1890 in France

"See also:"
1889 in France,
other events of 1890,
1891 in France.

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Events from the year 1890 in France.

Events

*2 January - Steamship "Persia" wrecked off Corsica: 130 lives lost."List of shipwrecks of 1866-1911" (timeline), webpage: [http://www.google.com TBD] .]
*21 February - First Franco-Dahomean War begins.
*1 March - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as Minister of the Interior.
*4 March - Battle of Cotonou, attack on French positions repulsed.
*4 October - First Franco-Dahomean War ends in French victory.

Arts and Literature

*Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts is founded. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is president and co-founder.

Births

January to June

*19 January - Élise Rivet, nun and World War II heroine (d.1945).
*1 February - Germaine Lubin, soprano (d.1979).
*24 March - Robert Schurrer, athlete and Olympic medallist (d.1972).
*6 April - André-Louis Danjon, astronomer (d.1967).
*29 May - Robert Desoille, psychotherapist (d.1966).
*12 June - Théophile Alajouanine, neurologist (d.1980).

July to December

*4 July - Jacques Carlu, architect and designer (d.1976).
*27 July - Jacques Forestier, rheumatologist (d.1978).
*15 August - Jacques Ibert, composer (d.1962).
*23 August - Marcelle Lalou, Tibetologist (d.1967).
*25 September - Honoré Barthélemy, cyclist (d.1964).
*22 November - Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President (d.1970).
*29 November - Maurice Genevoix, author (d.1980).
*2 December - Jean Médecin, lawyer and politician (d.1965).
*25 December - André Lesauvage, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971).

Full date unknown

*Jules Gros, Breton linguist (d.1992).
*Rita Jolivet, actress (d.1971).
*Camille Mandrillon, biathlete and Olympic medallist (d.1969).
*Eugène Séguy, entomologist (d.1985).

Deaths

*25 January - Jean Gailhac, priest (b.1802).
*13 July - Auguste Jean François Grenier, doctor and entomologist (b.1814).
*18 August - Albert Dubois-Pillet, painter and army officer (b.1846).
*19 October - Émile Léonard Mathieu, mathematician (b.1835).
*11 November - Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, adventurer (b.1842).
*19 December - Eugène Lami, painter and lithographer (b.1800).

Full date unknown

*Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (b.1817).

References