1894 in France

Events from the year 1894 in France

Incumbents

President: Marie François Sadi Carnot (until 26 June), Jean Casimir-Perier (starting 26 June)

President of the Council of Ministers: Jean Casimir-Perier (until 30 May), Charles Dupuy (starting 30 May)

Events

• 4 January –

  Franco-Russian Alliance: A military alliance is established between France and the Russian Empire, pledged to remain so as long as the Triple Alliance (1882) exists.

• 15 February (04:51 GMT) –

  French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Observatory, London, England with a bomb.

• 22 June –

  Dahomey becomes a French colony.

• 23 June –

  International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

• 24 June –

  Assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France.

• 15 August –

  Sante Geronimo Caserio is executed for the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot.

• 15 October –

  Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying: Dreyfus affair begins.

• 5 November –

  Crédit Agricole established.

• 7 November –

  The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France.

• 19 December –

  Trial and conviction of Alfred Dreyfus begins at the Cherche-Midi prison and lasts four days.

• 22 December –

  Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason.

• 31 December –

  Dreyfus’ appeal to the military court of revision — a formality — is rejected.

• Venus of Brassempouy is discovered.

• Émile Delahaye produces the first Delahaye automobile in Tours.

Arts and Literature

• Paul Cézanne paints Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier.

• Claude Debussy composes premieres Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune in December 1894, a symphonic poem based on Stéphane Mallarmé.

Births

• 12 January –

  Georges Carpentier, boxer (died 1975)

• 18 January –

  Romain Bellenger, cyclist (died 1981)

• 6 February –

  André Marchal, organist and organ teacher (died 1980)

• 14 March –

  Marie-Simone Capony, teacher, fifth-oldest person in the world (died 2007)

• 26 March –

  Albert Achard, World War I flying ace (died 1972)

• 9 April –

  Jean Gounot, gymnast and Olympic medallist (died 1978)

• 23 April –

  Georges Renavent, actor (died 1969)

• 10 May –

  Paul Dujardin, water polo player and Olympic medallist (died 1959)

• 27 May –

  Louis-Ferdinand Céline, writer (died 1961)

• 2 June –

  Jean Gachet, boxer and Olympic medallist (died 1968)

• 13 June –

  Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer and painter (died 1986)

• 25 July –

  Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died 1977)

• 19 August –

  André Lefèbvre, automobile engineer (died 1963)

• 27 August –

  André Lurçat, architect (died 1970)

• 3 September –

  Marie Dubas, music-hall singer and comedian (died 1972)

• 3 September –

  André Hébuterne, painter (died 1992)

• 8 September –

  Andrée Vaurabourg, pianist and teacher (died 1980)

• 14 September –

  Pierre-Marie Théas, Bishop (died 1977)

• 15 September –

  Jean Renoir, film director (died 1979)

• 17 October –

  Félix Amiot, aircraft constructor (died 1974)

• 25 October –

  Claude Cahun, photographer and writer (died 1954)

• 30 October –

  Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (died 1977)

• 4 November –

  Gabriel Auphan, Admiral (died 1982)

• 5 November –

  René Laforgue, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died 1962)

• 7 December –

  Louis Béguet, rugby union player (died 1983)

• 19 December –

  Paul Baudouin, banker, politician and Minister (died 1964)

• 25 December –

  Maurice Floquet, France’s oldest man on record (died 2006)

• Full date unknown –

  Marcel LaFosse, classical trumpeter (died 1969)

• Full date unknown –

  Georges Miquelle, cellist (died 1977)

Deaths

• 29 January –

  Armand Gautier, painter and lithographer (born 1825)

• 3 February –

  Edmond Frémy, chemist (born 1814)

• 6 February –

  Maria Deraismes, author and pioneer for women’s rights (born 1828)

• 9 February –

  Maxime Du Camp, writer and photographer (born 1822)

• 14 February –

  Jacques-Léonard Maillet, sculptor (born 1823)

• 20 May –

  Philippe Édouard Foucaux, Tibetologist (born 1811)

• 25 June –

  Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France (assassinated) (born 1837)

• 1 July –

  Jean-Joseph Carriès, sculptor, ceramist, and miniaturist (born 1855)

• 2 September –

  Pauline Duvernay, dancer (born 1813)

• 8 November –

  Louis Figuier, scientist and writer (born 1819)

• 7 December –

  Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of the Suez Canal (born 1805)

• Full date unknown –

  Jacques Claude Demogeot, man of letters (born 1808)

References