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Events from the year 1874 in France.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta
- President of the Council of Ministers: Albert, duc de Broglie (until 22 May), Ernest Courtot de Cissey (starting 22 May)
Events
[edit]- 15 March – France and the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
Arts and literature
[edit]- 23 January – Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered.
- 25 April – Louis Leroy reviews the First Impressionist Exhibition, held in Paris, and coins the term with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
Births
[edit]January to June
[edit]- 21 January – René-Louis Baire, mathematician (died 1932)
- 19 February – Rose Gelbert, golfer (died 1956)[1]
- 22 March – Jean Cau, rower.
- 3 May – François Coty, perfume manufacturer (died 1934)
- 14 May – Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (died 1939)
July to December
[edit]- 29 July – Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (died 1953)
- 4 September – Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise, great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (died 1940)
- 4 October – Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (died 1950)
- 25 October – Henri Bénard, physicist (died 1939)
- 2 November – Georges Andrique, painter (died 1964)
- 14 November – André-Gaston Prételat, general (died 1969)
- 5 December – Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (died 1943)
- 6 December – Lucien Démanet, gymnast
- 24 December – Yves Le Febvre, writer and politician (died 1959)
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympedia – Rose Gelbert". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 20 July 2021.