1895 in France
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1894 in France
1894 in France
See also:1893 in France,other events of 1894,1895 in France.----Events from the year 1894 in France.-Events:* 15 February - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, England with a bomb.* 14 May - Meteor shower in Southern France.* 22...

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other events of 1895,
1896 in France
1896 in France
See also:1895 in France,other events of 1896,1897 in France.----Events from the year 1897 in France.-January to June:*4 January - André Masson, artist .*19 February - André Breton, writer, poet, and surrealist theorist ....

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Events from the year 1895 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

  • 5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus
    Alfred Dreyfus
    Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history...

     takes place on the Champ de Mars
    Champ de Mars
    The Champ de Mars is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in the seventh arrondissement, between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The park is named after the Campus Martius in Rome, a tribute to the Roman god of war...

    , Paris
    Paris
    Paris 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...

    .
  • 17 January - Félix Faure
    Félix Faure
    Félix François Faure was President of France from 1895 until his death.-Biography:Félix François Faure was born in Paris, the son of a small furniture maker...

     was elected President of French Republic after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier
    Jean Casimir-Perier
    Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier was a French politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic.-Biography:He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe...

    .
  • 17 January - Dreyfus is moved into a military reformatory on the island of Ré.
  • 21 February - Dreyfus is put on board ship to be exiled.
  • 15 March - Dreyfus is landed on Devil's Island.

January to June

  • 29 January - Pierre Gaxotte
    Pierre Gaxotte
    -Biography:Gaxotte was born in Revigny-sur-Ornain, Meuse. He began his career as a history teacher at the Lycée Charlemagne and later worked as a columnist for Le Figaro...

    , historian (d.1982
    1982 in France
    See also:1981 in France,other events of 1982,1983 in France.----Events from the year 1982 in France.-Events:*14 March – Cantonales Elections held.*21 March – Cantonales Elections held.*4 July – 8th G7 summit begins in Versailles....

    ).
  • 11 February - Maurice Cottenet
    Maurice Cottenet
    Maurice Cottenet was a French footballer. He was part of France national football team squad at the 1924 Summer Olympics.-References:*...

    , soccer player (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....

    ).
  • 28 February - Marcel Pagnol
    Marcel Pagnol
    Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française.-Biography:...

    , novelist, playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    , and filmmaker (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....

    ).
  • 2 March - Marcel Carpentier, military officer (d.1977
    1977 in France
    See also:1976 in France,other events of 1977,1978 in France.----Events from the year 1977 in France.-Events:*13 March - Municipal Elections held.*20 March - Municipal Elections held....

    ).
  • 20 March - Robert Benoist
    Robert Benoist
    Robert Marcel Charles Benoist was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero.-Early life:Born near Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France, Robert Benoist was the son of Baron Henri de Rothschild's gamekeeper...

    , motor racing driver and war hero (executed) (d.1944
    1944 in France
    See also:1943 in France,other events of 1944,1945 in France.----Events from the year 1944 in France.-Events:*15 March - The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme....

    ).
  • 30 March - Père Marie-Benoît
    Père Marie-Benoît
    Père Marie-Benoît , born Pierre Péteul, was a Capuchin Franciscan friar who helped smuggle approximately 4,000 Jews into safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France...

    , friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France
    Southern France
    Southern France , colloquially known as le Midi is defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy...

     (d.1990
    1990 in France
    See also:1989 in France,other events of 1990,1991 in France.----Events from the year 1990 in France.-Events:*15 May - Launch of the Renault Clio supermini, which will eventually replace the Renault 5....

    ).
  • 30 March - Jean Giono
    Jean Giono
    Jean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction set in the Provence region of France.-First period:...

    , author (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....

    ).
  • 5 April - Fernand Mourlot
    Fernand Mourlot
    Fernand Mourlot , son of Jules Mourlot, was the director of Mourlot Studios and founder of Editions Mourlot.- Early life and career :...

    , printer and publisher (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....

    ).
  • 3 May - Gabriel Chevallier
    Gabriel Chevallier
    Gabriel Chevallier was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire Clochemerle.Born in Lyon in 1895, Gabriel Chevallier was educated in various schools before entering Lyon École des Beaux-Arts in 1911...

