mineralogist (died 1889)
• 26 March - Michel Bréal, philologist (died 1915)
• 25 May - Marie-Louise Gagneur, née Mignerot, feminist (died 1902)
• 6 July - Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada (died 1893)
• 29 September - Léon Labbé, surgeon and politician (died 1916)
• 15 December - Gustave Eiffel, structural engineer and architect, designer of the Eiffel Tower (died 1923)
• Full date unknown - Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy, entomologist (died 1912).