1874 in France
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Events from the year 1874 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta
- President of the Council of Ministers: Albert, duc de Broglie (until 22 May), Ernest Courtot de Cissey (starting 22 May)
Events
- 23 January â Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered.
- 15 March â France and the Nguyá» n dynasty of Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
- 25 April â Louis Leroy reviews the First Impressionist Exhibition, held in Paris, and coins the term with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
Literature
Music
Births
January to June
- 21 January â René-Louis Baire, mathematician (died 1932)
- 19 February â Rose Gelbert, golfer (died 1956)[1]
- 22 March â Jean Cau, rower.
- 3 May â François Coty, perfume manufacturer (died 1934)
- 14 May â Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (died 1939)
July to December
- 29 July â Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (died 1953)
- 4 September â Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise, great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (died 1940)
- 4 October â Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (died 1950)
- 25 October â Henri Bénard, physicist (died 1939)
- 2 November â Georges Andrique, painter (died 1964)
- 14 November â André-Gaston Prételat, general (died 1969)
- 5 December â Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (died 1943)
- 6 December â Lucien Démanet, gymnast
- 24 December â Yves Le Febvre, writer and politician (died 1959)
Deaths
- 8 January â Abbé Charles Ãtienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, writer, historian (born 1814)
- 9 February â Jules Michelet, historian (born 1798)[2]
- 26 August â Julie-Victoire Daubié, journalist (born 1824)
- 12 September â François Guizot, Prime Minister (born 1787)
- 22 December â Louis Aubert-Roche, physician (born 1818)