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2007 Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential election
2005 French reject a referendum on the E.U. constitution 2005 Paul Ricoeur, French Philosopher 2005 Eddie Barclay, French Musician 2004 Julia Child, French Chef, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, dies at 91 2003 Marie Trintignant, French Actress 1999 Robert Bresson, French Director 1998 68th French Womens Tennis: 1998 Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies 1997 Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist, dies at 89 1997 Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies 1997 Andre Boucourechliev, French Composer 1997 French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages 1997 Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer 1997 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62) 1997 67th French Womens Tennis: Iva Majoli beats Martina Hingis (64 62) 1996 Alain Poher, French President of European Parliament (1966-69), dies 1996 Marcel Carne, French Director 1996 Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69 1996 Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81 1996 66th French Mens Tennis: Yevgeny Kafelnikov beats M Stich (76, 75, 76) 1996 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108) 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual 1995 Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/U.S. conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83 1995 John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70 1995 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64) 1995 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60) 1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election 1995 Christian Pineau, French politician, dies 1995 Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82 1995 Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87 1995 Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84 1995 Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Conde, French prince/Russian, dies at 47 1995 Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80 1995 Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30 1995 Francis Lopez, French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78 1994 Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79 1994 French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille 1994 Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87 1994 Didier Rocher, son of French cosmetic maker Yves Rocher, dies at 41 1994 Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 1994 Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58 1994 Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99 1994 Sviatoslav S Stravinsky, French/U.S. composer/son of Igor Stravinsky, dies at 84 1994 Benoat Regent, French actor (Du Bottom du Coeur), dies at 41 1994 Jean Daste, French actor (Zero de Conduite, L'Atalante), dies at 90 1994 Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94 1994 Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71 1994 Helena Manson, Venezuela/French actress (Nude in a White Car), dies at 94 1994 Last U.S., British and French troops leave West-Berlin 1994 Henri Calef, Bulgarian/French director (Jericho), dies 1994 Christian-Jaque, Christian Maudet, French director (Nana), dies 1994 French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche 1994 Jean Borotra, Flying Basque, French tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95 1994 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights 1994 Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies 1994 Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies 1994 1st French "all news" TV, LCI, begins broadcasting 1994 Marcel Mouloudji, French actor/chansonnier (Le Deserteur), dies at 71 1994 Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78 1994 64th French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61) 1994 64th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (64 64) 1994 Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79 1994 Alain Cuny, Rene X. Marie, French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85 1994 Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72 1994 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87 1994 Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67 1994 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81 1994 Michel R Vassallucci, French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32 1994 Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69 1994 Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76 1994 Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44 1994 Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71 1994 Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81 1994 Suzanne M Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95 1994 Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor (La Ronde), dies at 83 1994 Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72 1994 Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81 1994 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29) 1993 Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian/French actress (Le roi), dies at 99 1993 Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93 1993 Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (Harem), dies at 87 1993 Herve Bromberger, French director/screenwriter, dies at 75 1993 Christopher Frank, French writer, dies at 51 1993 Maurice Bessy, French film historian (Cinemonde), dies at 82 1993 Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46 1993 Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75 1993 Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96 1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78 1993 Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81 1993 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70 1993 Leo Ferre, French singer/composer (Mon General), dies at 76 1993 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88 1993 Rene Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84 1993 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63) 1993 63rd French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (46 62 64) 1993 French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 86 1993 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria 1993 Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83 1993 French government of Balladur forms 1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election 1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35 1993 Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35 1993 Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72 1993 Francois Reichenbach, French director (L'Amerique Insolite), dies at 70 1993 Michel Renault, French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies 1992 Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies 1992 Maurice le Roux, French conductor and composer (Contes immoraux), dies 1992 Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies 1992 Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44 1992 Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94 1992 Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies 1992 Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cinema, Traffic), dies 1992 62nd French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats Petr Korda (75 62 61) 1992 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8) 1992 Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64 1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89 1992 Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St. Francois d'Assise), dies at 83 1992 Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83 1992 Noemie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies 1992 Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67 1992 Jean Poiret, French actor and writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65 1992 Maria Dea, French actress (Pieges), dies at 73 1992 Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies 1991 Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Cesar), dies at 87 1991 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82 1991 Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Philadelphia 1991 Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies 1991 Vercors, Jean Bruller, French writer (Silence of Mer), dies 1991 61st French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64) 1991 