1865 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Napoleon III

Events

• 1 January - The French government suppresses promulgation of the Papal "Syllabus of Errors" from the pulpit.
• 3 November - Opening of the first Printemps department store, in Paris.
• 6 December - Treaty with Monaco.
• Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, son of Napoleon, becomes President of the Corps législatif.
• Flag reformed.

Arts and literature

• 1 January - Hector Berlioz finishes his memoirs.
• Édouard Manet's painting Olympia is first exhibited, at the Salon (Paris), and causes controversy.
• Jean-François Millet's painting The Angelus (L'Angélus) is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France.

Births

• 20 January - Yvette Guilbert, singer and actress (died 1944)
• 5 March - Clémentine Delait, bearded lady (died 1939)
• 9 June - Albéric Magnard, composer (died 1914)
• 1 October - Paul Dukas, composer and teacher (died 1935)
• 8 December - Jacques Hadamard, mathematician (died 1963)

Deaths

• 19 January - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosopher (born 1809)
• 16 February - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist (born 1815)
• 13 April - Achille Valenciennes, zoologist (born 1794)
• 18 April - Léon Jean Marie Dufour, medical doctor and naturalist (born 1780)
• 30 March - Gustave de Beaumont, magistrate, prison reformer and travel companion to Alexis de Tocqueville (born 1802)
• 18 November – Joseph Déjacque, anarcho-communist poet and writer (born 1821).
• 21 November - Jean-Claude-Léonard Baveux, priest and missionary in Canada (born 1796)
• Full date unknown - César Lecat de Bazancourt, military historian (born 1810)

References

References

1. King, Ross. (2006). "The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism". Waller & Company.
2. Farthing, Stephen. (2006). "1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die". Cassell.