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1873 in France
See also:1872 in France,other events of 1873,1874 in France.----Events from the year 1873 in France.-Events:*16 September - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War....
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other events of 1874,
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1875 in France
See also:1874 in France,other events of 1875,1876 in France.----Events from the year 1875 in France.-Arts and literature:*3 March - The first performance of Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris.-Births:...
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Events from the year 1874 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Arts and literature
- 23 January - Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
' composition Danse MacabreDanse Macabre (Saint-Saëns)Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based in an old French superstition...
is premiered. - 25 April - Louis LeroyLouis LeroyLouis Leroy was a French 19th century engraver, painter, and successful playwright. However, he is remembered as the journalist and art critic for the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari, who coined the term "impressionists" to satirise the artists now known by the word.Leroy's review was...
reviews the first Impressionist exhibition, held in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, and coins the term with reference to Claude MonetClaude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
's Impression, Sunrise.
January to June
- 21 January - René-Louis BaireRené-Louis BaireRené-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems...
, mathematician (d.19321932 in FranceSee also:1931 in France,other events of 1932,1933 in France.----Events from the year 1932 in France.-Events:*1 May - Legislative Election held.*6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul Doumer in Paris...
). - 22 March - Jean CauJean Cau (rower)Jean Cau was a French rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the French boat Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours.-External links:**...
, rower. - 3 May - François CotyFrançois CotyFrançois Coty was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française...
, perfume manufacturer (d.19341934 in FranceSee also:1933 in France,other events of 1934,1935 in France.----Events from the year 1934 in France.-Events:*6 February - an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues, finished in a riot and led to a political crisis.*9 February - Gaston Doumergue forms a new...
). - 14 May - Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (d.19391939 in FranceSee also:1938 in France,other events of 1939,1940 in France.----Events from the year 1939 in France.-Events:*27 February - United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government in Spain....
).
July to December
- 29 July - Auguste GirouxAuguste GirouxAuguste Giroux was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the gold medal.-External links:*...
, rugby union player (d.19531953 in FranceSee also:1952 in France,other events of 1953,1954 in France.----Events from the year 1953 in France.-Events:*4 January - Operation Bretagne ends, with French victory over the Viet Minh in Vietnam....
). - 4 September - Jean d'Orléans, duc de GuiseJean d'Orléans, duc de GuiseJean Pierre Clément Marie d'Orléans, Duke of Guise , was the son of Robert, Duke of Chartres , grandson of Ferdinand-Philippe and great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French...
, great-grandson of Louis Philippe ILouis-Philippe of FranceLouis Philippe I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 in what was known as the July Monarchy. His father was a duke who supported the French Revolution but was nevertheless guillotined. Louis Philippe fled France as a young man and spent 21 years in exile, including considerable time in the...
, King of the French (d.19401940 in FranceSee also:1939 in France,other events of 1940,1941 in France.----Events from the year 1940 in France.-Events:*21 March - Édouard Daladier resigns as Prime Minister...
). - 2 November - Georges AndriqueGeorges AndriqueGeorges Andriques was a French Impressionist painter. He was born and died in Calais . He largely painted in oils but also worked with watercolours. Andrique produced a number of posters including advertisements for the port of Calais...
, painter (d.19641964 in FranceSee also:1963 in France,other events of 1964,1965 in France.----Events from the year 1964 in France.-Events:*27 January - France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations....
). - 14 November - André-Gaston PrételatAndré-Gaston PrételatAndré-Gaston Prételat was a general in the French Army.-1910-1918:His first post, from 1910 to 1912, was as military attaché to Tangier...
, General (d.19691969 in FranceSee also:1968 in France,other events of 1969,1970 in France.----Events from the year 1969 in France.-Events:*2 March - In Toulouse the first Concorde test flight is conducted.*27 April - Constitutional Referendum held and proposals were rejected....