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64) 1991 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies 1991 Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92 1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) 1990 Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari) 1990 Valerie French, actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia 1990 William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer 1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages 1990 Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies 1990 Michel Levis, French cultural anthropologist/writer, dies 1990 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait 1990 Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 1990 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78 1990 Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71 1990 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64) 1990 60th French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (76 64) 1990 Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf for French Open title 1990 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph 1990 Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies 1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 1989 Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies 1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die 1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), dies at 86 1989 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87 1989 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies 1989 Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54 1989 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62) 1989 59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title 1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals 1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice 1989 Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83 1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test 1988 Francis Ponge, French Poet 1988 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61) 1988 58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60) 1988 Jordy, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, French singer, guitarist, achieved Guinness Book of World Records as youngest singer with number one chart-topping hit, 'Dur dur d'etre bebe!', or, 'It's Tough to be a Baby', founded, tours, records with Jordy and the Dixies 1987 Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53 1987 Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68 1987 Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77 1987 57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76) 1987 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86) 1987 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94 1987 Yves Allegret, French director (Such a lovely tiny beach), dies at 79 1987 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum 1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released 1986 Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22 1986 Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered 1986 Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67 1986 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92 1986 Coluche, Michel Colucci, French comic, dies at 41 1986 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64) 1986 56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63) 1986 Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75 1986 Marcel Dassault, Bloch, French airplane builder, dies at 94 1986 Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75 1986 Jean Genat, French, playwright (Lesson Negres), dies at 75 1986 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (Deuxieme Sexe), dies at 86 1986 Jacques Chirac forms French government 1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in Beirut Lebanon 1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad 1986 Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumiere du Soir), dies at 86 1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski 1985 Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83 1985 Fernand Braudel, French Historian 1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature 1985 Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64 1985 U.S. - French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland 1985 French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior 1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near New Zealand 1985 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62) 1985 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75) 1985 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies 1985 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist 1985 French government adopts equal electoral system 1985 Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97 1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) 1985 Jetta Goudal, French actress (White Gold), dies at 86 1984 French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia 1984 French airship capsizes 1984 Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85 1984 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75) 1984 Ivan Lendl wins French Open, his 1st grand slam title 1984 54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61) 1983 Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at 79 1983 Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91 1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78 1983 Tino Rossi, French singer, dies 1983 Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies 1983 Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84 1983 53rd French Mens Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76) 1983 53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) 1983 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58 1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 1982 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71 1982 Jacques Tatischeff, French actor and director (Parade), dies at 74 1982 Savitri Devi, French Writer 1982 U.S., Italian and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon 1982 Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68 1982 Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58 1982 Jean Wiener, French composer (Olive chez les negres), dies at 86 1982 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64) 1982 52nd French Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger, 76 61 1982 Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies 1982 Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 1982 Georges Perec, French writer, dies at 45 1982 Felix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76 1982 Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69 1982 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83 1981 Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92 1981 Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies 1981 Jacques Lacan, French Psychologist 1981 French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists 1981 Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election 1981 51st French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61) 1981 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64) 1981 French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67 1981 Rene Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82? 