1888 in France

"See also:"
1887 in France,
other events of 1888,
1889 in France.

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Events from the year 1888 in France.

Events

*14 October - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: "Roundhay Garden Scene" in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Followed by his movie "Leeds Bridge".

Births

January to March

*8 January - Pierre Wertheimer, businessman and racehorse owner (d.1965).
*9 January - Alfred Plé, rower and Olympic medallist (d.1980).
*20 January - Georges Marrane, politician (d.1976).
*4 February - Georges Girard, bacteriologist (d.1985).
*20 February - Georges Bernanos, author (d.1948).
*28 February - Eugène Bigot, composer and conductor (d.1965).
*17 March - Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1983).

April to June

*1 April - Lucien Callamand, actor (d.1968).
*2 April - Roger Ducret, fencer and Olympic gold medallist (d.1962).
*14 May - Lucien Berland, entomologist and arachnologist (d.1962).
*15 May - Jean Wahl, philosopher (d.1974).
*27 May - Louis Durey, composer (d.1979).
*5 June - Armand Léon Annet, colonial governor (d.1973).

July to December

*14 July - Jacques de Lacretelle, novelist (d.1985).
*26 July - Marcel Jouhandeau, writer (d.1979).
*31 July - Jean Moreau, politician (d.1972).
*12 September - Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (d.1972).
*16 September - Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister (d.1970).
*24 September - Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, aeronautical engineer (d.1979).
*30 September - Louis Lecoin, militant pacifist (d.1971).
*6 October - Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (d.1918).
*9 November - Jean Monnet, architect of European Unity (d.1979).
*16 December - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (d.1967).

Full date unknown

*Louis Antoine, mathematician (d.1971).
*Georges Bénézé, philosopher (d.1978).
*Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (d.1967).
*Léonce Crenier, Roman Catholic monk and theologian (d.1963).
*Francois Dupre, hotelier, art collector and horse breeder (d.1966).
*Camille Le Mercier d'Erm, poet, historian and Breton nationalist (d.1978).
*René Massigli, diplomat (d.1988).
*Henri Pequet, pilot, flew first official airmail flight in 1911 (d.1974).

Deaths

*18 January - Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer (b.1807).
*23 January - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (b.1815).
*13 February - Jean-Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (b.1814).
*20 February - François Perrier, general and geodesist (b.1835).
*22 February - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (b.1815).
*15 March - Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (b.1820).
*16 March - Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (b.1801).
*29 March - Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer and pianist (b.1813).
*1 April - Jules Émile Planchon, botanist (b.1823).
*11 April - Louis-Frédéric Brugère, professor of apologetics and church history (b.1823).
*14 July - Antoine Étex, sculptor, painter and architect (b.1808).
*9 August - Charles Cros, poet and inventor (b.1842).

Full date unknown

*Pierre Bossan, architect (b.1814).
*Arsène Darmesteter, philologist (b.1846).

References