1879 in France
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Events from the year 1879 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta (until 30 January) Jules Grévy (starting 30 January)
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- until 4 February: Jules Armand Dufaure
- 4 February-28 December: William Waddington.[1]
- starting 28 December: Charles de Freycinet
Events
- April â Postman Ferdinand Cheval begins to build his Palais Idéal at Hauterives.[2]
- 1 June â Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial (Napoléon IV), great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist Pretender to the throne, dies in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War.[3]
- 17 July â Freycinet Plan enacted to extend rail and other transportation systems.
- "La Marseillaise" is restored as the French national anthem.[4]
Literature
Music
Births
- 22 January â Francis Picabia, painter and poet (died 1953)
- 4 February â Jacques Copeau, journalist, actor, playwright, director, teacher (died 1949)
- 23 March â René Jeannel, entomologist (died 1965)
- 20 April â Paul Poiret, fashion designer (died 1944)
- 5 June â René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (died 1907)
- 9 June â Joseph Avenol, 2nd Secretary General of the League of Nations (died 1952)
- 1 July â Léon Jouhaux, trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951 (died 1954)
- 13 July â Eugène Freyssinet, structural and civil engineer (died 1962)
- 11 September â Louis Coatalen, automobile engineer and racing driver (died 1962 in the United Kingdom)
- 23 September â Charles Camoin, painter (died 1965)
- 21 October â Joseph Canteloube, composer (died 1957)
- 17 December â Jean-Marie Charles Abrial, Admiral and Minister (died 1962)
- 31 December â Joseph Darnand, Bishop (died 1962)
Deaths
- 10 February â Honoré Daumier, printmaker, caricaturist, painter and sculptor (born 1808)
- 25 February â Jean-Baptiste Glaire, Roman Catholic priest and Hebrew and Biblical scholar (born 1798)
- 2 March â Jules Bastide, publicist (born 1800)
- 30 March â Thomas Couture, painter and teacher (born 1815)
- 16 April - Bernadette Soubirous, nun and visionary of Lourdes apparitions (born 1844)
- 20 May â Pierre-Jules Mêne, sculptor (born 1810)
- 29 May â Pierre Adolphe Piorry, physician (born 1794)
- 1 June â Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo (born 1856)
- 26 August â Charles Marie Edouard Chassaignac, physician (born 1805)
- 6 September â Amédée de Noé, caricaturist and lithographer (born 1818)
- 17 September â Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, architect and theorist (born 1814)
- 12 November â Jean-Charles Chenu, physician and naturalist (born 1808)
- 18 November
- Michel Chevalier, engineer, statesman and economist (born 1806)
- André Giroux, photographer and painter (born 1801)
- 19 November â Jean-Joseph Gaume, Roman Catholic theologian and author (born 1802)
- 29 December â Jean Ãtienne Bercé, entomologist (born 1803)