1981 French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run 1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq 1980 Eva Green, French Actress 1980 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63) 1980 50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62) 1980 Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies 1980 Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75 1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) 1979 Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death 1979 Nadia Boulanger, French composer (Lasirene), dies at 92 1979 Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93 1979 James T Farrell, U.S. writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies 1979 49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64) 1979 49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60) 1979 Jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90 1979 Jean Renoir, French writer and director 'Human Beast', 'Rules of the Game', dies at 84 1978 Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado), dies at 75 1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) 1978 Audrey Tautou, French Actress 1978 Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title 1978 Laetitia Casta, French Model 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1977 Rene Goscinny, French writer (Asterix), dies at 51 1977 Thierry Henry, French Athlete 1977 Jacques Prevert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77 1977 Communists/socialists win French municipal elections 1977 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92 1976 Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 72 1976 Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French writer (Last Days), dies at 73 1976 Paul Morand, French Diplomat 1976 Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda 1976 Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies 1976 Jacques Lucien Monod, French Scientist 1976 Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 1976 Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66 1976 Lily Pons, French/U.S. soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71 1976 Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84 1975 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94 1975 Guy Mollet, French premier (1956-57), dies at 69 1975 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78 1975 Pierre Blaise, French actor (Lacombe Lucien), dies at 24 1975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway 1975 45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64) 1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) 1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia 1975 Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68 1975 Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent), dies at 77 1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French 1974 Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69 1974 Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at 62 1974 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague 1974 Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75 1974 Andrei Medvedev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, tennis star, 1991 French Open junior 1974 Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77 1974 Darius Milhaud, French composer (Le boeuf sur le toat), dies at 81 1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election 1974 Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79 1974 Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76 1974 Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62 1973 Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at 69 1973 French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed 1973 Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer, dies at 77 1973 Marc Allegret, French director (Lady Chatterley), dies at 72 1973 Jean Barraque, French composer, dies at 45 1973 Andrea Gaudenzi, born in Faenza, Italy, tennis star, 1990 French Open junior 1973 43rd French Mens Tennis: Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60) 1973 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) 1973 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. art critic sculptor, dies at 81 1973 Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91 1973 Estefania Knuth, born in Barcelona, Spain, LPGA golfer, 1992 French International 1972 Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76 1972 Robert M Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Diemer), dies at 73 1972 Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86 1972 Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 66 1972 Pierre Messmer appointed French premier 1972 Zinedine Zidane, French Athlete 1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win 1972 Michael Chang, born in Hoboken, New Jersey, tennis star, 1989 French Open 1972 Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83 1972 Maurice Chevalier, French Actor 1971 Sandra Kim, Caldarone, French singer, J'aime la Vie 1971 Marcel Dupre, French composer, dies at 85 1971 Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83 1971 Fernandel, Contandin, French actor (Death of Champion), dies at 67 1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies 1971 Henri Tomasi, French composer (Don Juan de Manara), dies at 69 1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 1970 French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia 1970 Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 1970 Marc Rosset, born in Geneva, Switzerland, tennis star, 1992 French Doubles 1970 Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 1970 Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies 1970 Jim Courier, born in Sanford, Florida, tennis champ, 1990, 91 French 1970 Lucien H d'Azambuja, French astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86 1970 Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87 1970 Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61 1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes 1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France) 1969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 1969 Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter, dies 1969 French government of Couve de Murville resigns 1969 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73 1968 Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53 1968 Charles Munch, French/U.S. conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra, dies at 77 1968 Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies 1968 Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies 1968 French government-Couve de Murville forms 1968 Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs 1968 38th French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62) 1968 38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61) 1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament 1968 Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91 1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle and Pompidou 1968 Marie-Jose Perec, Guadeloupe, French 200m/400m runner, 2 Gold Medals 1996 Olympics 1968 Michael Vartan, French Actor 1968 Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81 1968 Louis-Franeois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90 1968 Louis-Franeois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera), dies at 90 1967 French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia 1967 Marcel Ayme, French writer (Lesson contes du chat perche), dies at 65 1967 Andre Maurois, Emile Herzog, French writer (Balzac), dies 1967 Thomas Muster, born in Leibnitz, Austria, tennis star, 1995 French Open 1967 French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1967 Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63 1967 Albertine Sarrazin, French author (La Traversiere), dies at 29 1967 Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 1967 French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia 1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government 1967 Max Ophuls, Oppenheimer, German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies 1967 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France 1967 Martine Carol, French actress (Nana), dies of heart attack at 46 1967 Alphonse Juin, French marshal, dies at 78 1966 Patricia Kaas, French pop singer, Mademoiselle Chant 1966 Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies 1966 Andre Breton, French Surrealist poet (Manifest of Surrealism), dies at 70 1966 Luke Jensen, born in Grayling, Michigan, tennis star, 1993 French Open doubles 1966 French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry 1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain 1966 Eric Cantona, French Athlete 1966 Georges Duhamel, French Novelist 1966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit 1966 Olivier Martinez, French Actor 1966 Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French premier 1965 French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) 1965 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space 1965 French Luitjes, Dutch athlete, dies at 21 1965 Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency 1965 Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90 1965 Le Corbusier, Charles Jeanneret, Swiss/French architect, dies at 77 1965 Kathleen Horvath, born in Chicago, Illinois, tennis player, French Open, Jr. 1980 1965 Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66 1965 Pierre Cardevielle, French composer and conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59 