1910 in France
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1909 in France
1909 in France
See also:1908 in France,other events of 1909,1910 in France.----Events from the year 1909 in France.-Events:*20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro....

,
other events of 1910,
1911 in France
1911 in France
See also:1910 in France,other events of 1911,1912 in France.----Events from the year 1911 in France.-Events:*1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir....

.

----

Events from the year 1910 in France.

Events

  • 16 January - Constant rain in Paris causes the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro
    Paris Métro
    The Paris Métro or Métropolitain is the rapid transit metro system in Paris, France. It has become a symbol of the city, noted for its density within the city limits and its uniform architecture influenced by Art Nouveau. The network's sixteen lines are mostly underground and run to 214 km ...

     becomes filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.
  • 24 April - French legislative election
    French legislative election, 1910
    -Popular Vote:-Parliamentary Groups:- Sources :*...

     held.
  • 8 May - French legislative election
    French legislative election, 1910
    -Popular Vote:-Parliamentary Groups:- Sources :*...

     held.
  • 2 July - Demonstrations in France against public executions.
  • Champagne Riots
    Champagne Riots
    The Champagne Riots of 1910 and 1911 resulted from a series of problems faced by grape growers in the Champagne area of France. These included four years of disastrous crop losses, the infestation of the phylloxera louse , low income and the belief that wine merchants were using grapes from outside...

    .

Sport

  • 3 July - The eighth Tour de France
    1910 Tour de France
    The 1910 Tour de France was the 8th Tour de France, taking place 3 July to 31 July 1910. It consisted of 15 stages over , ridden at an average speed of 28.680 km/h. It was the first Tour to enter the Pyrenees mountains. Two main candidates for the victory were 1909 winner François Faber, a...

     begins.
  • 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by Octave Lapize
    Octave Lapize
    Octave Lapize was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels.In his first...

    .

January to March

  • 10 January - Jean Martinon
    Jean Martinon
    Jean Martinon was a French conductor and composer.-Biography:Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire de Paris to study under Albert Roussel for composition, under Charles Munch and Roger Désormière for conducting, under Vincent d'Indy for harmony,...

    , 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...

     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...

     (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....

    ).
  • 25 January - Henri Louveau
    Henri Louveau
    Henri Louveau was a racing driver from France. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 3, 1950. He scored no championship points....

    , motor racing driver (d.1991
    1991 in France
    See also:1990 in France,other events of 1991,1992 in France.----Events from the year 1991 in France.-Events:*16 March - Citroën launches it compact ZX range of hatchbacks and estates...

    ).
  • 9 February - Jacques Monod
    Jacques Monod
    Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"...

    , biologist
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

    , awarded 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 1965 (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....

    ).
  • 14 February - Pierre Marcilhacy
    Pierre Marcilhacy
    Pierre Marcilhacy was a French politician.He was a Senator for the Charente, sitting in the Democratic Left group. He ran against Charles de Gaulle in the French presidential election, 1965 for the European Liberal Party, a small centrist liberal group...

    , politician (d.1987
    1987 in France
    See also:1986 in France,other events of 1987,1988 in France.----Events from the year 1987 in France.-Events:*24 March - The Euro Disneyland Project agreement is signed by The Walt Disney Company and the French government, enabling a theme park to be built to the east of Paris...

    ).
  • 19 February - Mathilde Carré
    Mathilde Carré
    Mathilde Carré , known as "La Chatte", was a French Resistance agent during World War II who turned double agent....

    , 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...

     agent, became a double agent
    Double agent
    A double agent, commonly abbreviated referral of double secret agent, is a counterintelligence term used to designate an employee of a secret service or organization, whose primary aim is to spy on the target organization, but who in fact is a member of that same target organization oneself. They...

     (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....

    ).

April to June

  • 23 April - Simone Simon
    Simone Simon
    Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931.-Early life:Born in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais France, she was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin Champmoynat, a French engineer, airplane pilot in World War II, who died in a concentration camp, and Erma Maria...

    , actress (d.2005
    2005 in France
    See also:2004 in France,other events of 2005,2006 in France.----Events from the year 2005 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Jacques Chirac* Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin then Dominique de Villepin...

    ).
  • 30 April - Pierre Lantier
    Pierre Lantier
    Pierre Lantier was a composer, pianist, and husband of Paule Maurice. Lantier wrote Sicilienne pour saxophone alto et piano.His compositions also include three for piano and orchestra....

