See also: 1867 in France, other events of 1868, 1869 in France.

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Events from the year 1868 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and Literature 3 Births 3.1 January to June 3.2 July to December 4 Deaths 4.1 Full date unknown 5 References

[edit] Events

• 31 May - The first bicycle race is held at Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris.^{[citation needed]}
• 18 August - Helium is discovered by astronomer Pierre Janssen (and independently by Joseph Norman Lockyer on August 20).
• October - French Military Mission is ordered to leave Japan by Imperial decree.

[edit] Arts and Literature

• Establishment of the Académie Julian - a major art school in Paris, France that admitted women.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 17 January - Louis Couturat, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist (d.1914).
• 3 March - Émile Chartier, philosopher, journalist and pacifist (d.1951).
• 28 April - Émile Bernard, painter (d.1941).
• 6 May - Gaston Leroux, journalist, detective and novelist (d.1927).
• 18 June - Georges Lacombe, sculptor and painter (d.1916).

[edit] July to December

• 27 July - Eugène Apert, pediatrician (d.1940).
• 28 July - André Spire, poet, writer, and Zionist activist (d.1966).
• 6 August - Paul Claudel, poet, dramatist and diplomat (d.1955).
• 11 August - Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (d.1967).
• 19 November - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (d.1932).
• 25 December - Eugenie Besserer, actress (d.1934).

[edit] Deaths

• 13 January - Arthur-Marie Le Hir, Biblical scholar and Orientalist (b.1811).
• 8 February - Jacques Camou, general (b.1792).
• 11 February - Léon Foucault, physicist (b.1819).
• 6 May - Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin, jurist and political pamphleteer (b.1788).
• 14 June - Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet, physicist (b.1791).
• 28 August - Antoine Clot, physician (b.1793).
• 24 December - Adolphe d'Archiac, geologist and paleontologist (b.1802).
• December - Pierre Carmouche, playwright (b.1797).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Jean-François Barrière, historian (b.1786).
• Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (b.1815).
• Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Roman Catholic nun (b.1796).
• Étienne Serres, physician and embryologist (b.1786).

[edit] References