1858 in France

"See also:"
1857 in France,
other events of 1858,
1859 in France.

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Events from the year 1858 in France.

Events

*14 January - Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Executed on March 13 of the same year by the guillotine.
*11 February - The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to St Bernadette of Lourdes.

Births

*6 January - Sébastien Faure, anarchist, (d.1942).
*9 January - Maurice Couette, physicist (d.1943).
*21 January - Mélanie Bonis, composer (d.1937).
*7 February - Amédée-François Lamy, military officer (d.1900).
*15 April - Émile Durkheim, sociologist (d.1917).
*19 May - Roland Bonaparte, prince, president of the Société de Géographie (d.1924).
*28 August - Charles le Bargy, actor and film director (d.1936).
*August - Guy d'Hardelot, composer, pianist and teacher (d.1936).

Full date unknown

*André Antoine, actor-manager (d.1943).

Deaths

*15 January - Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, statesman, minister and governor of the Bank of France (b.1782).
*27 March - Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (b.1775).
*9 April - Auguste François Chomel, pathologist (b.1788).
*3 May - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet (b.1803).
*21 May - Charles-Louis Havas, writer and founder of Agence France-Presse (b.1783).
*10 July - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (b.1786).
*3 December - Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (b.1817).

Full date unknown

*Joseph Paul Gaimard, naturalist (b.1796).
*Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis, diplomat and statesman (b.1778).
*Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, historian (b.1776).

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