See also: 1885 in France, other events of 1886, 1887 in France.

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Events from the year 1886 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Births 3.1 January to June 3.2 July to December 3.3 Full date unknown 4 Deaths 4.1 Full date unknown 5 References

[edit] Events

• 15 May - Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.

[edit] Arts and literature

• 30 November - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Georges Seurat begins to paint Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte sometimes this year

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 5 March - Léon Mathot, actor and film director (d.1968).
• 7 March - Jacques Majorelle, painter (d.1962).
• 7 March - René Thomas, motor racing driver (d.1975).
• 29 March - Paul Amiot, actor (d.1979).
• 15 April - Amédée Ozenfant, cubist painter (d.1966).
• 19 April - Hermine David, painter (d.1970).
• 25 April - Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (d.2001).
• 29 April - Count Renaud de la Frégeolière, author and first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (d.1981).
• 3 May - Marcel Dupré, organist, pianist and composer (d.1971).
• 24 May - Paul Paray, conductor, organist and composer (d.1979).

[edit] July to December

• 16 July - Pierre Benoit, novelist (d.1962).
• 3 August - Henri Debain, actor (d.1983).
• 15 September - Paul Pierre Lévy, mathematician (d.1971).
• 16 September - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (d.1966).
• 30 September - Gaston Ramon, veterinarian and biologist (d.1963).
• 3 October - Alain-Fournier, author and soldier (d.1914).
• 4 October - Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister (d.1970).
• 6 November - André Marty, leading figure in the French Communist Party (d.1956).
• 15 November - René Guénon, orientalist and philosopher (d.1951).

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• Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, painter and sculptor (d.1965).
• Henri Chapron, automobile coachbuilder (d.1978).
• Georges Painvin, cryptanalyst (d.1980).
• Marie-Gabriel Tissot, Abbot of Quarr (d.1983).

[edit] Deaths

• 23 January - Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (b.1815).
• 27 April - Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (b.1803).
• 17 March - Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (b.1814).
• 12 July - Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (b.1803).
• 14 August - Edmond Laguerre, mathematician (b.1834).
• 16 September - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (b.1819).
• 26 September - Hippolyte Castille, writer (b.1820).
• 14 November - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, geologist and mineralogist (b.1820).

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• Pierre Edouard Frere, painter (b.1819).
• Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (b.1822).

[edit] References