1888 in France
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1887 in France
1887 in France
See also:1886 in France,other events of 1887,1888 in France.----Events from the year 1887 in France.-Events:*11 January - Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the French Academy of Medicine by Dr...

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other events of 1888,
1889 in France
1889 in France
See also:1888 in France,other events of 1889,1890 in France.----Events from the year 1889 in France.-Events:*31 March - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.*6 May - Exposition Universelle opens in Paris, along with the Eiffel Tower....

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Events from the year 1888 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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Events

  • 14 October - Louis Le Prince
    Louis Le Prince
    Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was an inventor who is considered by many film historians as the true father of motion pictures, who shot the first moving pictures on paper film using a single lens camera....

     films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene
    Roundhay Garden Scene
    Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short film directed by inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second, runs for 2.11 seconds and is the oldest surviving film.-Overview:...

    in Roundhay
    Roundhay
    Roundhay is a large suburb and City Council ward of north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, largely within the LS8 postcode. The ward boundary is the A6120 ring road on the north and the A58 Wetherby Road on the south and east. The boundary follows Gledhow Valley Road to the west before heading...

    , Leeds
    Leeds
    Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

    , West Yorkshire
    West Yorkshire
    West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

    , UK. Followed by his movie Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.

January to March

  • 8 January - Pierre Wertheimer
    Pierre Wertheimer
    Pierre Wertheimer was a French businessman.In October 1910, Pierre Wertheimer married Germaine Revel, a daughter of a stockbroker and a member of the Lazard family of investment bankers....

    , businessman and racehorse owner (d.1965
    1965 in France
    See also:1964 in France,other events of 1965,1966 in France.----Events from the year 1965 in France.-Events:*5 January - Launch of the Renault 16, the world's first production hatchback car.*14 March - Municipal elections held....

    ).
  • 9 January - Alfred Plé
    Alfred Plé
    Alfred Plé was a French rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he won the bronze medal with his partner Gaston Giran in the double sculls event.-External links:*...

    , rower
    Rowing (sport)
    Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

     and Olympic medallist (d.1980
    1980 in France
    See also:1979 in France,other events of 1980,1981 in France.----Events from the year 1980 in France.-Sport:*26 June - Tour de France begins.*21 July - Tour de France ends, won by Joop Zoetemelk of the Netherlands.-January to March:...

    ).
  • 20 January - Georges Marrane
    Georges Marrane
    Georges Marrane was a French politician. He was the candidate of the French Communist Party for the presidential election of 1958....

    , politician (d.1976
    1976 in France
    See also:1975 in France,other events of 1976,1977 in France.----Events from the year 1976 in France.-Events:*21 January - The first commercial Concorde flight takes off.*7 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 4 February - Georges Girard
    Georges Girard
    Georges Girard was a French bacteriologist who was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1911 he received his Bachelor's degree, and in 1914 his medical doctorate...

    , bacteriologist (d.1985
    1985 in France
    See also:1984 in France,other events of 1985,1986 in France.----Events from the year 1985 in France.-Events:*10 March - Cantonales Elections held.*17 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 20 February - Georges Bernanos
    Georges Bernanos
    Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.-Biography:Bernanos was born at Paris, into a family of...

    , author (d.1948
    1948 in France
    See also:1947 in France,other events of 1948,1949 in France.----Events from the year 1948 in France.-Events:*17 March - Treaty of Brussels, is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, aimed mainly at defending against possible German rearmament.*5 September -...

    ).
  • 28 February - Eugène Bigot
    Eugène Bigot
    Eugène Bigot was a French composer and conductor. He also taught at the Conservatoire de Paris where his notable pupils included Émilien Allard, Louis de Froment, Henri-Claude Fantapié, António Fortunato de Figueiredo, Karel Husa, Paul Kuentz, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Pierre Rolland, and Mikis...

    , composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     and conductor
    Conducting
    Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

     (d.1965
    1965 in France
    See also:1964 in France,other events of 1965,1966 in France.----Events from the year 1965 in France.-Events:*5 January - Launch of the Renault 16, the world's first production hatchback car.*14 March - Municipal elections held....

    ).
  • 17 March - Henri Gance
    Henri Gance
    Henri Gance was a French weightlifter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.- References :...

    , weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1983
    1983 in France
    See also:1982 in France,other events of 1983,1984 in France.----Events from the year 1983 in France.-Events:*19 January - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia....

