1860 in France

Events from the year 1860 in France.

Events

23 January - Cobden-Chevalier Treaty Free Trade treaty is signed between the United Kingdom and France.
9 April - Typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville has his daughter sing the song "Au Clair de la Lune" on his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording. However, it would not be rediscovered until 2008.
18 October - At the end of the Second Opium War, British and French troops enter the Forbidden City in Beijing.
24 October - Convention of Peking signed by Chinese with Britain and France.

11 February - Rachilde, author (d.1953).
25 June - Gustave Charpentier, composer (d.1956).
16 August - Jules Laforgue, poet (d.1887).
20 August - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France (d.1934).

29 January - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden (b.1789).
14 March - Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor (b.1812).
24 June - Jérôme Bonaparte, youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia (b.1784).
22 August - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (b.1803).
17 December - Désirée Clary, wife of King Charles XIV of Sweden and a one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte (b.1777).