1881 in France
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Events from the year 1881 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Jules Grévy
- President of the Council of Ministers: Jules Ferry (until 14 November), Charles de Freycinet (starting 14 November)
Events
- 13 February â First issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is published by Hubertine Auclert.
- 23 March â A fire caused by a gas explosion destroys the Opéra de Nice with fatalities.
- April â Sixth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at Nadar's studio.[1]
- 12 May â Treaty of Bardo is signed between the French Republic and Tunisian bey Muhammed as-Sadiq. Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
- 29 July â Law on the Freedom of the Press is passed.
- 15 Augustâ15 November â International Exposition of Electricity staged in Paris. Among new developments demonstrated is Clément Ader's stereophonic théâtrophone.[2]
- 13 October â Determined to bring about the revival of the Hebrew language as a way of unifying Jews, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda has what is believed to be the first conversation in Modern Hebrew, with friends living in Paris.
Literature
Births
- 11 January â Lucien Rosengart, engineer (died 1976)
- 21 January â André Godard, archeologist and architect (died 1965)
- 19 February â Paul Tournon, architect (died 1964)
- 20 February â Julien Maitron, cyclist (died 1972)
- 21 February â Marc Boegner, theologist, pastor, French Resistance member and essayist (died 1970)
- 18 March â Paul Le Flem, composer and musician (died 1984)
- 23 March â Roger Martin du Gard, author, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature (died 1958)
- 12 April â Ãlisée Maclet, painter (died 1962)
- 1 May - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist, Jesuit priest (died 1955)
- 21 June â Camille Drevet, anti-colonialist, feminist and pacifist activist (died 1969)
- 27 June â Jérôme Carcopino, historian and author (died 1970)
- 29 July â Paul Couturier, priest and promoter of the concept of Christian unity (died 1953)
- 7 August â François Darlan, Admiral (died 1942)
- 10 October â Gaston Ragueneau, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1978)
- 4 November â Gaby Deslys, dancer and actress (died 1920)
- 8 November â Robert Esnault-Pelterie, pioneering aircraft designer (died 1957)
- 5 December â René Cresté, actor and director (died 1922)
- 12 December - Louise Thuliez, resistance fighter in World War I and World War II (died 1966)[3]
Deaths
- 19 January â Auguste Mariette, scholar and archaeologist (born 1821)
- 13 February â Alexis Paulin Paris, scholar and author (born 1800)
- 17 February â Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician (born 1826).
- 1 March â Ãdouard Drouyn de Lhuys, statesman and diplomat (born 1805)
- 24 March â Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist (born 1817)
- 26 March â Jules Achille Noël, painter (born 1815)
- 4 April â Napoléon Peyrat, author and historian (born 1809)
- 27 April â Ãmile de Girardin, journalist, publicist and politician (born 1802)
- 2 June
- Ãmile Littré, lexicographer and philosopher (born 1801)
- Pierre Louis Rouillard, sculptor (born 1820)
- 28 June â Jules Armand Dufaure, statesman (born 1798)
- 9 July â Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, author (born 1827)
- 21 December â Ãdouard Dulaurier, Orientalist and Egyptologist (born 1807)