1891 in France
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Events from the year 1891 in France.
Events
- 1 May – Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies.
- 27 August – France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.
Arts and literature
- Gustave Moreau becomes a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Births
January to June
- 2 January – Didier Daurat, aviation pioneer (died 1969)
- 14 January – Félix Goethals, cyclist (died 1962)
- 19 April – Françoise Rosay, actress (died 1974)
July to September
- 7 July – Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (died 1972)
- 11 July – Gabriel Benoist, writer (died 1964)
- 21 July – Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (died 1972)
- 6 August – Yvette Andréyor, actress (died 1962)
- 9 August – Joseph-Marie Martin, Cardinal (died 1976)
- 15 August – Jean De Briac, actor (died 1970)
- 3 September – Marcel Grandjany, harpist and composer (died 1975)
- 10 September – Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (died 2001)
- 26 September – Charles Münch, conductor and violinist (died 1968)
October to December
- 10 October – Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (died 1977)
- 17 November – Jean Del Val, actor (died 1975)
- 15 December – Martial Guéroult, philosopher and historian of philosophy (died 1976)
- 26 December – Jean Galtier-Boissière, writer, polemist and journalist (died 1966)
- 30 December – Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1994)
Deaths
January to June
- 14 January – Aimé Millet, sculptor (born 1819)
- 16 January – Léo Delibes, composer (born 1836)
- 21 January – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor (born 1815)
- 15 March – Théodore de Banville, poet and writer (born 1823)
- 29 March – Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel, Bishop of Toronto (born 1802)
- 29 March – Georges-Pierre Seurat, painter (born 1859)
- 24 May – Joseph Roumanille, poet (born 1818)
July to December
- 7 July – Célestin Joseph Félix, Jesuit (born 1810)
- 29 August – Pierre Lallement, bicycle inventor (b. c. 1843)
- 5 September – Elie Delaunay, painter (born 1828)
- 30 September – Georges Ernest Boulanger, general and politician (born 1837)
- 3 October – Édouard Lucas, mathematician (born 1842)
- 10 November – Arthur Rimbaud, poet (born 1854)
- 12 December – Charles Émile Freppel, Bishop and politician (born 1827)
- December – Émile Bayard, illustrator (born 1837)
Full date unknown
- Eugène Bouchut, physician (born 1818)