1867 in France

See also: 1866 in France, other events of 1867, 1868 in France.

Events from the year 1867 in France.

Events

• 13 January - French Military Mission arrives in Yokohama, Japan.
• 7 June - Adolphe Dugléré prepares the Three Emperors Dinner
• Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.

Births

• 21 January - Maxime Weygand, military commander (d.1965).
• 14 April - René Boylesve, author (d.1926).
• 17 May - Georgette Agutte, painter (d.1922).
• 3 October - Pierre Bonnard, painter and printmaker (d.1947).

Deaths

• 14 January - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, painter (b.1780).
• 17 January - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps, naturalist and palaeontologist (b.1794).
• 11 June - Jean Pierre Pellissier, missionary to Southern Africa (b.1808).
• 7 July - François Ponsard, dramatist (b.1814).
• 31 July - Benoît Fourneyron, engineer, designed the first practical water turbine (b.1802).
• 23 August - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, satirical poet (b.1796).
• 31 August - Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator (b.1821).
• 5 October - Achille Fould, financier and politician (b.1800).
• 6 December - Jean Pierre Flourens, physiologist (b.1794).
• 22 December - Jean-Victor Poncelet, engineer and mathematician (b.1788).

Full date unknown

• Louis Eugène Marie Bautain, philosopher and theologian (b.1796).
• Auguste Belloc, photographer (b.1800).
• Théophile-Jules Pelouze, chemist (b.1807).

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