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1892 in France
1892 in France
See also:1891 in France,other events of 1892,1893 in France.----Events from the year 1892 in France.-Events:*12 July - A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.*8 November...
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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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Events from the year 1893 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
- 10 March - Côte d'IvoireCôte d'IvoireThe Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...
becomes a French colony. - 20 August - Legislative electionFrench legislative election, 1893The 1893 general election was held on 20 August and 3 September 1893.-Parliamentary Groups:- Sources :*...
held. - 3 September - Legislative electionFrench legislative election, 1893The 1893 general election was held on 20 August and 3 September 1893.-Parliamentary Groups:- Sources :*...
held. - 10 October - First car number plates in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
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January to June
- 3 February - Gaston JuliaGaston JuliaGaston Maurice Julia was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularized by French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot; the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are closely related....
, mathematician (d.19781978 in FranceSee 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...
). - 5 February - Arsène RouxArsène RouxArsène Roux was a French Arabist and Berberologist. He was born in Rochegude and emigrated to Morocco in his early twenties where he started studying Classical Arabic, Moroccan Arabic and the Moroccan Berber languages...
, ArabistArabistThis is an article about the western scholars known as Arabists, not the political movement Pan-Arabism.An Arabist is someone normally from outside the Arab World who specialises in the study of the Arabic language and Arab culture, and often Arabic literature.-Origins:Arabists began in medieval...
and Berberologist (d.19711971 in FranceSee 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....
). - 15 March - Jules MochJules MochJules Salvador Moch was a French politician.-Biography:...
, politician (d.19851985 in FranceSee 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....
). - 21 March - Marcel Rey-GollietMarcel Rey-GollietMarcel Rey-Golliet was a French boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the middleweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming silver medalist Georges Prud'Homme.-External links:*...
, boxer (d.19671967 in FranceSee 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....
). - 3 April - Bernard FaÿBernard FaÿBernard Faÿ was a French historian of Franco-American relations and an anti-Masonic polemicist. He knew the United States at first hand, having studied at Harvard, and translated into French an excerpt of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and wrote his view of the United States as it was at...
, historian (d.19781978 in FranceSee 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...
). - 17 April - Marguerite BroquedisMarguerite BroquedisMarguerite Broquedis was a French female tennis player.She was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and died in Orléans.Broquedis won the Gold Medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics....
, tennis player (d.19831983 in FranceSee 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....
). - 12 May - René MourlonRené MourlonRené Mourlon was a French athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He competed for France at the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium where he won the silver medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay with his team mates René Lorain, René Tirard and Émile Ali-Khan...
, athlete and Olympic medallist (d.19771977 in FranceSee 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....
). - 14 May - Louis VerneuilLouis VerneuilLouis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage , better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor....
, playwright and screenwriter (d.19521952 in FranceSee 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....
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July to December
- 28 July - Alfred EluèreAlfred EluèreAlfred Eluère was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he won the silver medal as member of the French team.-External links:*...
, rugby unionRugby unionRugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
player (d.19851985 in FranceSee 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....
). - 15 August - Eugène CriquiEugène CriquiEugène Criqui was a French boxer who held the world featherweight title in 1923.Criqui was born in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. He was a professional pipe-fitter before he turned professional in 1910. He won the French flyweight title in 1912. His boxing career was interrupted when he...
, world champion boxer (d.19771977 in FranceSee 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....
). - 15 August - Pierre DacPierre DacAndré Isaac , better known as Pierre Dac was a French humorist and Résistance activist.He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne and died in Paris....
, humorist and French ResistanceFrench ResistanceThe 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...
activist (d.19751975 in FranceSee 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....
). - 17 August - Jean LaigretJean LaigretJean Laigret was a French biologist who was born in Blois.For much of his career he was associated with the Pasteur Institute in Brazzaville , Saigon , Dakar , Bamako and Tunis ,...
, biologistBiologistA 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...
(d.19661966 in FranceSee 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....
). - 19 October - Henri MignetHenri MignetHenri Mignet, Henri Mignet, Henri Mignet, (October 19, 1893 in Charente-Maritime – August 31, 1965 in Pessac in Gironde, was a French radio engineer who became well-known as an aircraft designer and builder...
, aircraftAircraftAn aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...
designer and builder (d.19651965 in FranceSee 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....
). - 1 November - Pierre DeleyPierre DeleyPierre Deley , was one of the pioneering pilots for the Aéropostale company.He was born in Marseillan, Hérault, the grand nephew and godson of another Marseillan native, Pierre Roques, the founder of French military aviation.He obtained his fighter pilot's licence in 1917 and finished World War I...
, pioneering pilot (d.19811981 in FranceSee 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....
). - 5 November - Raymond LoewyRaymond LoewyRaymond Loewy was an industrial designer, and the first to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine, on October 31, 1949. Born in France, he spent most of his professional career in the United States...
, industrial designer (d.19861986 in FranceSee 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....
). - 3 December - Edmond DecottigniesEdmond DecottigniesEdmond Decottignies was an French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Comines....
, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (d.19631963 in FranceSee 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....
). - 8 December - Pierre EtchebasterPierre EtchebasterPierre Etchebaster is widely considered history's greatest player of real tennis , the original racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis , is descended.Born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, a Basque fishing village, he served in the French Army during World War I before...
, real tennisReal tennisReal tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original indoor racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis , is descended...
player (d.19801980 in FranceSee 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:...
