1868 in France
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Events from the year 1868 in France.
Contents
Incumbents
Events
- 1868 - The first documented bicycle race was generally held to be a 1,200 m race at the Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris. [1]
- 18 August - Helium is discovered by astronomer Pierre Janssen (and independently by Joseph Norman Lockyer on August 20).
- October - French Military Mission is ordered to leave Japan by Imperial decree.
Arts and literature
- Establishment of the Académie Julian - a major art school in Paris, France that admitted women.
Births
January to June
- 17 January - Louis Couturat, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist (died 1914)
- 3 March - Émile Chartier, philosopher, journalist and pacifist (died 1951)
- 28 April - Émile Bernard, painter (died 1941)
- 6 May - Gaston Leroux, journalist, detective and novelist (died 1927)
- 18 June - Georges Lacombe, sculptor and painter (died 1916)
July to December
- 27 July - Eugène Apert, pediatrician (died 1940)
- 28 July - André Spire, poet, writer, and Zionist activist (died 1966)
- 6 August - Paul Claudel, poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1955)
- 11 August - Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (died 1967)
- 19 November - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (died 1932)
- 25 December - Eugenie Besserer, actress (died 1934)
Deaths
- 13 January - Arthur-Marie Le Hir, Biblical scholar and Orientalist (born 1811)
- 8 February - Jacques Camou, general (born 1792)
- 11 February - Léon Foucault, physicist (born 1819)
- 6 May - Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin, jurist and political pamphleteer (born 1788)
- 14 June - Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet, physicist (born 1791)
- 28 August - Antoine Clot, physician (born 1793)
- 24 December - Adolphe d'Archiac, geologist and paleontologist (born 1802)
- December - Pierre Carmouche, playwright (born 1797)
Full date unknown
- Jean-François Barrière, historian (born 1786)
- Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (born 1815)
- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Roman Catholic nun (born 1796)
- Étienne Serres, physician and embryologist (born 1786)
References
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