1886 in France
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See also: 1885 in France, other events of 1886, 1887 in France.
Events from the year 1886 in France.
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[edit] Events
[edit] Arts and Literature
- 30 November - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
Georges Seurat begins to paint Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte sometimes this year
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- 5 March - Léon Mathot, actor and film director (d.1968).
- 7 March - Jacques Majorelle, painter (d.1962).
- 7 March - René Thomas, motor racing driver (d.1975).
- 29 March - Paul Amiot, actor (d.1979).
- 15 April - Amédée Ozenfant, cubist painter (d.1966).
- 19 April - Hermine David, painter (d.1970).
- 25 April - Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (d.2001).
- 29 April - Count Renaud de la Frégeolière, author and first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (d.1981).
- 3 May - Marcel Dupré, organist, pianist and composer (d.1971).
- 24 May - Paul Paray, conductor, organist and composer (d.1979).
[edit] July to December
- 16 July - Pierre Benoit, novelist (d.1962).
- 3 August - Henri Debain, actor (d.1983).
- 15 September - Paul Pierre Lévy, mathematician (d.1971).
- 16 September - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (d.1966).
- 30 September - Gaston Ramon, veterinarian and biologist (d.1963).
- 3 October - Alain-Fournier, author and soldier (d.1914).
- 4 October - Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister (d.1970).
- 6 November - André Marty, leading figure in the French Communist Party (d.1956).
- 15 November - René Guénon, orientalist and philosopher (d.1951).
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- Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, painter and sculptor (d.1965).
- Henri Chapron, automobile coachbuilder (d.1978).
- Georges Painvin, cryptanalyst (d.1980).
- Marie-Gabriel Tissot, Abbot of Quarr (d.1983).
[edit] Deaths
- 23 January - Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (b.1815).
- 27 April - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (b.1803).
- 17 March - Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (b.1814).
- 12 July - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (b.1803).
- 14 August - Edmond Laguerre, mathematician (b.1834).
- 16 September - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (b.1819).
- 26 September - Hippolyte Castille, writer (b.1820).
- 14 November - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, geologist and mineralogist (b.1820).
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- Pierre Edouard Frere, painter (b.1819).
- Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (b.1822).