    , composer and pianist (d.1998
    1998 in France
    See also:1997 in France,other events of 1998,1999 in France.----Events from the year 1998 in France.-Events:*6 February - The French prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in the streets of Ajaccio, Corsica.*15 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 4 June - Jacques Berque
    Jacques Berque
    Jacques Augustin Berque was a French Islamic scholar and sociologist. His expertise was the decolonisation of Algeria and Morocco.-Biography:...

    , Islamic scholar and sociologist
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

     (d.1995
    1995 in France
    See also:1994 in France,other events of 1995,1996 in France.----Events from the year 1995 in France.-Events:*21 February - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists....

    ).
  • 6 June - Hélène de Beauvoir
    Hélène de Beauvoir
    Henriette-Hélène de Beauvoir was a French painter. She was the younger sister of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Her art was exhibited in Europe, Japan, and the US. She married Lionel de Roulet....

    , painter (d.2001
    2001 in France
    See also:2000 in France,other events of 2001,2002 in France.----Events from the year 2001 in France.-Events:*March - The Renault Vel Satis is launched at the Geneva Motor Show.*8 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 8 June - Fernand Fonssagrives
    Fernand Fonssagrives
    Fernand Fonssagrives born near Paris, France he was a photographer known for his 'beauty photography' in the early 1940s, and as the first husband of the model Lisa Fonssagrives. He died in 2003 at Little Rock, Arkansas....

    , photographer (d.2003
    2003 in France
    See also:2002 in France,other events of 2003,2004 in France.----Events from the year 2003 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Jacques Chirac* Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin* Interior Minister - Nicolas Sarkozy...

    ).
  • 11 June - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...

    , naval officer, explorer
    Exploration
    Exploration is the act of searching or traveling around a terrain for the purpose of discovery of resources or information. Exploration occurs in all non-sessile animal species, including humans...

    , ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher
    Researcher
    A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in general any systematic investigation to establish facts. Researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, or private institutions.-Examples of research institutions:...

     (d.1997
    1997 in France
    See also:1996 in France,other events of 1997,1998 in France.----Events from the year 1997 in France.-Events:*27 January - It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis....

    ).
  • 23 June - Jean Anouilh
    Jean Anouilh
    Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' Classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's...

    , dramatist (d.1987
    1987 in France
    See also:1986 in France,other events of 1987,1988 in France.----Events from the year 1987 in France.-Events:*24 March - The Euro Disneyland Project agreement is signed by The Walt Disney Company and the French government, enabling a theme park to be built to the east of Paris...

    ).
  • 27 June - Pierre Joubert
    Pierre Joubert (illustrator)
    Pierre Joubert was a French illustrator. He was closely associated with the creation of Scouting and the popular look of Boy Scouts in France and Belgium, comparable to the American artist Norman Rockwell.-Biography:...

    , illustrator
    Illustrator
    An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

     (d.2002
    2002 in France
    See also:2001 in France,other events of 2002,2003 in France.----Events from the year 2002 in France.-Events:*1 January - the Euro replaces the French franc as France's currency....

    ).

July to December

  • 2 July - Louise Laroche
    Louise Laroche
    Louise Laroche was one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. It is believed that she, her sister and her father, Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, were the only people of black descent aboard.-Early life:Louise Laroche was born on July 2, 1910 in...

    , one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (d.1998
    1998 in France
    See also:1997 in France,other events of 1998,1999 in France.----Events from the year 1998 in France.-Events:*6 February - The French prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in the streets of Ajaccio, Corsica.*15 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 5 July - Georges Vedel
    Georges Vedel
    Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.-Biography:Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies...

    , public law
    Public law
    Public law is a theory of law governing the relationship between individuals and the state. Under this theory, constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are sub-divisions of public law...

     professor (d.2002
    2002 in France
    See also:2001 in France,other events of 2002,2003 in France.----Events from the year 2002 in France.-Events:*1 January - the Euro replaces the French franc as France's currency....

    ).
  • 7 July - Raymond Polin
    Raymond Polin
    Raymond Polin was a French philosopher.He taught at the Paris University .-Literary works:* La création des valeurs, 1944* La compréhension des valeurs, 1945...

    , philosopher (d.2001
    2001 in France
    See also:2000 in France,other events of 2001,2002 in France.----Events from the year 2001 in France.-Events:*March - The Renault Vel Satis is launched at the Geneva Motor Show.*8 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 27 July - Julien Gracq
    Julien Gracq
    Julien Gracq , born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French département of Maine-et-Loire, was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their Surrealism.Gracq first studied in Paris at the Lycée Henri IV, where he earned his...

    , writer (d.2007
    2007 in France
    See also:2006 in France,other events of 2007,2008 in France.----Events from the year 2007 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Nicolas Sarkozy* Prime Minister - François Fillon* Interior Minister - Michèle Alliot-Marie...

