1886 in France

"See also:"
1885 in France,
other events of 1886,
1887 in France.

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Events from the year 1886 in France.

Events

*15 May - Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.

Arts and Literature

*30 November - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Births

January to June

*5 March - Léon Mathot, actor and film director (d.1968).
*7 March - Jacques Majorelle, painter (d.1962).
*7 March - René Thomas, motor racing driver (d.1975).
*29 March - Paul Amiot, actor (d.1979).
*15 April - Amédée Ozenfant, cubist painter (d.1966).
*19 April - Hermine David, painter (d.1970).
*25 April - Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (d.2001).
*29 April - Count Renaud de la Frégeolière, author and first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (d.1981).
*3 May - Marcel Dupré, organist, pianist and composer (d.1971).
*24 May - Paul Paray, conductor, organist and composer (d.1979).

July to December

*16 July - Pierre Benoit, novelist (d.1962).
*3 August - Henri Debain, actor (d.1983).
*15 September - Paul Pierre Lévy, mathematician (d.1971).
*16 September - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (d.1966).
*30 September - Gaston Ramon, veterinarian and biologist (d.1963).
*3 October - Alain-Fournier, author and soldier (d.1914).
*4 October - Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister (d.1970).
*6 November - André Marty, leading figure in the French Communist Party (d.1956).
*15 November - René Guénon, orientalist and philosopher (d.1951).

Full date unknown

*Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, painter and sculptor (d.1965).
*Henri Chapron, automobile coachbuilder (d.1978).
*Georges Painvin, cryptanalyst (d.1980).
*Marie-Gabriel Tissot, Abbot of Quarr (d.1983).

Deaths

*23 January - Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (b.1815).
*27 April - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (b.1803).
*17 March - Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (b.1814).
*12 July - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (b.1803).
*14 August - Edmond Laguerre, mathematician (b.1834).
*16 September - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (b.1819).
*26 September - Hippolyte Castille, writer (b.1820).
*14 November - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, geologist and mineralogist (b.1820).

Full date unknown

*Pierre Edouard Frere, painter (b.1819).
*Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (b.1822).

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