1864 in France
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Events from the year 1864 in France.
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Napoleon III
Events
- 10 April â Second French intervention in Mexico: Treaty of Miramar.
- 4 May â Société Générale bank established in Paris.[1]
- 14 May â The Orgueil meteorite falls to earth.
- 19 June â American Civil War: Battle of Cherbourg - Confederate States Navy CSS Alabama is sunk in a single-ship action with USS Kearsarge in la Manche off the coast of Cherbourg Harbour.
- 5â6 September â Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An international naval fleet including three French ships defeats Japanese daimyÅ MÅri Takachika in the Shimonoseki Straits of Japan.
Arts and literature
- April â Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
- 11 May â The Winged Victory of Samothrace arrives at the Louvre.
- 26 May â Alexandre Dumas, fils marries Nadejda Naryschkine. His father, Alexandre Dumas, père, returns to Paris from Italy.
- 17 December â Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe La Belle Hélène receives its first performance at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris.
- Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre) is published.
Births
- 24 January â Marguerite Durand, actress, journalist and suffragette (died 1936).
- 1 March â Ãtienne Destot, radiologist and anatomist (died 1918).
- 16 March â Lucien Cayeux, sedimentary petrographer (died 1944).
- 10 May â Léon Gaumont, inventor, engineer, film pioneer and industrialist (died 1946).
- 11 November â Maurice Leblanc, novelist and short story writer (died 1941).
- 16 November â Stéphane Javelle, astronomer (died 1917)
- 24 November â Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (died 1901).
- 8 December â Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (died 1943).
- 28 December â Henri de Régnier, poet (died 1936).
Deaths
- 28 January â Benoît Paul Ãmile Clapeyron, engineer and physicist (born 1799).
- 1 February â Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, Petite-Fille de France (born 1819).
- 2 March â Jean Alaux, painter (born 1786).
- 4 March â John James Appleton, diplomat (born 1789)
- 21 March â Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, painter (born 1809).
- 27 March â Jean-Jacques Ampère, philologist (born 1800).
- 29 April â Charles Julien Brianchon, mathematician and chemist (born 1783).
- 22 May â Aimable Pélissier, Marshal of France (born 1794).
- 13 July â Célimène Gaudieux, musician and innkeeper (born 1807).[2]
- 31 July â Louis Christophe François Hachette, publisher (born 1800).
- 7 August â Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, Roman Catholic Bishop and writer (born 1798).
- 1 September â Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin, social reformer (born 1796).