1858 in France

See also: 1857 in France, other events of 1858, 1859 in France.

Events from the year 1858 in France.

Events

• 14 January - Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Executed on March 13 of the same year by the guillotine.
• 11 February - The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to St Bernadette of Lourdes.

Births

• 6 January - Sébastien Faure, anarchist, (d.1942).
• 9 January - Maurice Couette, physicist (d.1943).
• 21 January - Mélanie Bonis, composer (d.1937).
• 7 February - Amédée-François Lamy, military officer (d.1900).
• 15 April - Émile Durkheim, sociologist (d.1917).
• 19 May - Roland Bonaparte, prince, president of the Société de Géographie (d.1924).
• 28 August - Charles le Bargy, actor and film director (d.1936).
• August - Guy d'Hardelot, composer, pianist and teacher (d.1936).

Full date unknown

• André Antoine, actor-manager (d.1943).

Deaths

• 15 January - Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, statesman, minister and governor of the Bank of France (b.1782).
• 27 March - Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (b.1775).
• 9 April - Auguste François Chomel, pathologist (b.1788).
• 3 May - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet (b.1803).
• 21 May - Charles-Louis Havas, writer and founder of Agence France-Presse (b.1783).
• 10 July - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (b.1786).
• 3 December - Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (b.1817).

Full date unknown

• Joseph Paul Gaimard, naturalist (b.1796).
• Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis, diplomat and statesman (b.1778).
• Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, historian (b.1776).

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