1869 in France

"See also:"
1868 in France,
other events of 1869,
1870 in France.

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Events from the year 1869 in France.

Events

*23 May - Legislative election held.
*6 June - Legislative election held to elect the fourth legislature of the French Second Empire.

Births

*8 April - Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal (d.1936).
*12 April - Henri Désiré Landru, serial killer (executed) (d.1922).
*29 July - Paul Aymé, tennis player (d.1962).
*22 November - André Gide, author and winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 (d.1951).
*31 December - Henri Matisse, artist (d.1954).

Full date unknown

*Paul Émile Chabas, painter (d.1937).

Deaths

*8 January - Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, geologist and metallurgist (b.1801).
*8 March - Hector Berlioz, composer (b.1803).
*8 June - Felix-Joseph Barbelin, Jesuit influential in the development of the Catholic community in Philadelphia (b.1808).
*7 September - Auguste Simon Paris, notary and entomologist (b.1794).
*13 October - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, literary critic (b.1804).
*15 October - Charles Nicholas Aubé, physician and entomologist (b.1802).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Pierre Dantan, sculptor (b.1800).

References