1872 in France

Events from the year 1872 in France.

1872
in
France
Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:Other events of 1872
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Incumbents

  • President: Adolphe Thiers
  • President of the Council of Ministers: Jules Armand Dufaure

Events

  • 27 November - Meteor shower display over France.
  • Louis Ducos du Hauron creates an early color photograph.[1]
  • Chargeurs established as a shipping company.
  • S. T. Dupont begins manufacture of luxury leather goods.

Arts and literature

  • 22 May - Georges Bizet's comic opera Djamileh is premièred at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
  • 13 November (07:35) (probable date) - Claude Monet begins painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant, the painting that will give a name to Impressionism) as viewed from his hotel room at Le Havre.[2]

Births

  • 16 January - Henri Büsser, composer and conductor (died 1973)
  • 18 January - Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, noble from the House of Orléans (died 1931)
  • 24 February - Gustave Sandras, artistic gymnast (died 1951)
  • 26 March - Émile Armand, individualist anarchist (died 1962)
  • 7 June - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (died 1932)
  • 1 July - Louis Blériot, inventor, engineer and aviation pioneer (died 1936)
  • 2 July - Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, psychiatrist (died 1934)
  • 15 July - Jean Dargassies, racing cyclist (died 1965)
  • 28 July - Albert Sarraut, politician, twice Prime Minister of France (died 1962)
  • 22 September - Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, painter (died 1967)
  • 17 October – Madeleine Rolland, translator and peace activist (died 1960)
  • 30 November - Maurice de la Taille, priest and writer (died 1933)
  • 12 December - Daniel Halévy, historian (died 1962)

Full date unknown

  • Léon Bouly, inventor of the cinématographe (died 1932)
  • François-Victor Équilbecq, author (died 1917)
  • Colette Reynaud, feminist, socialist and pacifist journalist (died 1965)

Deaths

January to June

  • 6 February - Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, author and theologian (born 1805)
  • 31 March - Jules Guyot, physician and agronomist (born 1807)
  • 5 April - Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier, astronomer (born 1812)
  • 28 April - Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, photographer (born 1802)
  • 20 June - Elie Frédéric Forey, Marshal of France (born 1804)
  • 27 June - Michel Carré, librettist (born 1821)

July to December

  • 5 July - Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers, surgeon (born 1808)
  • 4 October - Jean-Jacques Bourassé, priest, archaeologist and historian (born 1813)
  • 21 October - Jacques Babinet, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1794)
  • 23 October - Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist, journalist, dramatist and literary critic (born 1811)
  • 29 October - Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, chess master (born 1800)
  • 6 December - Félix Archimède Pouchet, naturalist (born 1800)
  • 10 December - Étienne Arnal, actor (born 1794)
  • December - Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue, historian and biographer (born 1801)

Full date unknown

  • Ximénès Doudan, journalist (born 1800)

References

  1. "World is Round". Archived from the original on 2008-03-26. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
  2. Olson, Donald W. (2014). "Dating Impression, Sunrise". Monet's Impression, Sunrise: the biography of a painting. Paris: Éditions Hazan; Musée Marmottan Monet. pp. 80–105. ISBN 978-0-300-21088-0.
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