1965 Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner, world record 200 m indoor 1965 Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57 1965 Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 1965 Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, French composer and conductor, dies at 84 1964 Roger Bissiere, French painter, dies at 76 1964 Ronald Agenor, Rabat Morocco, tennis player, 1989 French quarters 1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize 1964 Mats Wilander, born in Vaxjo, Sweden, tennis star, 1988-US, Australia, French 1964 Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General French Communist Party, dies at 64 1964 Pierre Monteux, French/U.S. conductor, Concert Building Orchestra, dies at 89 1964 Last French troops leave Algeria 1964 Jean Alesi, French Celebrity 1964 Linda French, born in Oak Park, Illinois, badminton player 1996 Olympics 1964 French Stewart, New Mexico, actor, Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 1963 Edmond Flegenheimer, Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies 1963 Edith Piaf, French singer (No, I don't regret anything), dies at 47 1963 Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73 1963 French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons 1963 Bonnie Gadusek, Pittsburgh, tennis player, French Juniors 1981 1963 Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77 1963 Henri Leconte, born in France, tennis player, French finalist 1988 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike 1963 Francois Poulenc, French composer (Litanies Vierge noire), dies at 74 1962 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water and Dreams), dies at 78 1962 French president De Gaulle visits West Germany 1962 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel 1962 Georges Bataille, French Writer 1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule 1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5) 1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria 1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed 1962 Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84 1962 Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34 1962 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) 1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria 1962 Alain Robert, French Athlete 1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested 1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1962 Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71 1962 Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, dies at 76 1962 Marie Trintignant, French Actress 1961 Annie Pujol, Perpignan, French TV hostess, Roue de la Fortune 1961 Michel R Vassallucci, French/Netherlands publisher, Arena 1961 Bernard Werber, French Writer 1961 Mylene Farmer, born in Montreal, Canada, french singer, Cendres de Lune 1961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory 1961 French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81 1961 Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53 1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria 1961 Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria 1961 French army revolts in Algeria 1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tue), dies at 73 1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons 1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons 1960 Mali, formerly French Sudan, declares independence from France 1960 Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet (North-South), dies at 70 1960 Yannick Noah, France, tennis player, French 1983 1960 French liner "France" launched 1960 Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French Admiral 1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 1960 Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle 1960 French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu 1960 Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46 1960 French Cameroon gains independence from France 1959 Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40 1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus 1959 Gerard Philipe, French actor (El Cid, Don Carlos), dies at 36 1959 Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60 1959 Bruce French, cricketer, England wicketkeeper in 16 Tests 1986-88 1959 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies 1959 Boris Vian, French Writer 1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French government 1959 Patrick Bruel, Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist, Coup of Sirocco 1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria 1959 Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan, dissolved 1960 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary 1959 Luc Besson, French Director 1959 Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community 1958 French franc devalued 1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) 1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community 1958 Central African Republic made autonomous member of French Community (National Day) 1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community 1958 Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community 1958 Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community 1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community 1958 Alain Chabat, actor, French Twist, Six Days Six Night 1958 Andre Bazin, French Critic 1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community 1958 5th French republic forms 1958 Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) 1958 French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea 1958 Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87 1958 Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies 1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open 1958 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84 1958 Pierre-etienne Flandin, French Prime Minister 1934 - 1935, dies at 69 1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French 1958 French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1958 French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle 1958 Francis Carco(pino), French author/critic (L'homme traque), dies at 71 1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria 1958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French government 1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85 1958 French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis 1958 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86 1958 Georges Rouault, French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86 1958 Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die 1958 Kelly Leadbetter, born in Phoenix, Arizona, LPGA golfer, 1986 Hennessy French Open 1957 Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 in Italy 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26 1957 French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria 1957 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78 1957 French offensive in Algeria 1957 French government of Mollet resigns 1957 Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies 1957 Mark Aldanov, Mark A Landau, Russian/French chemist, dies at 70 1957 Valery Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75 1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt 1956 Blanche Baker, born in New York City, actress/Carroll Baker's Daughter, French Postcard 1956 Vincent (Moro-)Giafferi, French criminal (Caillaux/Landru), dies 1956 Sue Barker, tennis pro, French Open 1976 1956 Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78 1956 French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis 1956 [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (Fouche), dies at 85 1956 Dominic Erban, French rugby international player 1956 Mima Jausovec, born in Yugoslavia, tennis player, French Open-1977 1956 Marie Laurencin, French Artist 1956 Julien Benda, French philosopher and writer (La trahison des clercs), dies 1956 French raid in Algiers 1956 French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria 1956 Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88 1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam 1956 French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria 1956 French commandos land in Algeria 1956 Paul Leautaud, Maurice Boissard, French writer (Petit ami), dies at 84 1956 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95 1956 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers 