- 1872 in France
"See also:"
1871 in France ,
other events of 1872,1873 in France .----
Events from the year
1872 inFrance .Events
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27 November -Meteor shower display over France.
*Louis Ducos du Hauron creates the first color photograph. [ [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/2378/photo2.html World is Round] ]Births
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16 January -Henri Büsser ,composer and conductor (d.1973).
*18 January -Emmanuel d'Orléans , noble from theHouse of Orléans (d.1931).
*7 June -Rodolphe d'Erlanger , painter and musicologist (d.1932).
*1 July -Louis Blériot , inventor, engineer and aviation pioneer (d.1936).
*2 July -Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault ,psychiatrist (d.1934).
*15 July -Jean Dargassies , racing cyclist (d.1965).
*28 July -Albert Sarraut , politician, twicePrime Minister of France (d.1962).Full date unknown
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Émile Armand ,individualist anarchist (d.1962).
*Léon Bouly , inventor who devised and created the "cinématographe " (d.1932).
*Maurice de la Taille , priest and writer (d.1933).
*François-Victor Équilbecq , author (d.1917).
*Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet , painter (d.1967).
*Daniel Halévy , historian (d.1962).Deaths
January to June
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6 February -Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry , author and theologian (b.1805).
*31 march -Jules Guyot , physician andagronomist (b.1807).
*5 April -Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier , astronomer (b.1812).
*28 April -Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard , photographer (b.1802).
*20 June -Elie Frédéric Forey ,Marshal of France (b.1804).
*27 June -Michel Carré , librettist (b.1821).July to December
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5 July -Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers ,surgeon (b.1808).
*4 October -Jean-Jacques Bourassé , priest, archaeologist and historian (b.1813).
*21 October -Jacques Babinet , physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b.1794).
*23 October -Théophile Gautier , poet, novelist, journalist, dramatist and literary critic (b.1811).
*29 October -Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant ,chess master (b.1800).
*6 December -Félix Archimède Pouchet , naturalist (b.1800).
*December -Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue , historian and biographer (b.1801).Full date unknown
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Etienne Arnal , actor (b.1794).
*Ximénès Doudan ,journalist (b.1800).References
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