1882 in France

"See also:"
1881 in France,
other events of 1882,
1883 in France.

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Events from the year 1882 in France.

Events

*28 March - Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
*6 May - North Sea Fisheries Convention is signed by United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France to regulate the policy of the fisheries in the North Sea.

Births

January to March

*13 January - Darius Paul Dassault, General (d.1969).
*18 January - Lazare Lévy, pianist, composer and teacher (d.1964).
*19 January - Pierre Allemane, international soccer player (d.1956).
*5 February - Louis Wagner, motor racing driver (d.1960).
*26 February - Pierre Mac Orlan, novelist and songwriter (d.1970).
*20 March - René Coty, politician, President of France (d.1962).

April to June

*16 April - André Edouard Marty, artist (d.1974).
*17 April - Émile Muselier, Admiral (d.1965).
*10 May - Donatien Bouché, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1965).
*13 May - Georges Braque, painter and sculptor (d.1963).
*25 May - Maurice Le Boucher, organist, composer, and pedagogue (d.1964).
*13 June - Claude-Léon Mascaux, sculptor (d.1965).
*22 June - Jacques Thubé, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (d.1969).

July to September

*2 July - Princess Marie Bonaparte, psychoanalyst (d.1962).
*8 August - François Piétri, politician, Minister and diplomat (d.1966).
*10 August - Paul Marchandeau, politician and Minister (d.1968).
*16 August - Désiré Mérchez, swimmer, water polo player and Olympic medallist (d.1968).
*10 September - Jacques Gréber, architect (d.1962).
*24 September - Max Décugis, tennis player (d.1978).

October to December

*18 October - Lucien Petit-Breton, cyclist, winner of 1907 and 1908 Tour de France (d.1917).
*25 October - André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, Cardinal (d.1964).
*29 October - Jean Giraudoux, novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (d.1944).
*18 November - Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher (d.1973).
*22 November - Charles Vildrac, playwright and poet (d.1971).
*29 November - Henri Fabre, aviator and aircraft designer (d.1984).
*31 December - Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (d.1967).

Full date unknown

*Robert Debré, pediatrician (d.1978).
*Jean Dupas, painter, designer, poster artist and decorator (d.1964).
*Louis Gernet, philologist and sociologist (d.1962).
*Émile Girardeau, engineer (d.1970).
*Jean-Julien Lemordant, artist and soldier (d.1968).
*Robert Louzon, engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist and socialist (d.1976).
*Julien Peridier, electrical engineer and astronomer (d.1967).

Deaths

January to June

*1 February - Antoine Bussy, chemist (b.1794).
*12 February - Madame Céleste, actress (b.1815).
*8 April - Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat, historian and archaeologist (b.1814).
*1 May - Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Indianapolis (b.1798).
*17 May - François Chabas, egyptologist (b.1817).
*15 June - Ernest Courtot de Cissey, General (b.1810).
*25 June - François Jouffroy, sculptor (b.1806).

July to December

*16 August - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, general (b.1817).
*8 September - Joseph Liouville, mathematician (b.1809).
*14 September - Georges Leclanché, electrical engineer (b.1839).
*6 December - Louis Blanc, politician and historian (b.1811).
*26 December - Henri Le Secq, painter and photographer (b.1818).
*31 December - Léon Gambetta, statesman (b.1838).

Full date unknown

*Auguste Francois Biard, painter (b.1800).
*Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne, historian (b.1820).
*Louis-Auguste Desmarres, ophthalmologist (b.1810).
*Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (b.1794).

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