1898 in France

"See also:"
1897 in France,
other events of 1898,
1899 in France.

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Events from the year 1898 in France.

Events

*13 January - Emile Zola's "J'Accuse" exposes the Dreyfus affair.
*7 February - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing "J'Accuse".
*23 February - Emile Zola is imprisoned after writing "J'accuse" which was a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
*8 May - Legislative election held.
*22 May - Legislative election held.
*September - Fashoda Incident between Britain and France in Eastern Africa.
*10 October - French military mission left for Chad (see: Battle of Togbao).
*November - Voulet-Chanoine Mission, military mission from Senegal to Chad.
*10 December - The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War is signed in Paris.
*26 December - Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call "radium".

Arts and Literature

Births

January to March

*27 January - Robert Levasseur, rugby union player (d.1974).
*8 February - Jean Charlot, painter and illustrator (d.1979).
*11 February - Henri de la Falaise, translator, film director and film producer (d.1972).
*18 February - Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (d.1977).
*4 March - Georges Dumézil, philologist (d.1986).
*8 March - Georges Gimel, painter (d.1962).

April to June

*6 April - Jeanne Hébuterne, artist and subject for Amedeo Modigliani (d.1920).
*15 May - Arletty, singer and actress (d.1992).
*16 May - Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor (d.1964).
*4 June - Émilienne Moreau-Evrard, hero of World War I and in French resistance during World War II (d.1971).
*15 June - André Debry, one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I (d.2005).
*29 June - Yvonne Lefébure, pianist (d.1986).

July to September

*5 July - André Badonnel, entomologist (d.1991).
*5 July - André Chilo, rugby union player (d.1982).
*5 July - Robert Lacoste, politician (d.1989).
*10 July - Pierre Mollaret, neurologist (d.1987).
*19 July - Étienne Decroux, actor and mime (d.1991).
*31 July - Henri Navarre, General (d.1983).
*13 August - Jean Borotra, tennis player (d.1994).
*13 September - Roger Désormière, conductor (d.1963).
*15 September - Philippe Hériat, novelist, playwright and actor (d.1971).
*16 September - Louis Jacquinot, lawyer and politician (d.1993).
*30 September - Renée Adorée, actress (d.1933).

October to December

*10 October - Lilly Daché, milliner and fashion designer (d.1989).
*10 October - Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician (d.1970).
*14 October - Maurice Martenot, cellist and inventor (d.1980).
*25 October - René-Yves Creston, artist, designer and ethnographer (d.1964).
*27 October - Élisabeth d'Ayen, tennis player (d.1969).
*31 October - Édouard Depreux, journalist, essayist and politician (d.1981).
*11 November - René Clair, filmmaker (d.1981).
*17 November - Maurice Journeau, composer (d.1999).
*5 December - Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (d.1994).

Full date unknown

*Marcel Boucher, jewellery designer (d.1965).
*Lise Deharme, writer (d.1979).
*François Ducaud-Bourget, priest (d.1984).
*Édouard Joly, aircraft designer (d.1982).
*Georges Malkine, painter (d.1970).
*Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General (d.2000).
*Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (d.1990).

Deaths

*18 April - Gustave Moreau, painter (b.1826).
*21 April - Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer (b.1819).
*7 July - Louis Buffet, statesman (b.1818).
*3 August - Charles Garnier, architect (b.1825).
*8 August - Eugène Boudin, painter (b.1824).
*9 September - Stéphane Mallarmé, poet and critic (b.1842).
*25 September - Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, anthropologist (b.1821).
*16 October - Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painter (b.1819).
*24 October - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (b.1824).
*17 November - Auguste-François Maunoury, Hellenist and exegete (b.1811).

Full date unknown

*Jean-André Cuoq, philologist (b.1821).

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