). - 6 December - Lucien DémanetLucien DémanetLucien Démanet was a French gymnast who competed at the turn of the 20th century. He participated in Gymnastics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the bronze medal with a total score of 293 points in the only gymnastic event to take place at the games, the combined exercises...
, gymnast. - 24 December - Yves Le FebvreYves Le FebvreYves Le Febvre, , was a leftist and anticlerical Breton writer and politician.-Life and work:Born in a middle-class family in Morlaix, Finistère, he studied law in Rennes then in Paris, becoming a Doctor of Law in 1901...
, writer and politician (d.19591959 in FranceSee also:1958 in France,other events of 1959,1960 in France.----Events from the year 1959 in France.-Events:*8 January - Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as the first president of French Fifth Republic....
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Full date unknown
- Joseph d'ArbaudJoseph d'Arbaud-Biography:Born in Meyrargues, he was schooled by Jesuits in Avignon, then studied law in Aix.After spending a few years with young writers from Aix-en-Provence, he left for Camargue and became a bull-herder.In 1918 he became a chief figure in Félibrige....
, poet (d.19501950 in FranceSee also:1949 in France,other events of 1950,1951 in France.----Events from the year 1950 in France.-Events:*11 February - Two Vietcong battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.*12 February - Pro-communist riots in Paris....
). - Henri BénardHenri BénardHenri Bénard, , French physicist, best known for his research on convection in liquids that now carries his name, Benard convection....
, physicist (d.19391939 in FranceSee also:1938 in France,other events of 1939,1940 in France.----Events from the year 1939 in France.-Events:*27 February - United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government in Spain....
). - Henriette CaillauxHenriette CaillauxHenriette Caillaux was a Parisian socialite and second wife of the former Prime Minister of France. She is remembered as an assassin.-Biography:...
, socialite and assassin (d.19431943 in FranceSee also:1942 in France,other events of 1943,1944 in France.----Events from the year 1943 in France.-Events:*22 January - Battle of Marseille begins...
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Deaths
- 8 January - Charles Étienne Brasseur de BourbourgCharles Etienne Brasseur de BourbourgAbbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist...
, writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist (b.18141814 in FranceSee also:1813 in France,other events of 1814,1815 in France.----Events from the year 1814 in France.-Events:*26 January - First Battle of St-Dizier, French victory over Russian forces....
). - 13 January - Victor BaltardVictor BaltardVictor Baltard , French architect, who was born in Paris, son of architect Louis Baltard.Until 1833, Baltard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he garnered the Prix de Rome for designing a military school in 1833...
, architect (b.18051805 in FranceSee also:1804 in France,other events of 1805,1806 in France.----Events from the year 1805 in France.-Events:*22 July - Battle of Cape Finisterre, British defeat of Franco-Spanish fleet....
). - 26 January - Félix Édouard Guérin-MénevilleFélix Édouard Guérin-MénevilleFélix Édouard Guérin-Méneville was a French entomologist.Guérin-Méneville changed his surname from Guérin in 1836. He was the author of the illustrated work Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844, a complement to the work of Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille, which lacked...
, entomologist (b.1799). - 4 April - Charles Ernest BeuléCharles Ernest Beuléthumb|Beulé's grave at the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in ParisCharles Ernest Beulé was a French archaeologist and politician.-Biography:...
, archaeologist and politicianPoliticianA politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
(b.18261826 in FranceSee also:1825 in France,other events of 1826,1827 in France.----Events from the year 1826 in France.-Events:*June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph.-Births:*6 April - Gustave Moreau, painter ....
). - 15 May - Auguste CarayonAuguste CarayonAuguste Carayon was a French Jesuit author and bibliographer.He was born in Saumur, France in 1813; he joined the Society of Jesus in 1848, and was at various times librarian and procurator...
, Jesuit author and bibliographer (b.18131813 in FranceSee also:1812 in France,other events of 1813,1814 in France.----Events from the year 1813 in France.-Events:*2 May - Battle of Lützen, French victory over a combined Prussian and Russian force....