    ).
  • 5 August - Bruno Coquatrix
    Bruno Coquatrix
    Bruno Coquatrix, was born in Ronchin, Nord on 5 August 1910 and died in Paris on 1 April 1979, buried in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery . He is mainly known as the owner and manager of the music hall Paris Olympia...

    , songwriter and music impresario (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....

    ).
  • 7 August - Lucien Hervé
    Lucien Hervé
    Lucien Hervé was a Jewish Hungarian-French photographer well known for his black-and-white photos of architecture, especially that of Le Corbusier, with whom he had a nearly 20-year collaboration....

    , photographer (d.2007
    2007 in France
    See also:2006 in France,other events of 2007,2008 in France.----Events from the year 2007 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Nicolas Sarkozy* Prime Minister - François Fillon* Interior Minister - Michèle Alliot-Marie...

    ).
  • 14 August
    • Pierre Schaeffer
      Pierre Schaeffer
      Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...

      , composer, inventor of musique concrète
      Musique concrète
      Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

       (d.1995
      1995 in France
      See also:1994 in France,other events of 1995,1996 in France.----Events from the year 1995 in France.-Events:*21 February - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists....

      ).
    • Willy Ronis
      Willy Ronis
      Willy Ronis was a French photographer, the best-known of whose work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.-Early life:...

      , photographer (d. 2009)
  • 1 September - Pierre Bézier
    Pierre Bézier
    Pierre Étienne Bézier was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modeling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in CAD/CAM systems...

    , engineer (d.1999
    1999 in France
    See also:1998 in France,other events of 1999,2000 in France.----Events from the year 1999 in France.-Events:*3 March - ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty by the French National Assembly....

    ).
  • 3 September - Maurice Papon
    Maurice Papon
    Maurice Papon was a French civil servant, industrial leader and Gaullist politician, who was convicted for crimes against humanity for his participation in the deportation of over 1600 Jews during World War II when he was secretary general for police of the Prefecture of Bordeaux.Papon also...

    , Vichy government official, prefect of police of Paris (d.2007
    2007 in France
    See also:2006 in France,other events of 2007,2008 in France.----Events from the year 2007 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Nicolas Sarkozy* Prime Minister - François Fillon* Interior Minister - Michèle Alliot-Marie...

    ).
  • 8 September - Jean-Louis Barrault
    Jean-Louis Barrault
    Jean-Louis Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis .Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted...

    , actor, 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 mime artist
    Mime artist
    A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer...

     (d.1994
    1994 in France
    See also:1993 in France,other events of 1994,1995 in France.----Events from the year 1994 in France.-Events:*20 March - Cantonales Elections held.*24 March - Cantonales Elections held....

    ).
  • 14 September - Gaston Defferre
    Gaston Defferre
    Gaston Defferre was a French socialist politician.-Biography:Lawyer and member of the French Section of the Workers' International political party, he was a member of the Brutus Network, a Resistance Socialist group during World War II...

    , politician (d.1986
    1986 in France
    See also:1985 in France,other events of 1986,1987 in France.----Events from the year 1986 in France.-Events:*20 January - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel....

    ).
  • 29 October - Aurélie Nemours
    Aurélie Nemours
    Aurélie Nemours was a Parisian painter.She made abstract geometrical paintings and was highly influenced by cubism....

    , painter (d.2005
    2005 in France
    See also:2004 in France,other events of 2005,2006 in France.----Events from the year 2005 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Jacques Chirac* Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin then Dominique de Villepin...

    ).
  • 13 November - Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
    Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
    Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was a minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 60s, as well as France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian War...

    , politician and diplomat.
  • 19 December - Jean Genet
    Jean Genet
    Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...

    , writer and political activist (d.1986
    1986 in France
    See also:1985 in France,other events of 1986,1987 in France.----Events from the year 1986 in France.-Events:*20 January - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel....

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Ernestine Chassebœuf
    Ernestine Chassebœuf
    Ernestine Chassebœuf was a French letter writer.- Life :Ernestine Chassebœuf spent all her life in Anjou. Born in Botz-en-Mauges, Maine-et-Loire, she married in 1928 Edmond Chassebœuf, who died in 1970...

    , letter writer (d.2005
    2005 in France
    See also:2004 in France,other events of 2005,2006 in France.----Events from the year 2005 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Jacques Chirac* Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin then Dominique de Villepin...

    ).
  • Henri Enjalbert
    Henri Enjalbert
    Henri Enjalbert was a French professor of geography at the University of Bordeaux. He was considered an eminent specialist in wine geology, whose expert opinion frequently overlapped into the fields of oenology, and wine and terroir history, within the Bordeaux region and beyond...

