1886 in France

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Events from the year 1886 in France.

Events

15 May - Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.

30 November - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
Georges Seurat finishes painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte some time this year.

5 March - Léon Mathot, actor and film director (died 1968).
7 March - Jacques Majorelle, painter (died 1962).
7 March - René Thomas, motor racing driver (died 1975).
29 March - Paul Amiot, actor (died 1979).
15 April - Amédée Ozenfant, cubist painter (died 1966).
19 April - Hermine David, painter (died 1970).
25 April - Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (died 2001).
29 April - Count Renaud de la Frégeolière, author and first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (died 1981).
3 May - Marcel Dupré, organist, pianist and composer (died 1971).
24 May - Paul Paray, conductor, organist and composer (died 1979).

16 July - Pierre Benoit, novelist (died 1962).
3 August - Henri Debain, actor (died 1983).
8 September - Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, painter and sculptor (died 1965).
15 September - Paul Lévy, mathematician (died 1971).
16 September - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (died 1966).
30 September - Gaston Ramon, veterinarian and biologist (died 1963).
3 October - Alain-Fournier, author and soldier (died 1914).
4 October - Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister (died 1970).
6 November - André Marty, leading figure in the French Communist Party (died 1956).
15 November - René Guénon, orientalist and philosopher (died 1951).
30 December - Henri Chapron, automobile coachbuilder (died 1978).

23 January - Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (born 1815).
27 April - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (born 1803).
17 March - Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (born 1814).
23 May - Pierre Édouard Frère, painter (born 1819).
12 July - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (born 1803).
14 August - Edmond Laguerre, mathematician (born 1834).
8 September - Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (born 1822).
16 September - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (born 1819).
26 September - Hippolyte Castille, writer (born 1820).
14 November - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, geologist and mineralogist (born 1820).

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