1895 in France

← 1894 1893 1892 1891 1890 1895 in France → 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
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Events from the year 1895 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Jean Casimir-Perier (until 15 January), Felix Faure (starting 16 January)
• President of the Council of Ministers:
  • until 26 January: Charles Dupuy
  • 26 January-1 November: Alexandre Ribot
  • starting 1 November: Léon Bourgeois

Events

• 5 January – The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris.
• 17 January – Félix Faure was elected President of French Republic after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier.
• 17 January – Dreyfus is moved into a military reformatory on the island of Ré.
• 21 February – Dreyfus is put on board ship to be exiled.
• 15 March – Dreyfus is landed on Devil's Island.
• 28 December – Auguste and Louis Lumière display the first moving picture film, in Paris.

Births

January to March

• 29 January – Pierre Gaxotte, historian (died 1982)
• 11 February – Maurice Cottenet, soccer player (died 1972)
• 28 February – Marcel Pagnol, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker (died 1974)
• 2 March – Marcel Carpentier, military officer (died 1977)
• 16 March – Ernest Labrousse, historian (died 1988)
• 20 March – Robert Benoist, motor racing driver and war hero (executed) (died 1944)
• 30 March – Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (died 1990)
• 30 March – Jean Giono, author (died 1970)

April to June

• 5 April – Fernand Mourlot, printer and publisher (died 1988)
• 3 May – Gabriel Chevallier, novelist (died 1969)
• 4 May – René Mayer, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1972)
• 11 May – Jacques Brugnon, tennis player (died 1978)
• 9 June – Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter, film director and producer (died 1972)
• 12 June – Eugénie Brazier, cook (died 1977)

July to September

• 2 July – Gen Paul, painter and engraver (died 1975)
• 7 August – Alain Saint-Ogan, comics author and artist (died 1974)
• 18 September – Jean Batmale, soccer player (died 1973)

October to December

• 9 October – René Lasserre, rugby union player (died 1965)
• 3 November – Pierre Richard-Willm, actor (died 1983)
• 5 November – Walter Gieseking, pianist and composer (died 1956)
• 20 November – Pierre Cot, politician (died 1977)
• 20 November – Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (died 1988)
• 27 November – Pierre-Paul Grassé, zoologist (died 1985)
• 29 November – Edgard de Larminat, General (died 1962)
• 9 December – Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (died 1967)
• 14 December – Paul Éluard, poet (died 1952)

Full date unknown

• Roger Blaizot, General (died 1981)
• Albert Gilles, copper craftsman (died 1979)

Deaths

January to June

• 10 January – Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (born 1849)
• 29 January – Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (born 1822)
• 16 February – André Garin, missionary and parish priest (born 1822)
• 19 February – Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (born 1819)
• 22 April – Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist, introduced the Gypsy Moth into North America (born 1827)
• 11 May – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, professor of apologetics (born 1834)
• 22 May – Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (born 1817)
• 28 May – Alexandre Martin, socialist statesman (born 1815)

July to December

• 19 July – Henri Ernest Baillon, botanist and physician (born 1827)
• 28 September – Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (born 1822)
• 24 November – Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, philosopher, journalist and statesman (born 1805)
• 27 November – Alexandre Dumas, fils, writer, author and playwright (born 1824)
• 11 December – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic (born 1825)

Full date unknown

• Louis-Florentin Calmeil, psychiatrist and medical historian (born 1798)
• Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, missionary, explorer and botanist (born 1834)
• Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, historian (born 1820)

See also

• List of French films before 1910