- 1860 in France
"See also:"
1859 in France ,
other events of 1860,1861 in France .----
Events from the year
1860 inFrance .Events
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23 January -Cobden-Chevalier Treaty Free Trade treaty is signed between theUnited Kingdom and France.
*9 April - TypesetterEdouard-Leon Scott de Martinville has his daughter sing the song "Au Claire de la Lune " on hisphonautograph ; producing the world's earliest knownsound recording . However, it would not be rediscovered until2008 .
*18 October - At the end of theSecond Opium War , British and French troops enter theForbidden City inBeijing .
*24 October -Convention of Peking signed by Chinese with Britain and France.Arts and Literature
Births
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11 February -Rachilde , author (d.1953).
*25 June -Gustave Charpentier , composer (d.1956).
*16 August -Jules Laforgue , poet (d.1887).
*20 August -Raymond Poincaré , statesman, five timesPrime Minister of France ,President of France (d.1934).Deaths
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29 January -Stéphanie de Beauharnais , consort ofKarl, Grand Duke of Baden (b.1789).
*14 March -Louis Antoine Jullien , conductor (b.1812).
*24 June -Jérôme Bonaparte , youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia (b.1784).
*22 August -Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps , painter (b.1803).
*17 December -Désirée Clary , wife of King Charles XIV ofSweden and a one-time fiancée ofNapoleon Bonaparte (b.1777).Full date unknown
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Carron du Villards ,ophthalmologist (b.1801).References
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