1874 in France

Incumbents

• President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta
• President of the Council of Ministers: Albert, duc de Broglie (until 22 May), Ernest Courtot de Cissey (starting 22 May)

Events

• 23 January – Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered.
• 15 March – France and the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
• 25 April – Louis Leroy reviews the First Impressionist Exhibition, held in Paris, and coins the term with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.

Literature

• Alphonse Daudet - Fromont jeune et Risler aîné
• Gustave Flaubert - La Tentation de Saint Antoine
• Victor Hugo - Quatrevingt-treize
• Jules Verne - L'Île mystérieuse
• Émile Zola - La Conquête de Plassans

Music

• Jacques Offenbach - Bagatelle / Madame l'archiduc

Births

January to June

• 21 January – René-Louis Baire, mathematician (died 1932)
• 19 February – Rose Gelbert, golfer (died 1956)
• 22 March – Jean Cau, rower.
• 3 May – François Coty, perfume manufacturer (died 1934)
• 14 May – Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (died 1939)

July to December

• 29 July – Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (died 1953)
• 4 September – Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise, great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (died 1940)
• 4 October – Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (died 1950)
• 25 October – Henri Bénard, physicist (died 1939)
• 2 November – Georges Andrique, painter (died 1964)
• 14 November – André-Gaston Prételat, general (died 1969)
• 5 December – Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (died 1943)
• 6 December – Lucien Démanet, gymnast
• 24 December – Yves Le Febvre, writer and politician (died 1959)

Deaths

• 8 January – Abbé Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, writer, historian (born 1814)
• 9 February – Jules Michelet, historian (born 1798)
• 26 August – Julie-Victoire Daubié, journalist (born 1824)
• 12 September – François Guizot, Prime Minister (born 1787)
• 22 December – Louis Aubert-Roche, physician (born 1818)

References

References

1. "Olympedia – Rose Gelbert".
2. Allon, Henry. (1877). "The British Quarterly Review". Hodder and Stoughton.