1873 in France

See also: 1872 in France, other events of 1873, 1874 in France.

Events from the year 1873 in France.

Events

• 16 September - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.
• 21 December - Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.

Births

• 2 January - Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (d.1897).
• 28 January - Colette, writer (d.1954).
• 2 February - Maurice Tourneur, film director and screenwriter (d.1961).
• 19 February - Louis Feuillade, film director (d.1925).
• 17 May - Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist (d.1935).
• 28 June - Alexis Carrel, surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1944).
• 1 July - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer filmmaker, first female film director (d.1968).
• 4 August - Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician (d.1972).
• 8 September - Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist (d. 1907).
• 25 November - Pierre Lacau, Egyptologist and philologist (d.1963).

Full date unknown

• Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist (d.1972).

Deaths

• 9 January - Napoleon III of France, first President of the French Republic and only emperor of the Second French Empire (b.1808).
• 1 April - Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters (b.1801).
• 16 April - Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (b.1839).
• 4 May - Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral (b.1807).
• 18 July - Philarète Chasles, critic and man of letters (b.1798).
• 8 August - Antoine Chintreuil, painter (b.1814).
• 7 September - Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (b.1807).
• 23 September - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (b.1823).

Full date unknown

• Eugène Flachat, civil engineer (b.1802).
• Louis Gustave Ricard, painter (b.1823).

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