1880 in France

Incumbents

• President: Jules Grévy
• President of the Council of Ministers: Charles de Freycinet (until 23 September), Jules Ferry (starting 23 September)

Events

• 29 June – France annexes Tahiti.
• Musée Carnavalet is opened to the public as a museum of Paris history.
• Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.

Literature

• Pierre Loti - Le Mariage de Loti
• Émile Zola
  • L'Inondation
  • Nana
• Jules Verne - La Maison à vapeur

Music

• Jules Massenet - La Vierge
• Jacques Offenbach - Belle Lurette

Births

• 14 January – Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Cardinal (died 1965)
• 5 February – Gabriel Voisin, aviation pioneer (died 1973)
• 20 February – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (died 1923)
• 21 February – Pierre Chaumié, politician (died 1966)
• 17 April – Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (died 1967)
• 25 May – Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (died 1967)
• 26 August – Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (died 1918)
• 12 October – Marcel-Bruno Gensoul, admiral (d. 1973)
• 8 December – Clément-Emile Roques, Cardinal (died 1964)

Full date unknown

• Charles Catteau, industrial designer (died 1966)
• Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, composer and conductor (died 1965)

Deaths

• 4 January – Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (born 1801)
• 17 January – Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (born 1819)
• 31 January – Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1806)
• 8 May – Gustave Flaubert, novelist (born 1821)
• 24 June – Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (born 1822)
• 9 July – Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (born 1824)
• 5 October - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (born 1819)
• 22 October - Alphonse Pénaud, aeronautical pioneer (born 1850)
• 10 November – Sabin Berthelot, naturalist and ethnologist (born 1794)
• 20 November – Léon Cogniet, painter (born 1794)
• 24 November – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)

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