1869 in France

See also: 1868 in France, other events of 1869, 1870 in France.

Events from the year 1869 in France.

Events

• 23 May - Legislative election held.
• 6 June - Legislative election held to elect the fourth legislature of the French Second Empire.

Births

• 8 April - Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal (d.1936).
• 12 April - Henri Désiré Landru, serial killer (executed) (d.1922).
• 29 July - Paul Aymé, tennis player (d.1962).
• 22 November - André Gide, author and winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 (d.1951).
• 31 December - Henri Matisse, artist (d.1954).

Full date unknown

• Paul Émile Chabas, painter (d.1937).

Deaths

• 8 January - Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, geologist and metallurgist (b.1801).
• 8 March - Hector Berlioz, composer (b.1803).
• 8 June - Felix-Joseph Barbelin, Jesuit influential in the development of the Catholic community in Philadelphia (b.1808).
• 7 September - Auguste Simon Paris, notary and entomologist (b.1794).
• 13 October - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, literary critic (b.1804).
• 15 October - Charles Nicholas Aubé, physician and entomologist (b.1802).

Full date unknown

• Jean-Pierre Dantan, sculptor (b.1800).

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