1956 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74 1956 French government of Mollet forms 1956 Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84 1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections 1955 Maurice Utrillo, French painter (Cathedrale St-Denis), dies at 71 1955 Fernand Leger, French painter (Grand Parade), dies 1955 David Marshall Grant, born in Westport CT, actor, Legs, French Postcards 1955 Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered 1955 Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73 1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75 1955 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher 1955 Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher 1955 Edgar Faure forms French government 1955 Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86 1955 Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies 1954 Miles Chapin, New York City, actor, French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse 1954 F Henri Berr, French occurence philosopher (L'hymne la vie), dies 1954 Bernard Hinault, French bicylist, Tour de France 1954 Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84 1954 Henri Matisse, French Artist 1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule 1954 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements 1954 Algerian Revolution against French begins 1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out 1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal 1954 Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist 1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh 1954 Jay Jay French, born in New York City, guitarist, Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It 1954 Francis L Casadesus, French violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 83 1954 Pierre Mendes-France forms French government 1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union 1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu 1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam 1954 Auguste Lumiere, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81 1953 Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75 1953 French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu 1953 Francis Picabia, French Artist 1953 Dominique de Villepin, French Diplomat 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union 1953 French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy 1953 Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies 1953 French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy 1953 Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66 1953 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations 1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier 1953 23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62) 1953 23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64) 1953 French government of Mayer resigns 1953 Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62 1953 Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, dies at 93 1953 Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56 1953 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74 1953 Rene Mayer forms French government 1952 Hans Abrahamsen, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, composer, musician, played French horn, studied at Royal Danish Academy of Music, compositions employ New Simplicity style 1952 French government of Pinay, resigns 1952 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die 1952 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56 1952 French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam 1952 Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55 1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government 1952 French offensive at Hanoi 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia 1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base 1952 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52 1952 French Plevin government falls 1951 De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered 1951 John French Sloan, American Artist 1951 Henri Philippe Petain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies 1951 De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election 1951 Alain, Emile-Auguste Chartier, French philosopher, dies at 83 1951 French government of Pleven dissolves 1951 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 100 performances 1950 Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83 1950 French women and children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta 1950 "Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 100 performances 1950 French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam 1950 Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam 1950 Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star, French 1976, Italian 1976 1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh 1950 Rene Pleven forms French government 1950 French government-Bidault resigns 1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal 1950 Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 70 1950 Christian Lacroix, French couturier, Chic Frills 1950 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS 1950 Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77 1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 1950 Georges Bidault forms French government 1950 Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China 1949 Arsene Wenger, French Coach 1949 Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L'ete), dies at 75 1949 Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union 1949 Meryl Streep, born in New Jersey, actress, French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice 1949 Henri-Honore Giraud, French genl/MP, dies at 70 1949 Bernard Arnault, French Businessman 1948 Jeremy Irons, England, actor, French Lieutenant's Woman 1948 Andre Serot, colonel/commandant of French air force (WW II), dies 1948 Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French Politician 1948 French government of Schuman, resigns 1948 Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51 1948 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38 1947 St-Georges de Bouchelier, French author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71 1947 French government of Schumann, forms 1947 De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections 1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies 1947 Catherine Collard, French pianist, Schumann/Brahms 1947 David French, British director, Deep Sleep, Bingo 1947 Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66 1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522 1947 Explosions and fire on French ship Grandcamp 1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized 1947 Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79 1946 French troops leave Lebanon 1946 4th French republic established 1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi 1946 Leon Blum elected French premier 1946 French government of Bidault, resigns 1946 French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000 1946 Amanda Lear, French singer 1946 Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election 1946 Claude Vorilhon, French Celebrity 1946 French W. Weisglas, Dutch MP, VVD 1946 Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 1946 Mireille Mathieu, French Musician 1946 Syria declares independence from French administration 1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Reunion become overseas depts 1946 F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government 1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union 1945 Roger Bambuck, Guadeloupe, French 4X100 runner 1968 Olympics bronze 1945 Jean Nouvel, French Architect 1945 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52 1945 Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71 1944 Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78 1944 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies 1944 Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies 1944 Aristide Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82 1944 French troops liberate Lyon 1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris 1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux 1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast 1944 Francois Ambrosiny, French dancer and choreographer (Fates d'Hebe), dies at 66 1944 