1875 in France

See also: 1874 in France, other events of 1875, 1876 in France.

Events from the year 1875 in France.

Events

• 20 May - Convention du Mètre signed in Paris.

Arts and literature

• 3 March - The first performance of Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris.

Births

• 21 February - Jeanne Calment, supercentenarian and the oldest living person ever documented in history (died 1997).
• 7 March - Maurice Ravel, composer and pianist (died 1937).
• 27 March - Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, neurologist (died 1962).
• 4 April - Pierre Monteux, conductor (died 1964).
• 5 April - Mistinguett, singer (born 1956).
• 27 April - Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, physicist (died 1960).
• 28 June - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (died 1941).
• 31 July - Jacques Villon, painter and printmaker (died 1963).
• 6 August - Marcel Labey, conductor and composer (died 1968).
• 27 September - Cléo de Mérode, dancer (died 1966).

Full date unknown

• Maurice Princet, mathematician and actuary (died 1973).

Deaths

January to June

• 1 January - Jacques Crétineau-Joly, journalist and historian (born 1803).
• 3 January - Pierre Larousse, grammarian and lexicographer (born 1817).
• 10 January – Anton Melbye, Danish painter (born 1818)
• 20 January - Jean-François Millet, painter (born 1814).
• 22 February - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter (born 1796).
• 1 March - Tristan Corbière, poet (born 1845).
• 5 May - Alexandre Boreau, pharmacist and botanist (born 1803).
• 10 May - Gustave Thuret, botanist (born 1817).
• 31 May - Eliphas Levi, occult author and magician (born 1810).
• 3 June - Georges Bizet, composer and pianist (born 1838).
• 24 June - Henri Labrouste, architect (born 1801).
• 25 June - Antoine-Louis Barye, sculptor (born 1796).

July to December

• 11 August - Charles Rohault de Fleury, architect (born 1801).
• 25 August - Charles Auguste Frossard, general (born 1807).
• 12 October - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor and painter (born 1827).
• 24 October - Jacques Paul Migne, priest, theologian and publisher (born 1800).
• 17 November - Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac, Bishop (born 1806).

Full date unknown

• Louis Amédée Achard, novelist (born 1814).
• Charles Auguste Désiré Filon, historian (born 1800).

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