1861 in France

See also: 1860 in France, other events of 1861, 1862 in France.

Events from the year 1861 in France.

Events

• News of Henri Mouhot's discovery of Angkor Wat is published.

Births

• 15 February - Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (d.1938).
• 21 February - Pierre de Bréville, composer (d.1949).
• 30 October - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (d.1929).
• 2 November - Maurice Blondel, philosopher (d.1949.
• 8 December - Georges Méliès, filmmaker (d.1938).
• 16 December - Antonio de La Gandara, painter and draughtsman (d.1917).

Full date unknown

• Jacques Émile Blanche, painter (d.1942).

Deaths

• 5 February - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (b.1810).
• 10 April - Édouard Ménétries, entomologist (b.1802).
• 14 July - Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (b.1783).
• 24 August - Pierre Berthier, geologist and mining engineer (b.1782).
• 22 September - Rose Chéri, actress (b.1824).
• 10 November - Henri Mouhot, naturalist and explorer (b.1826).
• 10 November - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (b.1805).
• 15 November - David Carcassonne, physician (b.1789).
• 20 November - Pierre Frédéric Sarrus, mathematician (b.1798).
• 21 November - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist (b.1802).

Full date unknown

• Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer, violinist and conductor (b.1789).

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