1874 in France
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See also: 1873 in France, other events of 1874, 1875 in France.
Events from the year 1874 in France.
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[edit] Events
[edit] Arts and Literature
- 23 January - Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered.
- 25 April - Louis Leroy reviews the first Impressionist exhibition, held in Paris, and coins the term with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
[edit] Births
- 21 January - René-Louis Baire, mathematician (d.1932).
- 22 March - Jean Cau, rower.
- 3 May - François Coty, perfume manufacturer (d.1934).
- 14 May - Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (d.1939).
- 29 July - Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (d.1953).
- 4 September - Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise, great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (d.1940).
- 6 December - Lucien Démanet, gymnast.
- 24 December - Yves Le Febvre, writer and politician (d.1959).
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- Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (d.1950).
- Henri Bénard, physicist (d.1939).
- Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (d.1943).
[edit] Deaths
- 8 January - Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist (b.1814).
- 13 January - Victor Baltard, architect (b.1805).
- 26 January - Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, entomologist (b.1799).
- 4 April - Charles Ernest Beulé, archaeologist and politician (b.1826).
- 15 May - Auguste Carayon, Jesuit author and bibliographer (b.1813).
- 30 June - Blanche d'Antigny, singer and actress (b.1840).
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- Louis Aubert-Roche, physician (b.1810).
- Jean Cruveilhier, anatomist (b.1791).
- Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu, photographer (b.1800).
- Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant, astronomer (b.1795).