    , professor of geography
    Geography
    Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...

     (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....

    ).
  • Paule Maurice
    Paule Maurice
    Paule Maurice was a French composer born in Paris September 29, 1910 to Raoul Auguste Alexandre Maurice and Marguerite Jeanne Lebrun and died August 18, 1967 in Paris. Her full name was Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice...

    , composer (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....

    ).
  • Charles Pisot
    Charles Pisot
    Charles Pisot was a French mathematician. He is chiefly recognized as one of the primary investigators of the numerical set associated with his name, the Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers....

    , mathematician (d.1984
    1984 in France
    See also:1983 in France,other events of 1984,1985 in France.----Events from the year 1984 in France.-Events:* 21 April - The Renault Espace,Europe's first production people carrier, is launched.-Sport:...

    ).
  • Raymond Poïvet
    Raymond Poïvet
    Raymond Poïvet was a French cartoonist.-Biography:Poïvet was born in 1910 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord....

    , cartoonist (d.1999
    1999 in France
    See also:1998 in France,other events of 1999,2000 in France.----Events from the year 1999 in France.-Events:*3 March - ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty by the French National Assembly....

    ).
  • René Zazzo
    René Zazzo
    René Zazzo was a French psychologist and pedagogue.The essence of Zazzo's research related to child psychology. He was one of the first people to study a group of problems relating to dyslexia and disability...

    , psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

     (d.1995
    1995 in France
    See also:1994 in France,other events of 1995,1996 in France.----Events from the year 1995 in France.-Events:*21 February - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists....

    ).

Deaths

  • 4 January – Leon Delagrange
    Léon Delagrange
    Léon Delagrange Léon Delagrange Léon Delagrange (Ferdinand Léon Delagrange; March 13, 1873 was a pioneer French aviator and also a sculptor .He was born at Orléans and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris...

    , pioneer aviator (b. 1873)
  • 5 January - Léon Walras
    Léon Walras
    Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras was a French mathematical economist associated with the creation of the general equilibrium theory.-Life and career:...

    , economist (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...

    ).
  • February - Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville
    Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville
    Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville , was a French historian and philologist.He was born at Nancy. In 1851 he left the École des Chartes with the degree of palaeographic archivist...

    , historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

     and philologist (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....

    ).
  • 16 April – Julien Dupré
    Julien Dupré
    Julien Dupré was born in Paris on March 18, 1851 to Jean Dupré and Pauline Bouillié and began his adult life working in a lace shop in anticipation of entering his family’s jewelry business...

    , artist (b. 1851)
  • 18 May - Pauline García-Viardot
    Pauline Garcia-Viardot
    Pauline Viardot [née García] was a leading nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue and composer of Spanish descent.-Name:Her name appears in various forms. When it is not simply "Pauline Viardot", it most commonly appears in association with her maiden name García or the unaccented...

    , mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano
    A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

     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.1821
    1821 in France
    See also:1820 in France,other events of 1821,1822 in France.Events from the year 1821 in France.-Events:*5 May - Napoléon dies in exile at Saint Helena...

    ).
  • 27 June - Gustave Emile Boissonade
    Gustave Emile Boissonade
    Gustave Emile Boissonade de Fontarabie was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting much of Japan's civil code during the Meiji Era, and honored as one of the founders of modern Japan's legal system.-Biography:...

    , legal scholar (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...

    ).
  • 21 July - Léopold Victor Delisle
    Léopold Victor Delisle
    Léopold Victor Delisle , French bibliophile and historian, was born at Valognes .-Early life:He was taken on as a young man by the antiquarian and historian of architecture, Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville, who engaged him to copy manuscripts in his collection, and taught him enough...

    , bibliophile and historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

     (b.1826
    1826 in France
    See 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 ....

    ).
  • 2 September - Henri Rousseau
    Henri Rousseau
    Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier , a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector...

    , painter (b.1844
    1844 in France
    See also:1843 in France,other events of 1844,1845 in France.----Events from the year 1844 in France.-Events:*6 August - First Franco-Moroccan War begins....

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Gaston du Bousquet
    Gaston du Bousquet
    Gaston du Bousquet was a French engineer who was Chief of Motive Power of the Chemin de Fer du Nord and professor at École centrale de Lille .-References:...

    , engineer (b.1839
    1839 in France
    See also:1838 in France,other events of 1839,1840 in France.----Events from the year 1839 in France.-Events:*9 January - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.*2 March - Legislative election held....

    ).
  • Emmanuel Frémiet
    Emmanuel Frémiet
    Emmanuel Frémiet was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....

    , sculptor (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....

    ).
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