No; in practical terms, the pronunciation is more or less identical.
French Congo was created in 1880.
Ezra B. French died in 1880.
yes
French ironclad Triomphante was created on 1880-10-17.
mille huit cent quatre vingt.
6.9 mexican pesos
Stephen French Whitman was born on January 10, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Panama Canal
Les Trois Frères, Deuxième Partie is a French equivalent of the English phrase "The Three Brothers, Part Two." The image of three brothers most famously recalls Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevski's The Brothers Karamazov, whose impact upon French literature continues strong 137 years after its first publication from January 1879 to November 1880. The pronunciation will be "ley twa frer du-zyem par-tee" in French.
French writer Gustave Flaubert who is the frontier of realism in literature died.
Speak proper French, i.e. the literary/formal language approved by the French Academy. They spoke different forms of dialects ("le patois") or old languages.
Based upon the French gold standard (1873, I think) of one franc equaling 0.290322581g gold, one 1880 franc works out to $3.95 today's dollars.