1890 in France
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Events from the year 1890 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Marie François Sadi Carnot
- President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Tirard (until 17 March), Charles de Freycinet (starting 17 March)
Events
- 21 February â First Franco-Dahomean War begins.
- 1 March â Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as Minister of the Interior.
- 4 March â Battle of Cotonou, attack on French positions repulsed.
- 27 July â Death of Vincent van Gogh: van Gogh perhaps paints Tree Roots at Auvers-sur-Oise, then apparently shoots himself, dying two days later.
- 4 October â First Franco-Dahomean War ends in French victory.
- 9 October â The first brief flight of Clément Ader's steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft Ader Ãole takes place in Satory. It flies uncontrolled approximately 50 m (160 ft) at a height of 20 cm (7.9 in), the first take-off of a powered airplane solely under its own power.[1][2][3]
- Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts is founded. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is president and co-founder.
Literature
Births
January to June
- 19 January â Ãlise Rivet, nun and World War II heroine (died 1945)
- 1 February â Germaine Lubin, soprano (died 1979)
- 2 February â Jules Gros, Breton linguist (died 1992)
- 24 March â Robert Schurrer, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1972)
- 6 April â André-Louis Danjon, astronomer (died 1967)
- 21 April â Eugène Séguy, entomologist (died 1985)
- 29 April â Daisy Fellowes, society figure, writer and heiress (died 1962)
- 29 May â Robert Desoille, psychotherapist (died 1966)
- 12 June â Théophile Alajouanine, neurologist (died 1980)
July to December
- 4 July â Jacques Carlu, architect and designer (died 1976)
- 27 July â Jacques Forestier, rheumatologist (died 1978)
- 15 August â Jacques Ibert, composer (died 1962)
- 23 August â Marcelle Lalou, Tibetologist (died 1967)
- 25 September â Honoré Barthélemy, cyclist (died 1964)
- 22 November â Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President (died 1970)
- 29 November â Maurice Genevoix, author (died 1980)
- 2 December â Jean Médecin, lawyer and politician (died 1965)
- 20 December â Yvonne Arnaud, actress (died 1958 in the United Kingdom)
- 25 December â André Lesauvage, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1971)
Full date unknown
- Henriette Sauret, feminist, author, pacifist, journalist (died 1976)
Deaths
- 25 January â Jean Gailhac, priest (born 1802)
- 13 July â Auguste Jean François Grenier, doctor and entomologist (born 1814)
- 29 July â Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter (born 1853)
- 18 August â Albert Dubois-Pillet, painter and army officer (born 1846)
- 19 October â Ãmile Léonard Mathieu, mathematician (born 1835)
- 11 November â Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, adventurer (born 1842)
- 19 December â Eugène Lami, painter and lithographer (born 1800)