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1856 in France

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Events from the year 1856 in France.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Napoleon III

Events

  • 30 March - Treaty of Paris is signed by Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom, settling the Crimean War.

Births

  • 1 February - Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist (died 1928)
  • 16 March - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo (died 1879)
  • 24 April - Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, later Chief of State of Vichy France (died 1951)
  • 25 May - Louis Franchet d'Espérey, general during World War I (died 1942)
  • 5 June - Gabrielle Réjane, actress (died 1920)
  • 1 September - Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (died 1929)
  • 29 October - Jacques Curie, physicist (died 1941)

Full date unknown

  • Eugène Louis Bouvier, entomologist and carcinologist (died 1944)
  • Thérèse Humbert, fraudster (died 1918)

Deaths

January to June

  • 4 January - Pierre Jean David, sculptor (born 1788)
  • 6 January - Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, musician and composer (born 1789)
  • 29 February - Auguste Chapdelaine, Christian missionary to China (born 1814)
  • March - Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux, actress (born 1810)
  • 27 April - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (born 1806)
  • 3 May - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (born 1803)
  • 12 May - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (born 1786)
  • 13 May - Jean Zuléma Amussat, surgeon (born 1796)
  • 14 May - Théodore Guérin (Saint Theodora), missionary (born 1798)

July to December

  • 8 October - Théodore Chassériau, painter (born 1819)
  • 12 October - Jean Bachelot La Pylaie, botanist, explorer and archaeologist (born 1786)
  • 4 November - Hippolyte Delaroche, painter (born 1797)
  • 9 November - Étienne Cabet, philosopher and utopian socialist (born 1788)
  • 25 December - Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignan (born 1800)

Full date unknown

  • Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, painter and miniaturist (born 1770)
  • Charles de Steuben, painter (born 1788)

References

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