- 1874 in France
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1873 in France ,
other events of 1874,1875 in France .----
Events from the year
1874 inFrance .Events
Arts and Literature
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23 January -Camille Saint-Saëns ' composition "Danse Macabre" is premiered.
*25 April -Louis Leroy reviews the firstImpressionist exhibition, held inParis , and coins the term with reference toClaude Monet 's "Impression, Sunrise".Births
January to June
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21 January -René-Louis Baire , mathematician (d.1932).
*22 March - Jean Cau, rower.
*3 May -François Coty , perfume manufacturer (d.1934).
*14 May -Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud) , singer and actress (d.1939).July to December
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29 July -Auguste Giroux , rugby union player (d.1953).
*4 September -Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise , great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (d.1940).
*2 November -Georges Andrique , painter (d.1964).
*14 November -André-Gaston Prételat , General (d.1969).
*6 December -Lucien Démanet , gymnast.
*24 December -Yves Le Febvre , writer and politician (d.1959).Full date unknown
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Joseph d'Arbaud , poet (d.1950).
*Henri Bénard , physicist (d.1939).
*Henriette Caillaux , socialite and assassin (d.1943).Deaths
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8 January -Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg , writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist (b.1814).
*13 January -Victor Baltard , architect (b.1805).
*26 January -Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville , entomologist (b.1799).
*4 April -Charles Ernest Beulé ,archaeologist andpolitician (b.1826).
*15 May -Auguste Carayon ,Jesuit author and bibliographer (b.1813).
*30 June -Blanche d'Antigny , singer and actress (b.1840).
*4 September -Alfred de Bougy , poet and author (b.1814).
*5 December -Hippolyte François Jaubert , politician andbotanist (b.1798).
*31 December -Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin , politician (b.1807).Full date unknown
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Louis Aubert-Roche , physician (b.1810).
*Jean Cruveilhier , anatomist (b.1791).
*Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu , photographer (b.1800).
*Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant , astronomer (b.1795).
*Brutus de Villeroi ,submarine engineer (b.1794).References
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