French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees 1944 U.S./French offensive at Aleneon 1944 Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), dies at 44 1944 Pierre Vienot, French ambassador to London/writer, dies 1944 Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign Minister, dies 1944 French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C. 1944 French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands 1944 French troops free Elba 1944 French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba 1944 Marc Bloch, French Historian 1944 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed 1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day 1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day 1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London 1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65 1944 Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55 1944 ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed 1944 Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 1944 Jean Giraudoux, French Dramatist 1943 Walter Spanghero, French rugby player 1943 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1943 Lebanon declares independence from French administration 1943 Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85 1943 Camille Claudel, French Artist 1943 Corsica freed by Free French 1943 Free French lands on Corsica 1943 U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) 1943 Jean-Claude Killy, born in Saint-Cloud, France, French alpine skiier, 3 Gold Medals 1968 Olympics 1943 Simone Weil, French philosopher (Le pesanteur et la grace), dies at 34 1943 Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany 1943 Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed 1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris 1943 French, British and U.S. victory parade in Tunis Tunisia 1943 Frederic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker, dies at 74 1943 Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer, 'Le Petit Roi', dies at 72 1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor 1943 Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz 1943 Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia 1942 Bosinier de la Chapelle, French murderer of Admiral Darlan, executed at 24 1942 Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists 1942 French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them 1942 French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx" 1942 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz 1942 Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr 1942 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French 1942 U.S. General Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria 1942 Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris 1942 Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Netherlands/French/Belgian painter's model, dies 1942 Louis FMF Franchet d'Esperey, French marshal (WW I), dies at 90 1942 French government of Reynaud resigns 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim 1942 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81 1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire 1942 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany 1942 Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered 1941 Robert Delaunay, French painter, dies at 56 1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40 1941 Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter, executed at 35 1941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany 1941 Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria 1941 Guy de Pourtales, Swiss/French writer (Pache miraculous), dies 1941 English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria 1941 Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88 1941 Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82 1941 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81 1940 French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs" 1940 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48 1940 Japanese troops attack French Indo-China 1940 French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees 1940 French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle 1940 Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies 1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die 1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa 1940 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies 1940 Jean-Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies at 71 1940 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29 1940 Aurelien FM Lugne-Poe, French actor (Pirouette), dies at 70 1940 General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers 1940 French government moves to Bordeaux 1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik 1940 Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk 1940 Alfred Loisy, French Clergyman 1940 British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 1940 Paul Nizan, French journalist and writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 1940 Reynaud forms French government 1940 French counter attack at Peronne under General De Gaulle 1940 French mariners occupy St. Maarten 1940 French marines stationed on Aruba 1940 French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands 1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier 1940 French government of Daladier, falls 1939 Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer, Lettres Clandestines 1939 William Friedkin, Chicago, dir, Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection 1939 French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor, dies at 73 1939 Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-nazi pact 1938 Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76 1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) 1938 Marie-Clementine "Suzanne" Valadon, French acrobat/model, dies at 72 1938 Cesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at 46 1937 Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 1937 Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, dies at 72 1937 Albertine Sarrazin, French author, L'astragale, La Cavale 1937 Lionel Jospin, French Statesman 1937 French People's front government-Blum falls 1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93 1937 Alain Badiou, born in Rabat, Morocco, influential French philosopher, chair, subscribes to an anti-postmodern form of continental philosophy 1936 Terence Rattigans "French Without Tears," premieres in London 1936 French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime 1936 French franc devalued 1936 Gilbert Amy, French composer, Coeur de Fumee 1936 Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99 1936 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery and Foules), dies at 36 1936 Yves Saint Laurent, born in Algeria, greatest French fashion designer of the 20th century 1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government 1936 Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies 1936 French People's Front wins elections 1936 Georges Perec, French writer, Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee 1936 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57 1936 French Laval government falls 1935 Omar Bongo, born in Lewai, French Equatorial Africa, now Bongoville, Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, Albert-Bernard Bongo, statesman, Gabonese Democratic Party, President of Gabon at age 31 1935 Jules M Cambron, French Governor-General to Algeria/ambassador, dies 1935 Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies at 62 1935 Paul Signac, French Artist 1935 Alfred Dreyfus, French officier (Dreyfus Affair), dies 1935 Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies 1935 French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours 1935 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, French composer, dies at 74 1935 Paul A Dukas, French composer/tutor of Messiaen (Velleda), dies at 69 1935 Bernard Pivot, French Journalist 1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage 1934 Victor French, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Highway to Heaven 1934 J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered 1934 Jean Vigo, French filmer, dies 1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms 1934 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 1934 "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies 