1856 in France
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Events from the year 1856 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 30 March - Treaty of Paris is signed by Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom, settling the Crimean War.
[edit] Births
- 1 February - Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist (d.1928).
- 16 March - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo (d.1879).
- 24 April - Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, later Chief of State of Vichy France (d.1951).
- 25 May - Louis Franchet d'Espérey, general during World War I (d.1942).
- 5 June - Gabrielle Réjane, actress (d.1920).
- 1 September - Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (d.1929).
- 29 October - Jacques Curie, physicist (d.1941).
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- Eugène Louis Bouvier, entomologist and carcinologist (d.1944).
- Thérèse Humbert, fraudster (d.1918).
[edit] Deaths
- 4 January - Pierre Jean David, sculptor (b.1788).
- March - Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux, actress (b.1810).
- 27 April - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (b.1806).
- 3 May - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (b.1803).
- 12 May - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b.1786).
- 12 October - Jean Bachelot La Pylaie, botanist, explorer and archaeologist (b.1786).
- 4 November - Hippolyte Delaroche, painter (b.1797).
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- Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, painter and miniaturist (b.1770).
