See also: 1894 in France, other events of 1895, 1896 in France.

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Events from the year 1895 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 January to June 2.2 July to December 2.3 July to September 2.4 October to December 2.5 Full date unknown 3 Deaths 3.1 January to June 3.2 July to December 3.3 Full date unknown 4 References

[edit] Events

• 5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris.
• 17 January - Dreyfus is moved into a military reformatory on the island of Ré.
• 21 February - Dreyfus is put on board ship to be exiled.
• 15 March - Dreyfus is landed on Devil's Island.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 29 January - Pierre Gaxotte, historian (d.1982).
• 11 February - Maurice Cottenet, soccer player (d.1972).
• 28 February - Marcel Pagnol, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker (d.1974).
• 2 March - Marcel Carpentier, military officer (d.1977).
• 20 March - Robert Benoist, motor racing driver and war hero (executed) (d.1944).
• 30 March - Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (d.1990).
• 30 March - Jean Giono, author (d.1970).
• 5 April - Fernand Mourlot, printer and publisher (d.1988).
• 3 May - Gabriel Chevallier, novelist (d.1969).
• 4 May - René Mayer, politician and Prime Minister of France (d.1972).
• 11 May - Jacques Brugnon, tennis player (d.1978).
• 9 June - Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter, film director and producer (d.1972).

[edit] July to December

[edit] July to September

• 2 July - Gen Paul, painter and engraver (d.1975).
• 7 August - Alain Saint-Ogan, comics author and artist (d.1974).
• 18 September - Jean Batmale, soccer player (d.1973).
• 24 September - André Frédéric Cournand, physician and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (d.1988).

[edit] October to December

• 9 October - René Lasserre, rugby union player (d.1965).
• 3 November - Pierre Richard-Willm, actor (d.1983).
• 5 November - Walter Gieseking, pianist and composer (d.1956).
• 20 November - Pierre Cot, politician (d.1977).
• 20 November - Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (d.1988).
• 27 November - Pierre-Paul Grassé, zoologist (d.1985).
• 29 November - Edgard de Larminat, General (d.1962).
• 14 December - Paul Éluard, poet (d.1952).

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• Roger Blaizot, General (d.1981).
• Albert Gilles, copper craftsman (d.1979).
• Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (d.1967).
• Ernest Labrousse, historian (d.1988).
• Marcel LaFosse, musician and trumpeter (d.1969).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 10 January - Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (b.1849).
• 29 January - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (b.1822).
• 16 February - André Garin, missionary and parish priest (b.1822).
• 19 February - Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (b.1819).
• 22 April - Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist, introduced the Gypsy Moth into North America (b.1827).
• 11 May - Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, professor of apologetics (b.1834).
• 22 May - Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (b.1817).
• 28 May - Albert L'Ouvrier, socialist statesman (b.1815).

[edit] July to December

• 19 July - Henri Ernest Baillon, botanist and physician (b.1827).
• 28 September - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (b.1822).
• 24 November - Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, philosopher, journalist and statesman (b.1805).
• 27 November - Alexandre Dumas, fils, writer, author and playwright (b.1824).
• 11 December - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic (b.1825).

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• Louis-Florentin Calmeil, psychiatrist and medical historian (b.1798).
• Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, missionary, explorer and botanist (b.1834).
• Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, historian (b.1820).

[edit] References