    ).

April to June

  • 1 April - Lucien Callamand
    Lucien Callamand
    Lucien Callamand born Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand was one of the earliest French film actors whose career transcended 6 decades of French cinema....

    , actor (d.1968
    1968 in France
    See also:1967 in France,other events of 1968,1969 in France.----Events from the year 1968 in France-Events:*27 January - French submarine sinks in the Mediterranean with 52 men on board....

    ).
  • 2 April - Roger Ducret
    Roger Ducret
    Roger Ducret was a French fencer and olympic champion.He received three gold medals at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, in foil individual, in foil team, and in épée team.-See also:...

    , fencer
    Fencing
    Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

     and Olympic gold medallist (d.1962
    1962 in France
    See also:1961 in France,other events of 1962,1963 in France.----Events from the year 1962 in France.-Events:*5 February – President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence....

    ).
  • 14 May - Lucien Berland
    Lucien Berland
    Lucien Berland was a French entomologist and an arachnologist- Partial list of publications :* 1925 : Faune de France...

    , entomologist and arachnologist
    Arachnology
    Arachnology is the scientific study of spiders and related animals such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, collectively called arachnids. However, the study of ticks and mites is sometimes not included in arachnology, but is called Acarology...

     (d.1962
    1962 in France
    See also:1961 in France,other events of 1962,1963 in France.----Events from the year 1962 in France.-Events:*5 February – President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence....

    ).
  • 15 May - Jean Wahl
    Jean Wahl
    Jean André Wahl was a French philosopher.-Early career:He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the U.S...

    , philosopher (d.1974
    1974 in France
    See also:1973 in France,other events of 1974,1975 in France.----Events from the year 1974 in France.-Events:*1 March - Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as Prime Minister of France....

    ).
  • 27 May - Louis Durey
    Louis Durey
    -Life:Louis Durey was born in Paris, the son of a local businessman. It was not until he was nineteen years old that he chose to pursue a musical career after hearing a performance of a Claude Debussy work. As a composer he was primarily self-taught. From the beginning, choral music was of great...

    , composer (d.1979
    1979 in France
    See also:1978 in France,other events of 1979,1980 in France.----Events from the year 1979 in France.-Events:*8 January - French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland; 50 are killed....

    ).
  • 5 June - Armand Léon Annet
    Armand Léon Annet
    Armand Léon Annet was a Governor for various colonies in French Colonial Empire.- Life :Annet was born in Paris....

    , colonial governor (d.1973
    1973 in France
    See also:1972 in France,other events of 1973,1974 in France.----Events from the year 1973 in France.-Events:*4 March - Legislative Election held.*11 March - Legislative Election held....

    ).

July to December

  • 14 July - Jacques de Lacretelle
    Jacques de Lacretelle
    Jacques de Lacretelle was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on November 12, 1936.-Bibliography:* 1920 La vie inquiète de Jean Hermelin...

    , novelist (d.1985
    1985 in France
    See also:1984 in France,other events of 1985,1986 in France.----Events from the year 1985 in France.-Events:*10 March - Cantonales Elections held.*17 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 26 July - Marcel Jouhandeau
    Marcel Jouhandeau
    Marcel Jouhandeau was a French writer.-Biography:Marcel Jouhandeau grew up in a world of women presided over by his grandmother. Under the influence of a young woman from the Carmel of Limoges, he embraced a mystical form of Catholicism and for a time thought to enter the orders...

    , writer (d.1979
    1979 in France
    See also:1978 in France,other events of 1979,1980 in France.----Events from the year 1979 in France.-Events:*8 January - French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland; 50 are killed....

    ).
  • 31 July - Jean Moreau
    Jean Moreau
    Jean Moreau was a French politician.He belonged first to the Republican Party of Liberty , then to the Independent Republicans and then to the National Centre of Independents and Peasants . During 1953, he was France minister of Budget for a few months....

    , politician (d.1972
    1972 in France
    See also:1971 in France,other events of 1972,1973 in France.----Events from the year 1972 in France.-Events:*January - Launch of the Renault 5, one of the world's first small hatchbacks....

    ).
  • 12 September - Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, entertainer and a noted Sprechgesang performer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including Louise, Mimi, Valentine, and Thank Heaven for Little Girls and for his films including The Love Parade and The Big Pond...

