1872 in France
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Events from the year 1872 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 27 November - Meteor shower display over France.
- Louis Ducos du Hauron creates the first color photograph.[1]
[edit] Births
- 18 January - Emmanuel d'Orléans, noble from the House of Orléans (d.1931).
- 7 June - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (d.1932).
- 1 July - Louis Blériot, inventor, engineer and aviation pioneer (d.1936).
- 2 July - Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, psychiatrist (d.1934).
- 15 July - Jean Dargassies, racing cyclist (d.1965).
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- Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the cinématographe (d.1932).
- Maurice de la Taille, priest and writer (d.1933).
- François-Victor Équilbecq, author (d.1917).
[edit] Deaths
- 6 February - Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, author and theologian (b.1805).
- 5 April - Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier, astronomer (b.1812).
- 20 June - Elie Frédéric Forey, Marshal of France (b.1804).
- 27 June - Michel Carré, librettist (b.1821).
- 5 July - Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers, surgeon (b.1808).
- 4 October - Jean-Jacques Bourassé, priest, archaeologist and historian (b.1813).
- 23 October - Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist, journalist, dramatist and literary critic (b.1811).
- 29 October - Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, chess master (b.1800).
- December - Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue, historian and biographer (b.1801).
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- Etienne Arnal, actor (b.1794).
