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1861 in France

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Events from the year 1861 in France.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Napoleon III

Events

  • News of Henri Mouhot's discovery of Angkor Wat is published.

Births

  • 1 January – Jacques Émile Blanche, painter (died 1942)
  • 15 February - Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (died 1938)
  • 21 February - Pierre de Bréville, composer (died 1949)
  • 30 October - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (died 1929)
  • 2 November - Maurice Blondel, philosopher (died 1949)
  • 8 December
    • Aristide Maillol, sculptor (died 1944)
    • Georges Méliès, filmmaker (died 1938)
  • 16 December - Antonio de La Gandara, painter and draughtsman (died 1917)

Deaths

  • 5 February - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (born 1810)
  • 10 April - Édouard Ménétries, entomologist (born 1802)
  • 14 July - Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (born 1783)
  • 24 August - Pierre Berthier, geologist and mining engineer (born 1782)
  • 22 September - Rose Chéri, actress (born 1824)
  • 10 November - Henri Mouhot, naturalist and explorer (born 1826)
  • 10 November - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (born 1805)
  • 15 November - David Carcassonne, physician (born 1789)
  • 20 November - Pierre Frédéric Sarrus, mathematician (born 1798)
  • 21 November - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist (born 1802)

Full date unknown

  • Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer, violinist and conductor (born 1789)
  • Marie-Alfred de Suin, French vice-admiral and commander (born 1796)

References

References

  1. "Napoleon III". [[Encyclopædia Britannica]].
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