1856 in France

"See also:"
1855 in France,
other events of 1856,
1857 in France.

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Events from the year 1856 in France.

Events

*30 March - Treaty of Paris is signed by Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom, settling the Crimean War.

Births

*1 February - Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist (d.1928).
*16 March - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo (d.1879).
*24 April - Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, later Chief of State of Vichy France (d.1951).
*25 May - Louis Franchet d'Espérey, general during World War I (d.1942).
*5 June - Gabrielle Réjane, actress (d.1920).
*1 September - Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (d.1929).
*29 October - Jacques Curie, physicist (d.1941).

Full date unknown

*Eugène Louis Bouvier, entomologist and carcinologist (d.1944).
*Thérèse Humbert, fraudster (d.1918).

Deaths

January to June

*4 January - Pierre Jean David, sculptor (b.1788).
*29 February - Auguste Chapdelaine, Christian missionary to China (b.1814).
*March - Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux, actress (b.1810).
*27 April - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (b.1806).
*3 May - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (b.1803).
*12 May - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b.1786).
*13 May - Jean Zuléma Amussat, surgeon (b.1796).
*14 May - Théodore Guérin (Saint Theodora), missionary (b.1798).

July to December

*8 October - Théodore Chassériau, painter (b.1819).
*12 October - Jean Bachelot La Pylaie, botanist, explorer and archaeologist (b.1786).
*4 November - Hippolyte Delaroche, painter (b.1797).
*9 November - Étienne Cabet, philosopher and utopian socialist (b.1788).
*25 December - Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignan (b.1800).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, painter and miniaturist (b.1770).
*Charles de Steuben, painter (b.1788).

References