1895 in France

See also: 1894 in France, other events of 1895, 1896 in France.

Events from the year 1895 in France.

Events

• 5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris.
• 17 January - Félix Faure was elected President of French Republic after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier.
• 17 January - Dreyfus is moved into a military reformatory on the island of Ré.
• 21 February - Dreyfus is put on board ship to be exiled.
• 15 March - Dreyfus is landed on Devil's Island.
• 28 December - Auguste and Louis Lumière display the first moving picture film, in Paris.

Births

January to June

• 29 January - Pierre Gaxotte, historian (died 1982).
• 11 February - Maurice Cottenet, soccer player (died 1972).
• 28 February - Marcel Pagnol, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker (died 1974).
• 2 March - Marcel Carpentier, military officer (died 1977).
• 20 March - Robert Benoist, motor racing driver and war hero (executed) (died 1944).
• 30 March - Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (died 1990).
• 30 March - Jean Giono, author (died 1970).
• 5 April - Fernand Mourlot, printer and publisher (died 1988).
• 3 May - Gabriel Chevallier, novelist (died 1969).
• 4 May - René Mayer, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1972).
• 11 May - Jacques Brugnon, tennis player (died 1978).
• 9 June - Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter, film director and producer (died 1972).

July to December

July to September

• 2 July - Gen Paul, painter and engraver (died 1975).
• 7 August - Alain Saint-Ogan, comics author and artist (died 1974).
• 18 September - Jean Batmale, soccer player (died 1973).

October to December

• 9 October - René Lasserre, rugby union player (died 1965).
• 3 November - Pierre Richard-Willm, actor (died 1983).
• 5 November - Walter Gieseking, pianist and composer (died 1956).
• 20 November - Pierre Cot, politician (died 1977).
• 20 November - Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (died 1988).
• 27 November - Pierre-Paul Grassé, zoologist (died 1985).
• 29 November - Edgard de Larminat, General (died 1962).
• 14 December - Paul Éluard, poet (died 1952).

Full date unknown

• Roger Blaizot, General (died 1981).
• Albert Gilles, copper craftsman (died 1979).
• Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (died 1967).
• Ernest Labrousse, historian (died 1988).
• Marcel LaFosse, musician and trumpeter (died 1969).

Deaths

January to June

• 10 January - Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (born 1849).
• 29 January - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (born 1822).
• 16 February - André Garin, missionary and parish priest (born 1822).
• 19 February - Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (born 1819).
• 22 April - Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist, introduced the Gypsy Moth into North America (born 1827).
• 11 May - Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, professor of apologetics (born 1834).
• 22 May - Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (born 1817).
• 28 May - Albert L'Ouvrier, socialist statesman (born 1815).

July to December

• 19 July - Henri Ernest Baillon, botanist and physician (born 1827).
• 28 September - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (born 1822).
• 24 November - Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, philosopher, journalist and statesman (born 1805).
• 27 November - Alexandre Dumas, fils, writer, author and playwright (born 1824).
• 11 December - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic (born 1825).

Full date unknown

• Louis-Florentin Calmeil, psychiatrist and medical historian (born 1798).
• Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, missionary, explorer and botanist (born 1834).
• Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, historian (born 1820).

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