1888 in France

See also: 1887 in France, other events of 1888, 1889 in France.

Events from the year 1888 in France.

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Full date unknown
4 References

Events

14 October - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Followed by his movie Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.

Births

January to March

8 January - Pierre Wertheimer, businessman and racehorse owner (d.1965).
9 January - Alfred Plé, rower and Olympic medallist (d.1980).
20 January - Georges Marrane, politician (d.1976).
4 February - Georges Girard, bacteriologist (d.1985).
20 February - Georges Bernanos, author (d.1948).
28 February - Eugène Bigot, composer and conductor (d.1965).
17 March - Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1983).

April to June

1 April - Lucien Callamand, actor (d.1968).
2 April - Roger Ducret, fencer and Olympic gold medallist (d.1962).
14 May - Lucien Berland, entomologist and arachnologist (d.1962).
15 May - Jean Wahl, philosopher (d.1974).
27 May - Louis Durey, composer (d.1979).
5 June - Armand Léon Annet, colonial governor (d.1973).

July to December

14 July - Jacques de Lacretelle, novelist (d.1985).
26 July - Marcel Jouhandeau, writer (d.1979).
31 July - Jean Moreau, politician (d.1972).
12 September - Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (d.1972).
16 September - Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister (d.1970).
24 September - Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, aeronautical engineer (d.1979).
30 September - Louis Lecoin, militant pacifist (d.1971).
6 October - Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (d.1918).
9 November - Jean Monnet, architect of European Unity (d.1979).
16 December - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (d.1967).

Full date unknown

Louis Antoine, mathematician (d.1971).
Georges Bénézé, philosopher (d.1978).
Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (d.1967).
Léonce Crenier, Roman Catholic monk and theologian (d.1963).
Francois Dupre, hotelier, art collector and horse breeder (d.1966).
Camille Le Mercier d'Erm, poet, historian and Breton nationalist (d.1978).
René Massigli, diplomat (d.1988).
Henri Pequet, pilot, flew first official airmail flight in 1911 (d.1974).

Deaths

18 January - Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer (b.1807).
23 January - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (b.1815).
13 February - Jean-Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (b.1814).
20 February - François Perrier, general and geodesist (b.1835).
22 February - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (b.1815).
15 March - Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (b.1820).
16 March - Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (b.1801).
29 March - Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer and pianist (b.1813).
1 April - Jules Émile Planchon, botanist (b.1823).
11 April - Louis-Frédéric Brugère, professor of apologetics and church history (b.1823).
14 July - Antoine Étex, sculptor, painter and architect (b.1808).
9 August - Charles Cros, poet and inventor (b.1842).

Full date unknown

Pierre Bossan, architect (b.1814).
Arsène Darmesteter, philologist (b.1846).

References