1812 in France

• Emperor – Napoleon I{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bonaparte_napoleon.shtml?basic=1 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=26 June 2022}}

• The Peninsular War (1807–1814)
• 12 February – Metric system rescinded for everyday use
• 24 June - 14 December – The French invasion of Russia

• The Charging Chasseur, painting by Théodore Géricault
• Fantasmagoriana, book by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès

• 4 January – Alexandre Monnet, bishop (died 1849)
• 15 April – Théodore Rousseau, painter (died 1867)
• 13 June – Adolphe Braun, photographer (died 1877)
• 9 November – Paul Abadie, architect (died 1884)
• 15 November – Adolphe Pierre Leleux, painter (died 1891)

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• 13 February – Jacques Marie Boutet, actor and comic dramatist (born 1745)
• 24 February – Étienne-Louis Malus, military officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1775)
• 24 July – Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral (born 1747)
• 30 August – Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, poet (born 1764)
• 22 October – Alexis Joseph Delzons, general (born 1775)
• 29 October – Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal, general (born 1764)
• 22 December – Pierre Henri Larcher, classical scholar and archaeologist (born 1726)

• Jean Baptiste Eblé, general (born 1758){{cite encyclopedia |title=Eblé, Jean Baptiste |page=675 |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=6 |year=1917 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/6/0715.html |access-date=23 November 2014 }}

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