1888 in France
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Events from the year 1888 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Marie François Sadi Carnot
- President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Tirard (until 3 April), Charles Floquet (until 3 April)
Events
- 21 February â Vincent van Gogh moves to Arles where he will be very productive as a painter.
- 16 March â France annexes the Polynesian kingdom of Raiatea and Taha'a.
- 18 March â France annexes the Polynesian kingdom of Bora Bora.
- 8 April â The town of Mende, Lozère, becomes the first French administrative centre to have electric light installed.
- JulyâAugust â Strike of laborers in Paris.
- 8 July â Inauguration of Fontinettes boat lift on the Canal de Neufossé.
- 12 July â Georges Ernest Boulanger and his supporters win seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
- 2 October â Census of foreign residents.
- 14 October â Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (followed by Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge).
- 23 December â Having quarrelled with Gauguin, van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the hospital in Arles.
- Jeweller and glass designer René Lalique establishes the Lalique luxury goods business in Paris.
Literature
Music
- Claude Debussy - Ariettes oubliées
- Gabriel Fauré
- Pavane
- 2 Mélodies, Op. 46
- Caligula
- Emmanuel Chabrier - Joyeuse marche
- Erik Satie - Gymnopédies
Births
January to March
- 8 January â Pierre Wertheimer, businessman and racehorse owner (died 1965)
- 9 January â Alfred Plé, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1980)
- 20 January â Georges Marrane, politician (died 1976)
- 4 February â Georges Girard, bacteriologist (died 1985)
- 20 February â Georges Bernanos, author (died 1948)
- 1 February â Henri Pequet, pilot, flier of first official airmail flight in 1911 (died 1974)
- 28 February â Eugène Bigot, composer and conductor (died 1965)
- 7 March â Claude Roger-Marx, writer (died 1977)
- 17 March â Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1983)
- 22 March â René Massigli, diplomat (died 1988)
- 28 March â Léon Noël, diplomat, politician and historian (died 1987)
April to June
- 1 April â Lucien Callamand, actor (died 1968)
- 2 April â Roger Ducret, fencer and Olympic gold medallist (died 1962)
- 14 May â Lucien Berland, entomologist and arachnologist (died 1962)
- 15 May â Jean Wahl, philosopher (died 1974)
- 27 May â Louis Durey, composer (died 1979)
- 5 June â Armand Annet, colonial governor (died 1973)
July to December
- 14 July â Jacques de Lacretelle, novelist (died 1985)
- 26 July â Marcel Jouhandeau, writer (died 1979)
- 31 July
- Léonce Crenier, Roman Catholic monk and theologian (died 1963)
- Jean Moreau, politician (died 1972)
- 8 August â César Vezzani, opera singer (died 1951)
- 12 September â Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (died 1972)
- 16 September â Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister (died 1970)
- 24 September â Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, aeronautical engineer (died 1979)
- 30 September â Louis Lecoin, militant pacifist (died 1971)
- 6 October â Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (died 1918)
- 28 October â Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (died 1967)
- 9 November â Jean Monnet, architect of European Unity (died 1979)
- 23 November â Louis Antoine, mathematician (died 1971)
- 3 December â François Dupré, hotelier, art collector and horse breeder (died 1966)
- 16 December â Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (died 1967)
- 26 December â Marius Canard, orientalist (died 1982)
Full date unknown
- Georges Bénézé, philosopher (died 1978)
- Camille Le Mercier d'Erm, poet, historian and Breton nationalist (died 1978)
Deaths
- 18 January â Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer (born 1807)
- 23 January â Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (born 1815)
- 13 February â Jean-Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (born 1814)
- 20 February â François Perrier, general and geodesist (born 1835)
- 22 February â Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (born 1815)
- 15 March â Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (born 1820)
- 16 March â Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (born 1801)
- 29 March â Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer and pianist (born 1813)
- 1 April â Jules Ãmile Planchon, botanist (born 1823)
- 11 April â Louis-Frédéric Brugère, professor of apologetics and church history (born 1823)
- 14 July â Antoine Ãtex, sculptor, painter and architect (born 1808)
- 9 August â Charles Cros, poet and inventor (born 1842)
- 16 November â Arsène Darmesteter, philologist (born 1846)
Full date unknown
- Pierre Bossan, architect (born 1814)
- Ãmile Sagot, (1805â1888) illustrator and lithographer[1]