    , novelist (d.1969
    1969 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 4 May - René Mayer
    René Mayer
    René Mayer was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. He led the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958.-Mayer's Ministry, 8 January – 28 June 1953:*René Mayer – President of the Council...

    , politician and Prime Minister of France
    Prime Minister of France
    The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...

     (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....

    ).
  • 11 May - Jacques Brugnon
    Jacques Brugnon
    Jacques "Toto" Brugnon was a French tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.He was born in Paris and died in Paris....

    , tennis player (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...

    ).
  • 9 June - Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    , film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     and producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

     (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....

    ).

July to September

  • 2 July - Gen Paul
    Gen Paul
    Gen Paul , was a French painter and engraver.-Biography:Born as Eugène Paul in a house in Montmartre on the Rue Lepic painted by Van Gogh, he began drawing and painting as a child. His father died when he was only ten years old and Gen Paul was trained to work in decorative furnishings...

    , painter and engraver (d.1975
    1975 in France
    See also:1974 in France,other events of 1975,1976 in France.----Events from the year 1975 in France.-Events:*1 January - Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel....

    ).
  • 7 August - Alain Saint-Ogan
    Alain Saint-Ogan
    Alain Saint-Ogan was a French comics author and artist.-Biography:In 1925, he created the well-known comic strip Zig et Puce , which initially appeared in the Dimanche Illustré , the weekly youth supplement of the French daily newspaper, l'Excelsior.His other comic...

    , comics author and artist
    Comics artist
    A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...

     (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....

    ).
  • 18 September - Jean Batmale
    Jean Batmale
    Jean Batmale was a professional French footballer. He played for France national football team at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.-References:*...

    , soccer player (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....

    ).
  • 24 September - André Frédéric Cournand
    André Frédéric Cournand
    André Frédéric Cournand was a French physician and physiologist.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization.Born in Paris, Cournand emigrated to the United States in 1930 and,...

    , physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

     and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     in 1956 (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....

    ).

October to December

  • 9 October - René Lasserre
    René Lasserre
    Félix "René" Lasserre was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Bayonne and died in Saint-Avold.In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team....

    , rugby union player (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....

    ).
  • 3 November - Pierre Richard-Willm
    Pierre Richard-Willm
    Pierre Richard-Willm was a French actor during the 1930s and 1940s.-Biography:Richard-Willm was born in south-western France in the city of Bayonne. His mother, Elisabeth-Fanny Willm, died at the age of thirty-one, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother...

    , actor (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....

    ).
  • 5 November - Walter Gieseking
    Walter Gieseking
    Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer.-Biography:Born in Lyon, France, the son of a German doctor and lepidopterist, Gieseking first started playing the piano at the age of four, but without formal instruction...

    , pianist and composer (d.1956
    1956 in France
    See also:1955 in France,other events of 1956,1957 in France.----Events from the year 1956 in France.-Events:*2 January - Legislative Election held.*2 March - Morocco declares its independence from France....

    ).
  • 20 November - Pierre Cot
    Pierre Cot
    .Pierre Cot , French politician, was a leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s...

    , politician (d.1977
    1977 in France
    See also:1976 in France,other events of 1977,1978 in France.----Events from the year 1977 in France.-Events:*13 March - Municipal Elections held.*20 March - Municipal Elections held....

    ).
  • 20 November - Germain Jousse
    Germain Jousse
    Germain Jousse , was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.-World War I:...

    , member of the French Resistance
    French Resistance
    The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

     (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....

    ).
  • 27 November - Pierre-Paul Grassé
    Pierre-Paul Grassé
    Pierre-Paul Grassé, born on November 27, 1895 in Périgueux and died on July 9, 1985, was a French zoologist, author of over 300 publications including the influential 35-volume Traité de Zoologie. He was an expert on termites.- Studies :...

    , zoologist (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....

    ).
  • 29 November - Edgard de Larminat
    Edgard de Larminat
    Edgard de Larminat was a French general, who fought in two World Wars. He was one of the most important military figures who rejoined the Free French forces in 1940...

    , General (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 December - Paul Éluard
    Paul Éluard
    Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel , was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.-Biography:...

    , poet (d.1952
    1952 in France
    See also:1951 in France,other events of 1952,1953 in France.----Events from the year 1952 in France.-Events:*25 February - Battle of Hoa Binh ends in defeat for French forces by the Viet Minh in Vietnam....