    , actor and singer (d.1972
    1972 in France
    See also:1971 in France,other events of 1972,1973 in France.----Events from the year 1972 in France.-Events:*January - Launch of the Renault 5, one of the world's first small hatchbacks....

    ).
  • 16 September - Lucien Lamoureux
    Lucien Lamoureux (France)
    Lucien Lamoureux was a French politician. He a belonged to the Radical Party. At various times in the 1930s, he was the French Minister of Colonies, Work, Trade, and Budget....

    , politician and Minister (d.1970
    1970 in France
    See also:1969 in France,other events of 1970,1971 in France.----Events from the year 1970 in France.-Events:*10 February - An avalanche at Val d'Isère kills 39 tourists.*8 March - Cantonales Elections held.*15 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 24 September - Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
    Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
    Georges Jean Marie Darrieus was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He is perhaps most famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.The invention is...

    , aeronautical engineer
    Aerospace engineering
    Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is divided into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering...

     (d.1979
    1979 in France
    See also:1978 in France,other events of 1979,1980 in France.----Events from the year 1979 in France.-Events:*8 January - French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland; 50 are killed....

    ).
  • 30 September - Louis Lecoin
    Louis Lecoin
    Louis Lecoin, Louis Lecoin, Louis Lecoin, (b. 30 September 1888, Saint-Amand-Montrond in the Cher département, d. 1971, was a militant anarcho-pacifist. He was at the center of the foundation of the Union pacifiste de France.- Biography :...

    , militant
    Militant
    The word militant, which is both an adjective and a noun, usually is used to mean vigorously active, combative and aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in 'militant reformers'. It comes from the 15th century Latin "militare" meaning "to serve as a soldier"...

     pacifist (d.1971
    1971 in France
    See also:1970 in France,other events of 1971,1972 in France.----Events from the year 1971 in France.-Events:*14 March - Municipal elections held.*21 March - Municipal elections held....

    ).
  • 6 October - Roland Garros, aviator and World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     fighter pilot (d.1918
    1918 in France
    See also:1917 in France,other events of 1918,1919 in France.----Events from the year 1918 in France.-Events:*21 March - Second Battle of the Somme begins....

    ).
  • 9 November - Jean Monnet
    Jean Monnet
    Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French political economist and diplomat. He is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity and is regarded as one of its founding fathers...

    , architect of European Unity (d.1979
    1979 in France
    See also:1978 in France,other events of 1979,1980 in France.----Events from the year 1979 in France.-Events:*8 January - French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland; 50 are killed....

    ).
  • 16 December - Alphonse Juin
    Alphonse Juin
    - Early years :Juin was born at Bône in French Algeria, and enlisted in the French Army, graduating from the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1912.- Career :...

    , Marshal of France
    Marshal of France
    The Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...

     (d.1967
    1967 in France
    See also:1966 in France,other events of 1967,1968 in France.----Events from the year 1967 in France.-Events:*5 March - Legislative Election held.*12 March - Legislative Election held....

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Louis Antoine
    Louis Antoine
    Louis Antoine was a French mathematician who discovered Antoine's necklace, which J. W. Alexander used to construct Antoine's horned sphere....

    , mathematician (d.1971
    1971 in France
    See also:1970 in France,other events of 1971,1972 in France.----Events from the year 1971 in France.-Events:*14 March - Municipal elections held.*21 March - Municipal elections held....

    ).
  • Georges Bénézé
    Georges Bénézé
    Georges Bénézé was a French philosopherBénézé was a disciple and editor of Alain. He taught Hegel to Jean Hippolyte at the lycée in Poitiers.-Works:*Allure du transcendental, 1936*Valeu. Essai d'une théorie générale, 1936...

    , philosopher (d.1978
    1978 in France
    See also:1977 in France,other events of 1978,1979 in France.----Events from the year 1978 in France.-Events:*1 February - Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.*12 March - Legislative...

    ).
  • Stéphane Boudin
    Stéphane Boudin
    Stéphane Boudin was a French interior designer and a president of Maison Jansen, the influential Paris-based interior decorating firm.Boudin is best known for being asked by U.S...

    , interior designer (d.1967
    1967 in France
    See also:1966 in France,other events of 1967,1968 in France.----Events from the year 1967 in France.-Events:*5 March - Legislative Election held.*12 March - Legislative Election held....