). - 30 June - Blanche d'AntignyBlanche d'AntignyBlanche d'Antigny was a French singer and actress whose fame today rests chiefly on the fact that Émile Zola used her as the principal model for his novel Nana.-History:...
, singer and actress (b.18401840 in FranceSee also:1839 in France,other events of 1840,1841 in France.----Events from the year 1840 in France.-Events:*20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.*1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister....
). - 4 September - Alfred de BougyAlfred de BougyAlfred James Louis Joseph de Bougy , French poet and author, was born in Grenoble. He died in Évian-les-Bains.-Works:* Histoire de la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: Comon, 1847...
, poet and author (b.18141814 in FranceSee also:1813 in France,other events of 1814,1815 in France.----Events from the year 1814 in France.-Events:*26 January - First Battle of St-Dizier, French victory over Russian forces....
). - 5 December - Hippolyte François JaubertHippolyte François JaubertCount Hippolyte François Jaubert was a French politician and botanist.Jaubert was born in Paris, the son of François Hippolyte Jaubert and Rosalie Mélanie Cheminade...
, politician and botanist (b.17981798 in FranceSee also:1797 in France,other events of 1798,1799 in France.----Events from the year 1798 in France.-Events:*10 February - The Papacy is removed from power by the French General Louis Alexandre Berthier....
). - 31 December - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-RollinAlexandre Auguste Ledru-RollinAlexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin was a French politician.The grandson of Nicolas Philippe Ledru, the celebrated quack doctor known as "Comus" under Louis XV and Louis XVI, Ledru-Rollin was born in a house that had once been Paul Scarron's, at Fontenay-aux-Roses...
, politician (b.18071807 in FranceSee also:1806 in France,other events of 1807,1808 in France.----Events from the year 1807 in France.-Events:*February - Napoleon attacks Russia.*7 February-8 February - Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat....
).
Full date unknown
- Louis Aubert-RocheLouis Aubert-RocheLouis Rémy Aubert-Roche was a French physician born in Vitry-le-François. He was an authority on contagious diseases and medical officer at the construction of the Suez Canal....
, physician (b.18101810 in FranceSee also:1809 in France,other events of 1810,1811 in France.----Events from the year 1810 in France.-Events:*6 January - Treaty of Paris ends war between France and Sweden....
). - Jean CruveilhierJean CruveilhierJean Cruveilhier was a French anatomist and pathologist.In 1816 he earned his doctorate in Paris, where in 1825 he succeeded Pierre Augustin Béclard as professor of anatomy...
, anatomist (b.1791). - Jean Louis Marie Eugène DurieuJean Louis Marie Eugène DurieuJean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu was an early French photographer of nudes, known for making studies for Eugène Delacroix. Some of Durieu's nudes were used by Delacroix to creating his own paintings and drawings....
, photographer (b.18001800 in FranceSee also:1799 in France,other events of 1800,1801 in France.----Events from the year 1800 in France.-Events:*January - Constitutional Referendum held which ratified a new constitution.*13 February - Foundation of the Banque de France....
). - Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de PontécoulantPhilippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de PontécoulantPhilippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant was a French astronomer.He was the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant and was the brother of Louis-Adolphe Pontécoulant. After 1811 he served in the army until 1849...
, astronomer (b.17951795 in FranceSee also:1794 in France,other events of 1795,1796 in France.----Events from the year 1795 in France.-Events:*16 January - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.*17 January - Revolution breaks out in Amsterdam....
). - Brutus de VilleroiBrutus de VilleroiBrutus de Villeroi was a French engineer of the 19th century, born as Brutus Villeroi in the city of Tours and soon moved to Nantes, who developed some of the first operational submarines, and the first submarine of the United States Navy, the Alligator in 1862.-Villeroi's first submarine :In...
, submarineSubmarineA submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
engineer (b.17941794 in FranceSee also:1793 in France,other events of 1794,1795 in France.----Events from the year 1794 in France.-Events:*4 February - The French Republic abolishes slavery....
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