1860 in France

See also: 1859 in France, 1861 in France.

Events from the year 1860 in France.

Events

• 23 January - Cobden-Chevalier Treaty Free Trade treaty is signed between the United Kingdom and France.
• 9 April - Typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville has his daughter sing the song "Au Clair de la Lune" on his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording. However, it would not be rediscovered until 2008.
• 18 October - At the end of the Second Opium War, British and French troops enter the Forbidden City in Beijing.
• 24 October - Convention of Peking signed by Chinese with Britain and France.

Arts and literature

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Births

• 11 February - Rachilde, author (died 1953).
• 25 June - Gustave Charpentier, composer (died 1956).
• 16 August - Jules Laforgue, poet (died 1887).
• 20 August - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France (died 1934).

Deaths

• 29 January - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1789).
• 14 March - Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor (born 1812).
• 24 June - Jérôme Bonaparte, youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia (born 1784).
• 22 August - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803).
• 17 December - Désirée Clary, wife of King Charles XIV of Sweden and a one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1777).

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• Carron du Villards, ophthalmologist (born 1801).

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