1881 in France

"See also:"
1880 in France,
other events of 1881,
1882 in France.

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Events from the year 1881 in France.

Events

*13 February - First issue of the feminist newspaper "La Citoyenne" is published by Hubertine Auclert.
*12 May - Treaty of Bardo is signed between the French Republic and Tunisian bey Muhammed as-Sadiq. Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.

Births

*11 January - Lucien Rosengart, engineer (d.1976).
*19 February - Paul Tournon, architect (d.1964).
*20 February - Julien Maitron, cyclist (d.1972).
*21 February - Marc Boegner, theologist, pastor, French Resistance member and essayist (b.1970).
*18 March - Paul Le Flem, composer and musician (d.1984).
*23 March - Roger Martin du Gard, author, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature (d.1958).
*7 August - François Darlan, Admiral (d.1942).
*10 October - Gaston Ragueneau, athlete and Olympic medallist (d.1978).
*4 November - Gaby Deslys, dancer and actress (d.1920).
*8 November - Robert Esnault-Pelterie, pioneering aircraft designer (d.1957).

Full date unknown

*Jérôme Carcopino, historian and author (d.1970).
*Paul Couturier, priest and promoter of the concept of Christian unity (d.1953).
*André Godard, archeologist and architect (d.1965).
*Élisée Maclet, painter (d.1962).

Deaths

*19 January - Auguste Mariette, scholar and archaeologist (b.1821).
*13 February - Alexis Paulin Paris, scholar and author (b.1800).
*17 February - Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician (b.1826).
*1 March - Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, statesman and diplomat (b.1805).
*24 March - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist (b.1817).
*2 June - Émile Littré, lexicographer and philosopher (b.1801).
*2 June - Pierre Louis Rouillard, sculptor (b.1820).
*28 June - Jules Armand Dufaure, statesman (b.1798).
*9 July - Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, author (b.1827).

Full date unknown

*Edouard Dulaurier, Orientalist and Egyptologist (b.1807).
*Émile de Girardin, journalist, publicist and politician (b.1802).
*Jules Achille Noël, painter (b.1815).
*Napoléon Peyrat, author and historian (b.1809).

References