1868 in France

"See also:"
1867 in France,
other events of 1868,
1869 in France.

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Events from the year 1868 in France.

Events

*31 May - The first bicycle race is held at Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris.Fact|date=April 2008
*18 August - Helium is discovered by astronomer Pierre Janssen (and independently by Joseph Norman Lockyer on August 20).
*October - French Military Mission is ordered to leave Japan by Imperial decree.

Arts and Literature

*Establishment of the Académie Julian - a major art school in Paris, France that admitted women.

Births

January to June

*17 January - Louis Couturat, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist (d.1914).
*3 March - Émile Chartier, philosopher, journalist and pacifist (d.1951).
*28 April - Émile Bernard, painter (d.1941).
*6 May - Gaston Leroux, journalist, detective and novelist (d.1927).
*18 June - Georges Lacombe, sculptor and painter (d.1916).

July to December

*27 July - Eugène Apert, pediatrician (d.1940).
*28 July - André Spire, poet, writer, and Zionist activist (d.1966).
*6 August - Paul Claudel, poet, dramatist and diplomat (d.1955).
*11 August - Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (d.1967).
*19 November - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (d.1932).
*25 December - Eugenie Besserer, actress (d.1934).

Deaths

*13 January - Arthur-Marie Le Hir, Biblical scholar and Orientalist (b.1811).
*8 February - Jacques Camou, general (b.1792).
*11 February - Léon Foucault, physicist (b.1819).
*6 May - Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin, jurist and political pamphleteer (b.1788).
*14 June - Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet, physicist (b.1791).
*28 August - Antoine Clot, physician (b.1793).
*24 December - Adolphe d'Archiac, geologist and paleontologist (b.1802).
*December - Pierre Carmouche, playwright (b.1797).

Full date unknown

*Jean-François Barrière, historian (b.1786).
*Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (b.1815).
*Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Roman Catholic nun (b.1796).
*Étienne Serres, physician and embryologist (b.1786).

References