1861 in France
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Events from the year 1861 in France.
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Incumbents
Events
- News of Henri Mouhot's discovery of Angkor Wat is published.
Births
- 1 January â Jacques Ãmile Blanche, painter (died 1942)
- 15 February â Charles Ãdouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (died 1938)
- 21 February â Pierre de Bréville, composer (died 1949)
- 30 October â Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (died 1929)
- 2 November â Maurice Blondel, philosopher (died 1949)
- 8 December
- Aristide Maillol, sculptor (died 1944)
- Georges Méliès, filmmaker (died 1938)
- 16 December â Antonio de La Gandara, painter and draughtsman (died 1917)
Deaths
- 5 February â Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (born 1810)
- 10 April â Ãdouard Ménétries, entomologist (born 1802)
- 14 July â Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (born 1783)
- 24 August â Pierre Berthier, geologist and mining engineer (born 1782)
- 22 September â Rose Chéri, actress (born 1824)
- 10 November â Henri Mouhot, naturalist and explorer (born 1826)
- 10 November â Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (born 1805)
- 15 November â David Carcassonne, physician (born 1789)
- 20 November â Pierre Frédéric Sarrus, mathematician (born 1798)
- 21 November â Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist (born 1802)
- 25 November â Ferdinand Eckstein, philosopher and playwright (born 1790 in Denmark)
Full date unknown
- Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer, violinist and conductor (born 1789)
- Marie-Alfred de Suin, French vice-admiral and commander (born 1796)