1893 in France

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Events from the year 1893 in France.

Events

10 March - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
16–17 August – Massacre of Italian workers of the Compagnie des Salins du Midi in Aigues-Mortes (France) by French villagers and workers. Anti-French riots erupt in Italy. In Rome the windows of the French Embassy were smashed and for a while the angry mob seemed to get out of hand.
20 August - Legislative election held.
3 September - Legislative election held.
10 October - First car number plates in Paris.

28 July - Alfred Eluère, rugby union player (died 1985).
15 August - Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (died 1977).
15 August - Pierre Dac, humorist and French Resistance activist (died 1975).
17 August - Jean Laigret, biologist (died 1966).
19 October - Henri Mignet, aircraft designer and builder (died 1965).
1 November - Pierre Deley, pioneering pilot (died 1981).
5 November - Raymond Loewy, industrial designer (died 1986).
3 December - Edmond Decottignies, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1963).
8 December - Pierre Etchebaster, real tennis player (died 1980).
31 December - Robert Jacquinot, cyclist (died 1980).

10 January - Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada (born 1832).
4 April - Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist (born 1806).
12 April - Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame, printer and publisher (born 1811).
16 August - Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology (born 1825).
17 October - Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, general and politician, first President of the Third Republic (born 1808).
18 October - Charles Gounod, composer (born 1818).
4 November - Pierre Tirard, politician (born 1827).
8 November - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1815).

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