1871 in France

Events from the year 1871 in France.

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3 January - Battle of Bapaume. Prussian victory in continuing Franco-Prussian War.
10 January - Besieged city of Péronne surrenders to Prussian forces.
10 January-12 January - Battle of Le Mans, ends French resistance in western France.
15 January-17 January - Battle of the Lisaine. Prussian victory.
19 January - Battle of St. Quentin. Prussian victory defeated French attempts to relieve the besieged city of Paris.
19 January-20 January - Battle of Buzenval. Prussian victory.
28 January - Siege of Paris ends, with the city falling to Prussian forces.
8 February - Legislative election held.
15 February - Armistice signed between France and Prussia.
18 February - Siege of Belfort ends with surrender of French garrison.
26 March - The Paris Commune is formally established.
Treaty of Versailles ends the Franco-Prussian War.
10 May - Treaty of Frankfurt is signed confirming the frontiers.
21 May-30 May - Government troops invade Paris Commune and crush the rebellion.
2 July - Legislative election held.
31 August - Adolphe Thiers becomes President.
27 October - The Comte de Chambord refuses to be crowned 'King Henry V of France' until France abandons its tricolour and returns to the old Bourbon flag.

7 January - Émile Borel, mathematician and politician (d.1956).
6 May - Victor Grignard, chemist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (d.1935).
27 May - Georges Rouault, painter and printmaker (d.1958).
10 July - Marcel Proust, novelist, essayist and critic (d.1922).
29 August - Albert Lebrun, politician and President of France (d.1950).
30 October - Paul Valéry, poet, essayist and philosopher (d.1945).