1857 in France

"See also:"
1856 in France,
other events of 1857,
1858 in France.

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Events from the year 1857 in France.

Events

*3 March - France and the United Kingdom formally declare war on China in the Second Opium War.
*21 June - Legislative election held.
*5 July - Legislative election held for the second legislature of the French Second Empire.

Arts and Literature

*18 April - The Spirits' Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), one of The Five Fundamental Works of Spiritism, is published by the French educator Allan Kardec.

Births

*4 January - Émile Cohl, caricaturist, cartoonist and animator (d.1938).
*26 February - Émile Coué, psychologist and pharmacist (d.1926).
*3 March - Alfred Bruneau, composer (d.1934).
*22 March - Paul Doumer, President of France (assassinated) (d.1932).
*30 March - Léon Charles Thévenin, telegraph engineer (d.1926).
*29 June - Jean-François Klobb, colonial officer (d.1899).

Full date unknown

*Eugène Atget, photographer (d.1927).
*Georges Bénédite, Egyptologist (d.1926).
*Eugène Gley, physiologist and endocrinologist (d.1930).

Deaths

*22 February - Joseph Crétin, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (b.1799).
*2 May - Alfred de Musset, dramatist, poet and novelist (b.1810).
*11 May - Eugène François Vidocq, criminal, later first director of Sûreté Nationale (b.1775).
*17 May - Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, geographer, naturalist, historian and artist (b.1777).
*23 May - Augustin Louis Cauchy, mathematician (b.1789).
*30 June - Alcide d'Orbigny, naturalist (b.1802).
*29 July - Charles Lucien Bonaparte, naturalist and ornithologist (b.1803).
*3 August - Eugène Sue, novelist (b.1804).
*5 September - Auguste Comte, philosopher (b.1798).
*28 October - Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, General (b.1802).
*23 December - Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer (b.1800).

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