1934 Marie Curie, French Scientist 1934 French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit 1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government 1934 French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) 1934 Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies 1933 Camille Chautemps becomes French premier 1933 Paul, Prudent, Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies 1933 French government of Serraut forms 1933 Dawn French, actress/comedienne, Supergrass 1933 Just Fontaine, French Athlete 1933 Christian Ferras, French violinist and conductor 1933 Costantinos Gavras, born in Greece, known as Costa-Gavras, French filmmaker, created political-themed films, known for fast-paced thriller titled Z, first film titled Missing, 1982 1933 Henri Duparc, French composer, dies at 85 1933 French government of Daladier takes power 1933 French government of Paul Boncour falls 1932 French government of Herriot falls 1932 Jacques Chirac, French Statesman 1932 Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies 1932 French liner Normandie is launched 1932 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies 1932 Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded 1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death 1932 Wojciech Kilar, born in Lwow, Poland, composer of film, classical, symphonic music, won French Lili Boulanger Prize for composition 1960 1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 1932 Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies 1932 Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56 1932 Valerie French, born in London, England, actress, Jubal 1932 Sacha Distel, French singer 1931 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80 1931 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies 1931 French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450 1931 Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer, French Cancan, Jacko and Lise 1931 French government of Steeg falls 1931 Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies 1931 Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78 1930 Theodore Steeg forms French government 1930 French government of Tardieu falls 1930 Jean-Luc Godard, French director, Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless 1930 Pierre Bourdieu, French Sociologist 1930 Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher 1930 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61) 1930 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61) 1930 Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1930 French government of Tardieu falls 1930 C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66 1929 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 1929 Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88 1929 Marilyn French, U.S. author, The Women's Room 1929 French government of Briand falls 1929 Antoine Bourdelle, French Sculptor 1929 Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China), dies 1929 French premier A Briand requests a U.S. of Europe 1929 Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies 1928 F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies 1928 French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 1928 Agnes Varda, French photograph/director, Cleo de 5 7, Le bonheur 1928 Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter 1928 Serge Gainsbourg, Ginsburg, Russian/French singer, Ford Mustang 1928 Jean Barraque, French composer 1928 Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter, French Connection 1927 Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies 1927 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9) 1927 Francois Nourissier, French writer, Un petit bourgeois 1926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index 1926 Jean Richepin, French poet and writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77 1926 Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86 1926 Claude Monet, French Artist 1926 Michel Foucault, French philosopher, History of Sexuality 1926 Paul-Michel Foucault, French philosopher, Les Mots et les Choses 1926 German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes 1926 Jean Poiret, French actor and writer, Le Dernier Metro 1926 Rene Goscinny, French song/cartoon text writer, Asterix 1926 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer 1926 French and German trade agreement signed 1926 Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus 1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms 1926 Emile Coue, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), dies 1926 7th French government of Briand falls 1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60) 1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate 1926 French air force bombs Damascus, Syria 1926 Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies 1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at 63 1926 John Fowles, born in England, novelist, Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman 1926 Regine Crespin, French vocalist, Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete 1925 Pierre Beregovoy, French premier, 1992-93 1925 7th French government of Briand sworn-in 1925 Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies 1925 Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41 1925 French General Sarrail bombs Damascus 1925 Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) 1925 French General of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed 1925 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74 1925 Rene [Raphael] Viviani, French premier (1914-15), dies 1925 Andre Boucourechliev, French Composer 1925 Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee, 1985-95 1925 French occupation force begins evacuating country 1925 Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59 1925 Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer, Thunder and Lightning 1925 Pierre Louys, PF Louis, French writer (Aphrodite), dies 1925 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'odeon), dies at 64 1925 John [Denton Pinkstone] French, British field marshall (WWI), dies at 72 1925 D. French Slaughter, Jr., born in Culpeper, Virginia, Representative-R-Virginia, 1985 - 1991 1925 D. French Slaughter, Jr., Representative-R-Virginia, 1985 - 1991, died from a series of strokes 1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco 1925 Clement Ader, French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84 1925 Andre Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jesus), dies at 45 1925 Paul Painleve follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier 1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco 1925 Louison Bobet, French cyclist, Tour de France 1953-55 1925 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings 1925 French psychologist Emil Coue brings his self-esteem therapy to U.S. "Every day in every way I am getting better and better" 1924 Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied 1924 Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79 1924 Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer, Death of Narcissus 1924 Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer, Sins of Rome 1924 French government names General Serrail Governor-General of Syria 1924 Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer 1924 John Cruickshank, French scholar 1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier 1924 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies 1924 Charles Aznavour, Armenia, French singer, Monsieur Carnavel, Tin Drum 1924 Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71 1924 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind 1924 Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election 1924 Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter, l'Amour 1924 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65 1924 New French government of Poincare begins 1924 R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67 1924 Edmond Picard, French writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87 1924 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician 1924 Maurice du Plessys, French poet (Le Feu Sacre), dies at 59 1924 Jean Francois Revel, French journalist/author, Ni Marx ni Jesus 1923 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 1923 Jorge Semprun, French writer, 2nd mort de R Mercader, Z 1923 Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88 1923 