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Roger Blaizot
    Roger Blaizot
    Roger Charles André Henri Blaizot was a French military leader, who commanded French forces during the World War II and the First Indochina War. Blaizot served in Indochina through the last two years of the World War II, having been sent to command the Far East French Expeditionary Forces by...

    , General (d.1981
    1981 in France
    See also:1980 in France,other events of 1981,1982 in France.----Events from the year 1981 in France.-Events:*24 April - French presidential election: A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand....

    ).
  • Albert Gilles
    Albert Gilles
    Albert Gilles was a French coppersmith.-Biography:He was born in Paris and mastered the art of sheet metal embossing at a young age before crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the 1930s to ply his trade in North America....

    , copper
    Copper
    Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...

     craftsman
    Artisan
    An artisan is a skilled manual worker who makes items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewellery, household items, and tools...

     (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....

    ).
  • Marguerite Huré
    Marguerite Huré
    Marguerite Huré was a French stained glass artist. She is considered to be the artist who introduced abstraction into French religious glassmaking.Huré first studied with glass artist Émile Ader before founding her own atelier in 1920...

    , stained glass
    Stained glass
    The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...

     artist (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....

    ).
  • Ernest Labrousse
    Ernest Labrousse
    Camille-Ernest Labrousse was a French historian specializing in social and economic history.Labrousse established a historical model centered on three nodes—economic, social and cultural—inventing the quantitative history sometimes now called "cliometrics"...

    , historian (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....

    ).
  • Marcel LaFosse
    Marcel LaFosse
    Marcel Lafosse was a French musician and trumpeter with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Alexandre Petit, and was first Accésit in the Conservatory Prix in 1911. Petit wrote for him the last of the 12 Grandes Études. Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky brought...

    , musician and trumpeter (d.1969
    1969 in France
    See 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....

    ).

January to June

  • 10 January - Benjamin Godard
    Benjamin Godard
    Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic composer.-Biography:Born in Paris, Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps and Napoléon Henri Reber and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany...

    , 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 and 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...

     (b.1849
    1849 in France
    See also:1848 in France,other events of 1849,1850 in France.----Events from the year 1849 in France.-Events:*1 January - France's first postage stamp, Ceres, is issued....

    ).
  • 29 January - Charles Frédéric Girard
    Charles Frédéric Girard
    Charles Frédéric Girard was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.Born in Mulhouse, France, he studied at the College of Neuchâtel, Switzerland as a student of Louis Agassiz. In 1847, he accompanied Agassiz as his assistant to Harvard...

    , biologist
    Biologist
    A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

     (b.1822
    1822 in France
    See also:1821 in France,other events of 1822,1823 in France.----Events from the year 1822 in France.-Events:*20 October - Congress of Verona, at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain....

    ).
  • 16 February - André Garin
    André Garin
    André Garin was an Oblate missionary and parish priest.He was born in La Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France. He received his education at the lesser seminary of his native town, and entered the Order of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on November 1, 1842...

    , missionary and parish priest (b.1822
    1822 in France
    See also:1821 in France,other events of 1822,1823 in France.----Events from the year 1822 in France.-Events:*20 October - Congress of Verona, at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain....

    ).
  • 19 February - Auguste Vacquerie
    Auguste Vacquerie
    Auguste Vacquerie was a French journalist and man of letters.-Biography:Vacquerie was born at Villequier on 19 November 1819. He was from his earliest days an admirer of Victor Hugo, with whom he was connected by the marriage of his brother Charles with Léopoldine Hugo...

    , journalist and man of letters (b.1819
    1819 in France
    See also:1818 in France,other events of 1819,1820 in France.----Events from the year 1819 in France.-January to June:*1 March - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, Archbishop of Paris ....

    ).
  • 22 April - Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
    Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
    Étienne Léopold Trouvelot was a French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist. He is most noted for the unfortunate introduction of the Gypsy Moth into North America....

    , artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

    , astronomer
    Astronomer
    An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

     and amateur entomologist, introduced the Gypsy Moth
    Gypsy moth
    The gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, is a moth in the family Lymantriidae of Eurasian origin. Originally ranging from Europe to Asia, it was introduced to North America in the late 1860s and has been expanding its range ever since...

     into North America
    North America
    North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

     (b.1827
    1827 in France
    See also:1826 in France,other events of 1827,1828 in France.----Events from the year 1827 in France.-Events:*April - Ottoman Algeria: Husain Dei slaps the French consul, Decalina, on the face, eventually leading to war and French rule in Algeria....

