1864 in France

See also: 1863 in France, other events of 1864, 1865 in France.

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Events from the year 1864 in France.

Events

• 10 April - Treaty of Miramar.
• Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth published.

Births

• 24 January - Marguerite Durand, actress, journalist and suffragette (d.1936).
• 1 March - Étienne Destot, radiologist and anatomist (d.1918).
• 16 March - Lucien Cayeux, sedimentary petrographer (d.1944).
• 10 May - Léon Gaumont, inventor, engineer, film pioneer and industrialist (d.1946).
• 11 November - Maurice Leblanc, novelist and short story writer (d.1941).
• 24 November - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (d.1901).
• 8 December - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (d.1943).
• 28 December - Henri de Régnier, poet (d.1936).

Deaths

• 28 January - Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, engineer and physicist (b.1799).
• 1 February - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, Petite-Fille de France (b.1819).
• 21 March - Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, painter (b.1809).
• 27 March - Jean-Jacques Ampère, philologist (b.1800).
• 22 May - Aimable Pélissier, Marshal of France (b.1794).
• 31 July - Louis Christophe François Hachette, publisher (b.1800).
• 1 September - Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin, social reformer (b.1796).

Full date unknown

• Jean Alaux, painter (b.1786).
• Charles Julien Brianchon, mathematician and chemist (b.1783).
• Joseph Déjacque, anarcho-communist poet and writer (b.1821).
• Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, Roman Catholic Bishop and writer (b.1798).