1891 in France

Events from the year 1891 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

1 May â Fusillade de Fourmies, nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies.^[1]
27 August â France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.^[2]
Gustave Moreau becomes a professor at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.^[3]
Henri Matisse begins his studies as an artist at Ãcole des Beaux-Arts

11 July
- Gabriel Benoist, writer (died 1964)
- Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, aviator (died 1944)
21 July â Marcel-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Lubin-LebrÃ¨re, rugby union player (died 1972)
1 August â Charles Ritz, hotelier and fly fisherman (died 1976)
6 August â Yvette AndrÃ©yor, actress (died 1962)
9 August â Joseph-Marie Martin, cardinal (died 1976)
15 August â Jean De Briac, actor (died 1970)
3 September â Marcel Grandjany, harpist and composer (died 1975)
10 September â Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (died 2001)
26 September â Charles MÃ¼nch, conductor and violinist (died 1968)

10 October â Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (died 1977)
17 November â Jean Del Val, actor (died 1975)
23 December â Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (died 1972)
26 December â Jean Galtier-BoissiÃ¨re, writer, polemist and journalist (died 1966)
30 December â Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1994)