1858 in France
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Events from the year 1858 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 14 January - Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Executed on March 13 of the same year by the guillotine.
- 11 February - Lourdes apparitions: The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to St Bernadette of Lourdes.
Births
- 6 January - Sébastien Faure, anarchist, (died 1942)
- 9 January - Maurice Couette, physicist (died 1943)
- 21 January - Mélanie Bonis, composer (died 1937)
- 7 February - Amédée-François Lamy, military officer (died 1900)
- 15 April - Émile Durkheim, sociologist (died 1917)
- 19 May - Roland Bonaparte, prince, president of the Société de Géographie (died 1924)
- 28 August - Charles le Bargy, actor and film director (died 1936)
- August - Guy d'Hardelot, composer, pianist and teacher (died 1936)
Full date unknown
- André Antoine, actor-manager (died 1943)
Deaths
- 15 January - Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, statesman, minister and governor of the Bank of France (born 1782)
- 27 March - Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (born 1775)
- 9 April - Auguste François Chomel, pathologist (born 1788)
- 3 May - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux, poet (born 1803)
- 21 May - Charles-Louis Havas, writer and founder of Agence France-Presse (born 1783)
- 10 July - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (born 1786)
- 3 December - Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (born 1817)
Full date unknown
- Joseph Paul Gaimard, naturalist (born 1796)
- Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis, diplomat and statesman (born 1778)
- Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, historian (born 1776)
References
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