1898 in France

See also: 1897 in France, other events of 1898, 1899 in France.

Events from the year 1898 in France.

Events

• 13 January - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 7 February - Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
• 23 February - Zola is imprisoned after writing J'accuse which was a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
• 8 May - Legislative election held.
• 22 May - Legislative election held.
• September - Fashoda Incident between Britain and France in Eastern Africa.
• 10 October - French military mission left for Chad (see: Battle of Togbao).
• November - Voulet-Chanoine Mission, military mission from Senegal to Chad.
• 10 December - The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War is signed in Paris.
• 26 December - Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium.

Arts and literature

First performance of Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

Births

January to March

• 27 January - Robert Levasseur, rugby union player (died 1974).
• 8 February - Jean Charlot, painter and illustrator (died 1979).
• 11 February - Henri de la Falaise, translator, film director and film producer (died 1972).
• 18 February - Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (died 1977).
• 4 March - Georges Dumézil, philologist (died 1986).
• 8 March - Georges Gimel, painter (died 1962).

April to June

• 6 April - Jeanne Hébuterne, artist and subject for Amedeo Modigliani (died 1920).
• 15 May - Arletty, singer and actress (died 1992).
• 16 May - Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor (died 1964).
• 4 June - Émilienne Moreau-Evrard, hero of World War I and in French resistance during World War II (died 1971).
• 15 June - André Debry, one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I (died 2005).
• 29 June - Yvonne Lefébure, pianist (died 1986).

July to September

• 5 July - André Badonnel, entomologist (died 1991).
• 5 July - André Chilo, rugby union player (died 1982).
• 5 July - Robert Lacoste, politician (died 1989).
• 10 July - Pierre Mollaret, neurologist (died 1987).
• 19 July - Étienne Decroux, actor and mime (died 1991).
• 31 July - Henri Navarre, General (died 1983).
• 13 August - Jean Borotra, tennis player (died 1994).
• 13 September - Roger Désormière, conductor (died 1963).
• 15 September - Philippe Hériat, novelist, playwright and actor (died 1971).
• 16 September - Louis Jacquinot, lawyer and politician (died 1993).
• 30 September - Renée Adorée, actress (died 1933).

October to December

• 10 October - Lilly Daché, milliner and fashion designer (died 1989).
• 10 October - Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician (died 1970).
• 14 October - Maurice Martenot, cellist and inventor (died 1980).
• 25 October - René-Yves Creston, artist, designer and ethnographer (died 1964).
• 27 October - Élisabeth d'Ayen, tennis player (died 1969).
• 31 October - Édouard Depreux, journalist, essayist and politician (died 1981).
• 11 November - René Clair, filmmaker (died 1981).
• 17 November - Maurice Journeau, composer (died 1999).
• 5 December - Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (died 1994).

Full date unknown

• Marcel Boucher, jewellery designer (died 1965).
• Lise Deharme, writer (died 1979).
• François Ducaud-Bourget, priest (died 1984).
• Édouard Joly, aircraft designer (died 1982).
• Georges Malkine, painter (died 1970).
• Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General (died 2000).
• Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (died 1990).

Deaths

• 18 April - Gustave Moreau, painter (born 1826).
• 21 April - Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer (born 1819).
• 7 July - Louis Buffet, statesman (born 1818).
• 3 August - Charles Garnier, architect (born 1825).
• 8 August - Eugène Boudin, painter (born 1824).
• 9 September - Stéphane Mallarmé, poet and critic (born 1842).
• 25 September - Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, anthropologist (born 1821).
• 16 October - Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painter (born 1819).
• 24 October - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (born 1824).
• 17 November - Auguste-François Maunoury, Hellenist and exegete (born 1811).

Full date unknown

• Jean-André Cuoq, philologist (born 1821).

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