See also: 1880 in France, other events of 1881, 1882 in France.

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Events from the year 1881 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths 3.1 Full date unknown 4 References

[edit] Events

• 13 February - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is published by Hubertine Auclert.
• 12 May - Treaty of Bardo is signed between the French Republic and Tunisian bey Muhammed as-Sadiq. Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.

[edit] Births

• 11 January - Lucien Rosengart, engineer (d.1976).
• 19 February - Paul Tournon, architect (d.1964).
• 20 February - Julien Maitron, cyclist (d.1972).
• 21 February - Marc Boegner, theologist, pastor, French Resistance member and essayist (b.1970).
• 18 March - Paul Le Flem, composer and musician (d.1984).
• 23 March - Roger Martin du Gard, author, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature (d.1958).
• 7 August - François Darlan, Admiral (d.1942).
• 10 October - Gaston Ragueneau, athlete and Olympic medallist (d.1978).
• 4 November - Gaby Deslys, dancer and actress (d.1920).
• 8 November - Robert Esnault-Pelterie, pioneering aircraft designer (d.1957).

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• Jérôme Carcopino, historian and author (d.1970).
• Paul Couturier, priest and promoter of the concept of Christian unity (d.1953).
• André Godard, archeologist and architect (d.1965).
• Élisée Maclet, painter (d.1962).

[edit] Deaths

• 19 January - Auguste Mariette, scholar and archaeologist (b.1821).
• 13 February - Alexis Paulin Paris, scholar and author (b.1800).
• 17 February - Emile-Justin Menier, pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician (b.1826).
• 1 March - Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, statesman and diplomat (b.1805).
• 24 March - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, geologist and mineralogist (b.1817).
• 2 June - Émile Littré, lexicographer and philosopher (b.1801).
• 2 June - Pierre Louis Rouillard, sculptor (b.1820).
• 28 June - Jules Armand Dufaure, statesman (b.1798).
• 9 July - Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, author (b.1827).

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• Edouard Dulaurier, Orientalist and Egyptologist (b.1807).
• Émile de Girardin, journalist, publicist and politician (b.1802).
• Jules Achille Noël, painter (b.1815).
• Napoléon Peyrat, author and historian (b.1809).

[edit] References