1888 in France

See also: 1887 in France, other events of 1888, 1889 in France.

Events from the year 1888 in France.

Events

• 14 October - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Followed by his movie Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.

Births

January to March

• 8 January - Pierre Wertheimer, businessman and racehorse owner (d.1965).
• 9 January - Alfred Plé, rower and Olympic medallist (d.1980).
• 20 January - Georges Marrane, politician (d.1976).
• 4 February - Georges Girard, bacteriologist (d.1985).
• 20 February - Georges Bernanos, author (d.1948).
• 28 February - Eugène Bigot, composer and conductor (d.1965).
• 17 March - Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1983).

April to June

• 1 April - Lucien Callamand, actor (d.1968).
• 2 April - Roger Ducret, fencer and Olympic gold medallist (d.1962).
• 14 May - Lucien Berland, entomologist and arachnologist (d.1962).
• 15 May - Jean Wahl, philosopher (d.1974).
• 27 May - Louis Durey, composer (d.1979).
• 5 June - Armand Léon Annet, colonial governor (d.1973).

July to December

• 14 July - Jacques de Lacretelle, novelist (d.1985).
• 26 July - Marcel Jouhandeau, writer (d.1979).
• 31 July - Jean Moreau, politician (d.1972).
• 12 September - Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (d.1972).
• 16 September - Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister (d.1970).
• 24 September - Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, aeronautical engineer (d.1979).
• 30 September - Louis Lecoin, militant pacifist (d.1971).
• 6 October - Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (d.1918).
• 9 November - Jean Monnet, architect of European Unity (d.1979).
• 16 December - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (d.1967).

Full date unknown

• Louis Antoine, mathematician (d.1971).
• Georges Bénézé, philosopher (d.1978).
• Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (d.1967).
• Léonce Crenier, Roman Catholic monk and theologian (d.1963).
• Francois Dupre, hotelier, art collector and horse breeder (d.1966).
• Camille Le Mercier d'Erm, poet, historian and Breton nationalist (d.1978).
• René Massigli, diplomat (d.1988).
• Henri Pequet, pilot, flew first official airmail flight in 1911 (d.1974).

Deaths

• 18 January - Auguste Nicolas, Roman Catholic apologetical writer (b.1807).
• 23 January - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (b.1815).
• 13 February - Jean-Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (b.1814).
• 20 February - François Perrier, general and geodesist (b.1835).
• 22 February - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (b.1815).
• 15 March - Léonard Morel-Ladeuil, goldsmith and sculptor (b.1820).
• 16 March - Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (b.1801).
• 29 March - Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer and pianist (b.1813).
• 1 April - Jules Émile Planchon, botanist (b.1823).
• 11 April - Louis-Frédéric Brugère, professor of apologetics and church history (b.1823).
• 14 July - Antoine Étex, sculptor, painter and architect (b.1808).
• 9 August - Charles Cros, poet and inventor (b.1842).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Bossan, architect (b.1814).
• Arsène Darmesteter, philologist (b.1846).

References