). - 31 December - Robert JacquinotRobert JacquinotRobert Jacquinot was a French road racing cyclist, who won two stages in the 1922 Tour de France and 2 stages in the 1923 Tour de France, and wore the yellow jersey for a total of four days. He was born in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis and died in Bobigny.- Palmarès :1922...
, cyclist (d.19801980 in FranceSee 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:...
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Deaths
- 10 January - Alexis AndréAlexis AndréFather Alexis André was a missionary Roman Catholic priest active in Western Canada.André was born in Kergompez, France. He was ordained a priest on July 14, 1861 and was immediately sent as a missionary to the Red River Colony and the Dakota Territory...
, missionary priest in CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
(b.18321832 in FranceSee also:1830 in France,other events of 1832,1833 in France.----Events from the year 1832 in France.-Events:*5 June - Anti-monarchist June Rebellion briefly breaks out in Paris....
). - 4 April - Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist (b.18061806 in FranceSee also:1805 in France,other events of 1806,1807 in France.----Events from the year 1806 in France.-Events:*6 February - Battle of San Domingo, British naval victory over French squadron.*February - France invaded the Kingdom of Naples....
). - 12 April - Alfred-Henri-Amand MameAlfred-Henri-Amand MameAlfred-Henri-Amand Mame was a French printer and publisher.-Mame, publishers:The founder of the Mame firm, Charles Mame, printed two newspapers at Angers in the last quarter of the eighteenth century; General Hoche had at one time hoped to marry his daughter...
, printer and publisher (b.18111811 in FranceSee also:1810 in France,other events of 1811,1812 in France.----Events from the year 1811 in France.-Events:*19 February - Peninsular War: Battle of the Gebora, French routed Spanish forces....
). - 16 August - Jean-Martin CharcotJean-Martin CharcotJean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He is known as "the founder of modern neurology" and is "associated with at least 15 medical eponyms", including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
, neurologistNeurologistA neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...
and professor of anatomical pathologyAnatomical pathologyAnatomical pathology or Anatomic pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the gross, microscopic, chemical, immunologic and molecular examination of organs, tissues, and whole bodies...
(b.18251825 in FranceSee 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...
). - 17 October - Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, general and politician, first President of the Third Republic (b.18081808 in FranceSee 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....
). - 18 October - Charles GounodCharles GounodCharles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
, composer (b.18181818 in FranceSee also:1817 in France,other events of 1818,1819 in France.----Events from the year 1818 in France.-Events:*1 October - Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle is convened.-January to June:...
). - 4 November - Pierre TirardPierre TirardPierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.He was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland. After studying in his native town, Tirard became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant...
, politician (b.18271827 in FranceSee 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....
). - 8 November - Arnaud-Michel d'AbbadieArnaud-Michel d'AbbadieArnaud-Michel d'Abbadie was a French and Basque geographer, and along with his older brother Antoine-Thomson d'Abbadie, was notable for his travels in Ethiopia. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary calls him "Michel Arnaud d'Abbadie".They were both born in Dublin, of a French father and an Irish...
, geographerGeographerA geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
(b.18151815 in FranceSee 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....
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- Jacques-Marie-Frangile BigotJacques-Marie-Frangile BigotJacques Marie Frangile Bigot was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. Born in Paris, where he lived all his life, though he had a small house in Quincy-sous-Sénart, Essonne.He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1844. His first paper...
, naturalistNatural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
and entomologist (b.18181818 in FranceSee also:1817 in France,other events of 1818,1819 in France.----Events from the year 1818 in France.-Events:*1 October - Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle is convened.-January to June:...
). - Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine BrohanJoséphine-Félicité-Augustine BrohanJoséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan was a French actress.The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy.The soubrette part, entrusted for more than 150 years...
, actress (b.18241824 in FranceSee 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....
). - Nicolas Édouard Delabarre-DuparcqNicolas Édouard Delabarre-DuparcqNicolas Édouard Delabarre-Duparcq was a French military critic and historian, born at Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique and in 1849 was appointed professor of military history at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr. Having entered the engineers in 1841, he...
, military critic and historian (b.18191819 in FranceSee 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 ....
). - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer (b.18151815 in FranceSee 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....
). - Gabriel-Hippolyte DestailleurGabriel-Hippolyte DestailleurGabriel-Hippolyte Alexandre Destailleur was a renowned Neo-Renaissance French architect noted for his designs and restoration work for great châteaux in France and in England....
, architectArchitectAn 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.18221822 in FranceSee 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....
). - Auguste-Barthélemy GlaizeAuguste-Barthélemy GlaizeAuguste-Barthélemy Glaize was a French Romantic painter of history paintings and genre paintings.- Career :He studied under the painters Achille Devéria and Eugène Devéria and taught Paul-Maurice Duthoit and his son Pierre-Paul-Léon Glaize....
, painter (b.18071807 in FranceSee also:1806 in France,other events of 1807,1808 in France.----Events from the year 1807 in France.-Events:*February - Napoleon attacks Russia.*7 February-8 February - Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat....
). - Gustave NadaudGustave NadaudGustave Nadaud was a French songwriter and chansonnier.Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro...
, songwriterSongwriterA songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
and chansonChansonA chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
nier (b.18201820 in FranceSee 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:...
). - Félix Esquirou de ParieuFélix Esquirou de ParieuFélix Marie Louis Pierre Esquirou de Parieu was a French statesman.Born in Aurillac, Cantal, he was notably Minister of Education and Public Worship from 1849 to 1851, and headed the French Council of State in 1870....
, statesman (b.18151815 in FranceSee 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....
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