1867 in France
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Events from the year 1867 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 13 January - French Military Mission arrives in Yokohama, Japan.
- Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.
[edit] Births
- 21 January - Maxime Weygand, military commander (d.1965).
- 14 April - René Boylesve, author (d.1926).
- 17 May - Georgette Agutte, painter (d.1922).
- 3 October - Pierre Bonnard, painter and printmaker (d.1947).
[edit] Deaths
- 14 January - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, painter (b.1780).
- 11 June - Jean Pierre Pellissier, missionary to Southern Africa (b.1808).
- 31 July - Benoît Fourneyron, engineer, designed the first practical water turbine (b.1802).
- 31 August - Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator (b.1821).