    ).
  • Léonce Crenier
    Léonce Crenier
    Léonce Crenier was a Catholic monk who promoted the theological/political concept of Precarity.-Early years:Léonce Crenier was born in Ceton, a small village of the diocese of Séez, in Savoie, France, July 31, 1888...

    , Roman Catholic monk
    Monk
    A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

     and theologian (d.1963
    1963 in France
    See also:1962 in France,other events of 1963,1964 in France.----Events from the year 1963 in France.-Events:*22 January - Élysée Treaty signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer....

    ).
  • Francois Dupre
    François Dupré
    François Dupré was a French, hotelier, art collector, and owner of the thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm, Haras d'Ouilly....

    , hotelier
    Hotel
    A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...

    , art collector and horse breeder (d.1966
    1966 in France
    See also:1965 in France,other events of 1966,1967 in France.----Events from the year 1966 in France.-Events:*4 January - A gas leak fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon, kills 18 and injures 84....

    ).
  • Camille Le Mercier d'Erm
    Camille Le Mercier d'Erm
    Camille Le Mercier d'Erm was a French poet, historian and Breton nationalist. He later adopted the neo-Bardic name Kammermor. He is also known as Kamil Ar Merser 'Erm, the Breton language form of his name...

    , poet, historian and Breton nationalist (d.1978
    1978 in France
    See also:1977 in France,other events of 1978,1979 in France.----Events from the year 1978 in France.-Events:*1 February - Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.*12 March - Legislative...

    ).
  • René Massigli
    René Massigli
    René Massigli was a French diplomat who played a leading as a senior official at the Quai d'Orsay, and was regarded as one of the leading French experts on Germany.-Early career:...

    , diplomat (d.1988
    1988 in France
    See also:1987 in France,other events of 1988,1989 in France.----Events from the year 1988 in France.-Events:*29 March - African National Congress representative Dulcie September assassinated in Paris.*24 April - Presidential Election held....

    ).
  • Henri Pequet
    Henri Pequet
    Henri Pequet was a pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18, 1911. The 23 year old Frenchman, in India for an airshow, delivered about 6,500 letters when he flew from Allahabad to Naini, about 10 kilometers away...

    , pilot, flew first official airmail
    Airmail
    Airmail is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send...

     flight in 1911 (d.1974
    1974 in France
    See also:1973 in France,other events of 1974,1975 in France.----Events from the year 1974 in France.-Events:*1 March - Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as Prime Minister of France....

    ).

Deaths

  • 18 January - Auguste Nicolas
    Auguste Nicolas
    Auguste Nicolas was a French Roman Catholic apologetical writer.-Life:Nicolas was born at Bordeaux. He first studied law, was admitted as an advocate and entered the magistracy. From 1841-49 he was justice of the peace at Bordeaux.From 1842 he began the publication of his apologetical writings...

    , Roman Catholic apologetical writer (b.1807
    1807 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 23 January - Eugène Marin Labiche
    Eugène Marin Labiche
    Eugène Marin Labiche was a French dramatist.-Biography:He was born into a bourgeois family and studied law. At the age of twenty, he contributed a short story to Chérubin magazine, entitled Les plus belles sont les plus fausses. A few others followed , but failed to catch the attention of the...

    , dramatist (b.1815
    1815 in France
    See also:1814 in France,other events of 1815,1816 in France.----Events from the year 1815 in France.-Events:*3 January - Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia....

    ).
  • 13 February - Jean-Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the southwestern region of the United States in the state of New Mexico. While the motherchurch, the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, is in the City of Santa Fe, its administrative center is in...

     (b.1814
    1814 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 20 February - François Perrier
    François Perrier
    Francois Perrier was a French soldier and geodesist.Perrier was born at Valleraugue , , descended from a family of Protestants, of Cevennes. After finishing his studies at the Lyceum of Nimes and at St...

    , general and geodesist
    Geodesy
    Geodesy , also named geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space. Geodesists also study geodynamical phenomena such as crustal...

     (b.1835
    1835 in France
    See also:1834 in France,other events of 1835,1836 in France.----Events from the year 1835 in France.-Events:*The French word for their language changes to français, from françois....

    ).
  • 22 February - Jean-Delphin Alard, violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

    ist (b.1815
    1815 in France
    See also:1814 in France,other events of 1815,1816 in France.----Events from the year 1815 in France.-Events:*3 January - Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia....

