1890 in France

See also: 1889 in France, other events of 1890, 1891 in France.

Events from the year 1890 in France.

Events

• 2 January - Steamship Persia wrecked off Corsica: 130 lives lost.
• 21 February - First Franco-Dahomean War begins.
• 1 March - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as Minister of the Interior.
• 4 March - Battle of Cotonou, attack on French positions repulsed.
• 4 October - First Franco-Dahomean War ends in French victory.

Arts and literature

• Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts is founded. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is president and co-founder.

Births

January to June

• 19 January - Élise Rivet, nun and World War II heroine (died 1945).
• 1 February - Germaine Lubin, soprano (died 1979).
• 24 March - Robert Schurrer, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1972).
• 6 April - André-Louis Danjon, astronomer (died 1967).
• 29 May - Robert Desoille, psychotherapist (died 1966).
• 12 June - Théophile Alajouanine, neurologist (died 1980).

July to December

• 4 July - Jacques Carlu, architect and designer (died 1976).
• 27 July - Jacques Forestier, rheumatologist (died 1978).
• 15 August - Jacques Ibert, composer (died 1962).
• 23 August - Marcelle Lalou, Tibetologist (died 1967).
• 25 September - Honoré Barthélemy, cyclist (died 1964).
• 22 November - Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President (died 1970).
• 29 November - Maurice Genevoix, author (died 1980).
• 2 December - Jean Médecin, lawyer and politician (died 1965).
• 25 December - André Lesauvage, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1971).

Full date unknown

• Jules Gros, Breton linguist (died 1992).
• Rita Jolivet, actress of American parentage (died 1971).
• Eugène Séguy, entomologist (died 1985).

Deaths

• 25 January - Jean Gailhac, priest (born 1802).
• 13 July - Auguste Jean François Grenier, doctor and entomologist (born 1814).
• 29 July - Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter (born 1853)
• 18 August - Albert Dubois-Pillet, painter and army officer (born 1846).
• 19 October - Émile Léonard Mathieu, mathematician (born 1835).
• 11 November - Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, adventurer (born 1842).
• 19 December - Eugène Lami, painter and lithographer (born 1800).

Full date unknown

• Alphonse de Polignac, mathematician (born 1817).

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