    ).
  • 11 May - Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie
    Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie
    Abbé Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie was professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique in Paris, and writer on apologetic subjects....

    , 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...

     (b.1834
    1834 in France
    See also:1833 in France,other events of 1834,1835 in France.----Events from the year 1834 in France.-Events:*26 February - Treaty of Desmichels signed between Abd-el-Kader and France, recognising him as the independent sovereign ruler of the province of Oran in Algeria.*21 June - Legislative...

    ).
  • 22 May - Claude Marie Dubuis
    Claude Marie Dubuis
    Claude Marie Dubuis was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Galveston from 1862 to 1892....

    , second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

     (b.1817
    1817 in France
    See also:1816 in France,other events of 1817,1818 in France.----Events from the year 1817 in France.-Births:*2 January - François Chabas, egyptologist .*3 February - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist ....

    ).
  • 28 May - Albert L'Ouvrier
    Albert L'Ouvrier
    Albert l'Ouvrier , born Alexandre Martin , was a French socialist statesman of the French Second Republic. He was the first member of the industrial working class to be in French government....

    , socialist
    Socialism
    Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...

     statesman
    Statesman
    A statesman is usually a politician or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career in politics or government at the national and international level. As a term of respect, it is usually left to supporters or commentators to use the term...

     (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....

    ).

July to December

  • 19 July - Henri Ernest Baillon
    Henri Ernest Baillon
    Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...

    , botanist and physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

     (b.1827
    1827 in France
    See also:1826 in France,other events of 1827,1828 in France.----Events from the year 1827 in France.-Events:*April - Ottoman Algeria: Husain Dei slaps the French consul, Decalina, on the face, eventually leading to war and French rule in Algeria....

    ).
  • 28 September - Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...

    , chemist
    Chemist
    A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

     and microbiologist (b.1822
    1822 in France
    See also:1821 in France,other events of 1822,1823 in France.----Events from the year 1822 in France.-Events:*20 October - Congress of Verona, at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain....

    ).
  • 24 November - Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
    Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
    Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire was a French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France.- Biography :...

    , philosopher, journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and statesman (b.1805
    1805 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 27 November - Alexandre Dumas, fils
    Alexandre Dumas, fils
    Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French author and dramatist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, also a writer and playwright.-Biography:...

    , writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

     and playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

     (b.1824
    1824 in France
    See also:1823 in France,other events of 1824,1825 in France.----Events from the year 1824 in France.-Events:*25 February - Legislative election held.*6 March - Legislative election held....

    ).
  • 11 December - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut
    Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut
    Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut , was a French critic.He was born at Limoges. He began to write for the Revue des deux mondes in 1847, contributing between 1851 and 1857 a series of articles on the English and American novel, and in 1857 he became chief literary critic of the review...

    , critic (b.1825
    1825 in France
    See also:1824 in France,other events of 1825,1826 in France.----Events from the year 1825 in France.-Events:*January - Anti-Sacrilege Act, law against blasphemy and sacrilege passed under King Charles X...

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Louis-Florentin Calmeil
    Louis-Florentin Calmeil
    Louis-Florentin Calmeil was a French psychiatrist and medical historian born in Yversay. He was an assistant to Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol at Charenton, where he later succeeded Esquirol as director....

    , psychiatrist
    Psychiatrist
    A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

     and medical historian (b.1798
    1798 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
    Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
    Père Jean Marie Delavay was a French missionary, explorer and botanist.He was sent to China in 1867, serving first in Guangdong, then moving to Kunming, Yunnan, where he remained until his death....

    , missionary
    Missionary
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    , explorer and botanist (b.1834
    1834 in France
    See also:1833 in France,other events of 1834,1835 in France.----Events from the year 1834 in France.-Events:*26 February - Treaty of Desmichels signed between Abd-el-Kader and France, recognising him as the independent sovereign ruler of the province of Oran in Algeria.*21 June - Legislative...

    ).
  • Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
    Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
    Mathieu Auguste Geffroy was a French historian born in Paris.After studying at the École Normale Supérieure he held history professorships at various lyceés...

    , historian (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:...

    ).
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