1865 in France

"See also:"
1864 in France,
other events of 1865,
1866 in France.

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Events from the year 1865 in France.

Events

Arts and Literature

*1 January - Hector Berlioz finishes his Memoirs.

Births

*20 January - Yvette Guilbert, singer and actress (d.1944).
*9 June - Albéric Magnard, composer (d.1914).
*1 October - Paul Dukas, composer and teacher (d.1935).
*8 December - Jacques Hadamard, mathematician (d.1963).

Deaths

*19 January - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosopher (b.1809).
*16 February - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist (b.1815).
*13 April - Achille Valenciennes, zoologist (b.1794).
*18 April - Léon Jean Marie Dufour, medical doctor and naturalist (b.1780).
*30 March - Gustave de Beaumont, magistrate, prison reformer and travel companion to Alexis de Tocqueville (b.1802).
*21 November - Jean-Claude-Léonard Baveux, priest and missionary in Canada (b.1796).

Full date unknown

*Baron de César Bazancourt, military historian (b.1810).

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