1875 in France

"See also:"
1874 in France,
other events of 1875,
1876 in France.

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Events from the year 1875 in France.

Events

*20 May - Convention du Mètre signed in Paris.

Arts and Literature

*3 March - The first performance of Bizet’s "Carmen" at the Opéra Comique, Paris.

Births

*21 February - Jeanne Calment, supercentenarian and the oldest living person ever documented in history (d.1997).
*7 March - Maurice Ravel, composer and pianist (d.1937).
*27 March - Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, neurologist (d.1962).
*4 April - Pierre Monteux, conductor (d.1964).
*5 April - Mistinguett, singer (b.1956).
*27 April - Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, physicist (d.1960).
*28 June - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (d.1941).
*31 July - Jacques Villon, painter and printmaker (d.1963).
*6 August - Marcel Labey, conductor and composer (d.1968).
*27 September - Cléo de Mérode, dancer (d.1966).

Full date unknown

*Maurice Princet, mathematician and actuary (d.1973).

Deaths

January to June

*1 January - Jacques Crétineau-Joly, journalist and historian (b.1803).
*3 January - Pierre Larousse, grammarian and lexicographer (b.1817).
*20 January - Jean-François Millet, painter (b.1814).
*22 February - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter (b.1796).
*1 March - Tristan Corbière, poet (b.1845).
*5 May - Alexandre Boreau, pharmacist and botanist (b.1803).
*10 May - Gustave Thuret, botanist (b.1817).
*31 May - Eliphas Levi, occult author and magician (b.1810).
*3 June - Georges Bizet, composer and pianist (b.1838).
*24 June - Henri Labrouste, architect (b.1801).
*25 June - Antoine-Louis Barye, sculptor (b.1796).

July to December

*11 August - Charles Rohault de Fleury, architect (b.1801).
*25 August - Charles Auguste Frossard, general (b.1807).
*12 October - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor and painter (b.1827).
*24 October - Jacques Paul Migne, priest, theologian and publisher (b.1800).
*17 November - Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac, Bishop (b.1806).

Full date unknown

*Louis Amédée Achard, novelist (b.1814).
*Charles Auguste Désiré Filon, historian (b.1800).

References