1861 in France
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Events from the year 1861 in France.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- News of Henri Mouhot's discovery of Angkor Wat is published.
Births[edit]
- 1 January – Jacques Émile Blanche, painter (died 1942)
- 15 February - Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (died 1938)
- 21 February - Pierre de Bréville, composer (died 1949)
- 30 October - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (died 1929)
- 2 November - Maurice Blondel, philosopher (died 1949)
- 8 December
- Aristide Maillol, sculptor (died 1944)
- Georges Méliès, filmmaker (died 1938)
- 16 December - Antonio de La Gandara, painter and draughtsman (died 1917)
Deaths[edit]
- 5 February - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (born 1810)
- 10 April - Édouard Ménétries, entomologist (born 1802)
- 14 July - Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (born 1783)
- 24 August - Pierre Berthier, geologist and mining engineer (born 1782)
- 22 September - Rose Chéri, actress (born 1824)
- 10 November - Henri Mouhot, naturalist and explorer (born 1826)
- 10 November - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (born 1805)
- 15 November - David Carcassonne, physician (born 1789)
- 20 November - Pierre Frédéric Sarrus, mathematician (born 1798)
- 21 November - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist (born 1802)
Full date unknown[edit]
- Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer, violinist and conductor (born 1789)
- Marie-Alfred de Suin, French vice-admiral and commander (born 1796)