1873 in France
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Events from the year 1873 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Adolphe Thiers (until 24 May), Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta (starting 24 May)
- President of the Council of Ministers: Jules Armand Dufaure (until 24 May), Albert, duc de Broglie (starting 24 May)
Events
- 16 September â German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.
- 27 October - Henry, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned 'King Henry V of France' until France abandons its tricolour and returns to the old Bourbon flag.
- 21 December â Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.
Literature
Music
Births
- 2 January â Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (died 1897)
- 28 January â Colette, writer (died 1954)
- 2 February â Maurice Tourneur, film director and screenwriter (died 1961)
- 19 February â Louis Feuillade, film director (died 1925)
- 17 May â Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist (died 1935)
- 28 June â Alexis Carrel, surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1944)
- 1 July â Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer filmmaker, first female film director (died 1968 in the United States)[1]
- 4 August â
- Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician (died 1972)
- Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist (died 1972)
- 14 August
- Madeleine Fournier-Sarlovèze, golfer (died 1962)[2]
- Alice Jouenne educator, socialist activist, and writer (died 1954)
- 8 September â Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist (died 1907)
- 25 November â Pierre Lacau, Egyptologist and philologist (died 1963)
Deaths
- 10 January â Napoleon III of France, first President of the French Republic and only emperor of the Second French Empire (born 1808)
- 23 January â Louis Gustave Ricard, painter (born 1823)
- 1 April â Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters (born 1801)
- 16 April â Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (born 1839)
- 4 May â Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral (born 1807)
- 16 June â Eugène Flachat, civil engineer (born 1802)
- 18 July â Philarète Chasles, critic and man of letters (born 1798)
- 8 August â Antoine Chintreuil, painter (born 1814)
- 7 September â Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (born 1807)
- 21 September â Auguste Nélaton, physician and surgeon (born 1807)
- 23 September â Jean Chacornac, astronomer (born 1823)