    ).
  • 15 March - Léonard Morel-Ladeuil
    Léonard Morel-Ladeuil
    Léonard Morel-Ladeuil , French goldsmith and sculptor, was born at Clermont-Ferrand.He was apprenticed first to Morel, a manufacturer of bronzes, under whom he became one of the most expert chasers, or ciseleurs, in France, and then to Antoine Vechte, to acquire the art of repoussé--the art in...

    , goldsmith
    Goldsmith
    A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...

     and sculptor
    Sculpture
    Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

     (b.1820
    1820 in France
    See also:1819 in France,other events of 1820,1821 in France.----Events from the year 1820 in France.-Events:*4 November - Legislative election held.*13 November - Legislative election held.-Births:...

    ).
  • 16 March - Hippolyte Carnot
    Hippolyte Carnot
    Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French statesman.- Early life :Lazare was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon. He was born at Saint-Omer,...

    , statesman (b.1801
    1801 in France
    See also:1800 in France,other events of 1801,1802 in France.----Events from the year 1801 in France.-Events:*9 February - Treaty of Lunéville signed between the French First Republic and the Holy Roman Empire, ending the war with Austria....

    ).
  • 29 March - Charles-Valentin Alkan
    Charles-Valentin Alkan
    Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...

    , composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     and pianist
    Pianist
    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

     (b.1813
    1813 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 1 April - Jules Émile Planchon
    Jules Émile Planchon
    Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.-Biography:After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent...

    , botanist (b.1823
    1823 in France
    See also:1822 in France,other events of 1823,1824 in France.----Events from the year 1823 in France.-Events:*17 April - French forces, authorised by the Congress of Verona, enter Spain following the capture of Ferdinand VII of Spain by armed revolutionary liberals.*23 May - Rebel government...

    ).
  • 11 April - Louis-Frédéric Brugère
    Louis-Frédéric Brugère
    Louis-Frédéric Brugère was a Roman Catholic professor of apologetics and church history.He studied with the Christian Brothers at St. Euverte, and at the Petit Séminaire of Orléans. His poem of 300 lines describing an inundation of the Rhône and composed in 1841 was printed and sold for the...

    , professor of apologetics
    Apologetics
    Apologetics is the discipline of defending a position through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers...

     and church history (b.1823
    1823 in France
    See also:1822 in France,other events of 1823,1824 in France.----Events from the year 1823 in France.-Events:*17 April - French forces, authorised by the Congress of Verona, enter Spain following the capture of Ferdinand VII of Spain by armed revolutionary liberals.*23 May - Rebel government...

    ).
  • 14 July - Antoine Étex
    Antoine Étex
    Antoine Étex was a French sculptor, painter and architect. He was born in Paris.He first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his "Death of Hyacinthus", and the plaster cast of his "Cain and his race cursed by God"...

    , sculptor
    Sculpture
    Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

    , painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     (b.1808
    1808 in France
    See also:1807 in France,other events of 1808,1809 in France.----Events from the year 1808 in France.-Events:*22 January - The Bragança Portuguese Royal Family arrives in Brazil, having fled the French army....

    ).
  • 9 August - Charles Cros
    Charles Cros
    Charles Cros was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France, 35 km to the East of Carcassonne....

    , poet and inventor (b.1842
    1842 in France
    See also:1841 in France,other events of 1842,1843 in France.----Events from the year 1842 in France.-Events:*8 May - Versailles train crash at Meudon, results in the deaths of at least 55 passengers.*9 July - Legislative election held....

    ).

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  • Pierre Bossan
    Pierre Bossan
    Pierre-Marie Bossan was a French historicist architect, a pupil of Henri Labrouste, specialising in ecclesiastical architecture. In 1844 he was appointed architect to the diocese of Lyon, where his major work was the neo-Byzantine basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière , on a height dominating Lyon...

    , architect (b.1814
    1814 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • Arsène Darmesteter
    Arsène Darmesteter
    Arsène Darmesteter was a distinguished philologist and man of letters.He studied under Gaston Paris at the École des Hautes Etudes, and became professor of Old French language and literature at the Sorbonne. His Life of Words appeared in English in 1888...

    , philologist (b.1846
    1846 in France
    See also:1845 in France,other events of 1846,1847 in France.----Events from the year 1846 in France.-Events:*1 August - Legislative election held for the seventh legislature of the July Monarchy.-Births:...

    ).
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