1885 in France
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Events from the year 1885 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Jules Grévy
- President of the Council of Ministers: Jules Ferry (until 6 April), Henri Brisson (starting 6 April)
Events
- 28 February â Siege of Tuyên Quang ends, as French Foreign Legion is relieved after being besieged by forces of the Empire of China.
- 23 March â Battle of Bang Bo in Vietnam, significant battle of the Sino-French War and French defeat, leading to the Tonkin Affair, a major political crisis.
- 28 March â French abandon Lạng SÆ¡n.
- 9 June â Sino-French War ends as treaty is signed.
- 14 October â Legislative Election held.
- 18 October â Legislative Election held.
- November â First train crosses Garabit viaduct in the Massif Central.
Literature
Births
January to June
- 8 January â Charles Basle, American auto racer (died 1962)
- 22 January â Eugène Christophe, cyclist (died 1970)
- 28 January â Maurice Brocco, cyclist (died 1965)
- 1 February â Camille Chautemps, politician, three times Prime Minister of France (died 1963)
- 3 February â Camille Arambourg, paleontologist (died 1970)
- 6 March â Yvonne Gall, operatic soprano (died 1972)
- 16 March â Fernand Baldet, astronomer (died 1964)
- 23 March â Yves le Prieur, naval officer and inventor (died 1963)
- 6 April â Jules Goux, motor racing driver (died 1965)
- 5 June â Georges Mandel, politician and Resistance leader (executed 1944)
- 15 June â Roland Dorgelès, novelist (died 1973)
- 27 June â Pierre Montet, Egyptologist (died 1966)
July to December
- 5 July â André Lhote, sculptor and painter (died 1962)[1]
- 26 July â André Maurois, author and man of letters (died 1967)
- 26 August â Jules Romains, poet and writer (died 1972)
- 31 August â Lucien Chopard, entomologist (died 1971)
- 15 September â Marcel Allain, writer (died 1970)
- 11 October â François Mauriac, author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1970)
- 25 October â Xavier Lesage, horse rider, Olympic gold medallist (died 1969)[2]
- 10 November â Lou Albert-Lasard, painter (died 1969)
- 23 December â Pierre Brissaud, illustrator, painter and engraver (died 1964)
Deaths
- 10 January â Amable Tastu, woman of letters (born 1795).
- 16 January â Edmond François Valentin About, novelist, publicist and journalist (born 1828)
- 18 April â Marc Monnier, writer (born 1827)
- 3 May â Paul-Quentin Desains, physicist (born 1817)
- 18 May â Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, painter (born 1835)
- 22 May â Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist and statesman (born 1802)
- June â Amédée Courbet, admiral (born 1828)
- 29 July â Henri Milne-Edwards, zoologist (born 1800)
- 17 December â Augustus Thébaud, Jesuit educator and publicist (born 1807)
- 24 December â Louis Prosper Gachard, man of letters (born 1800)