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61 1923 Maurice Barres, French Politician 1923 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60 1923 French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59 1923 Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet 1923 Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor, Great spiral 1923 Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, French sea officer/writer, dies 1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die 1923 Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71 1923 Marc Saporta, French writer/essayist, Le Grand Defi 1923 Janine Dacosta, French pianist 1923 French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations 1922 Maria Casares, La Coruna Spain, French actress, Orpheus, Lectrice 1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent 1922 Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51 1922 Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74 1922 Francois Reichenbach, French director, La douceur du Village 1922 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86 1922 Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52 1922 Alfred Espinas, French sociologist (Societes Animales), dies at 77 1921 Charles Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, dies at 86 1921 Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist, Chopin/Liszt 1921 Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer 1921 Chris Marker, French Director 1921 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75 1921 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58 1921 Nina Vyroubova, Russian/French ballerina, Pavlova-prize 1957 1921 Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist 1921 Eddie Barclay, French Musician 1921 Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Algerian/French cross country, Gold Medal 1956 Olympics 1920 Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party 1920 French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau 1920 Boris Vian, French Writer 1920 Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77 1920 Alexandre Millerand forms French government 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die 1920 Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 1919 Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78 1919 Auguste Renoir, French Artist 1919 Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, dies 1919 Victor A D Segalen, Max Anely, French ship's doctor/writer, dies 1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day 1919 Maurice Girodias, French publisher 1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt 1918 French troops occupies Mainz 1918 Edmond Rostand, French Poet 1918 Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg 1918 Janine Andrade, French violinist 1918 Guillaume Apollinaire, Kostrowitsky, French poet 'Alcools', dies at 38 1918 Rene de Obaldia, French writer/screenwriter, Fugue Waterloo 1918 Louis Althusser, French philosopher, For Marx, Strangled His Wife 1918 Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34 1918 Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies 1918 Robert Baldwin Ross, French Celebrity 1918 Joost van Vollenhoven, Netherlands, Governor-General (French West-Africa), dies 1918 U.S. and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I 1918 Josephin Peladan, French writer/CEO (French Red Cross), dies 1918 Maurice Druon, Kessel, French writer/journalist, Prix Goncourt 1918 Andre Bazin, French Critic 1918 Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents 1918 Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73 1918 Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55 1917 Louise J Gautier, French poet/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71 1917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 1917 F-Auguste-R Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77 1917 Auguste Rodin, French Sculptor 1917 Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies 1917 Eddie Constantine, US/French actor, Lucky Jo, It Lives Again 1917 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies 1917 Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22 1917 Paul Meyer, French Writer 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft 1917 William French Smith, Attorney General, 1981-85 1917 P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer, Singular Love 1917 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies 1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer, Just Causes 1917 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72 1916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun 1916 French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle 1916 P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73 1916 Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58 1916 Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland 1916 Odilon Redon, French painter/author (A soi-mame), dies at 76 1916 French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured 1916 French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun 1916 Pierre Emmanuel, French poet, Sodome 1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette 1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3 1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun 1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu 1915 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75 1915 Aristide Briand forms French war government 1915 Roland Barthes, French literary critic, L'Empire des Signer 1915 Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar 1915 Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed 1915 Remy de Gourmont, French critic/writer (Physique L'Amour), dies at 57 1915 British and French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon 1915 German and French fight Battle of Artois 1915 French begin Woevre-offensive 1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed 1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician 1915 Emil Waldteufel, Charles Levy, French composer (Estudiantina), dies 1914 French offensive in Artois (Petain) 1914 French government returns to Paris 1914 Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts 1914 Jean Bouin, French marathoner, Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies in battle 1914 Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27 1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I 1914 French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine 1914 Charles Peguy, French writer/publisher (Clio), dies in battle at 41 1914 British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany 1914 Charles Peguy, French Philosopher 1914 French troops vacate Reims 1914 Alberic Magnard, French composer, killed in action at 49 1914 Eugene Odene, French mayor of Senlis, executed 1914 Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac 1914 John French evacuate Amiens 1914 German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan 1914 Battle at Charleroi: General von Bulows troops beat French 1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre 1914 Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s 1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg 1914 French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins 1914 British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France 1914 French troops under General Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas 1914 French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross 1914 French troops under General Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas 1914 French cavalry enter Belgium 1914 French fleet sails to North-Africa 1914 German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg 1914 A J Jean Jaures, French socialist (L'Humanite/Les Preuves), murdered= 1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border 1914 John French appointed British supreme commander 1914 Philippe Aries, French historian 1914 Maurice Ohana, British?/French? pianist/composer, La Celestine 1914 Albert Soboult, French historian 1914 Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies 1914 French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer 1914 Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne 1913 Adhemar Esmein, French Reichts leader, dies at 65 1913 Lucien Goldmann, Romania/French sociologist/philosopher, Le dieu cache 1913 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher 1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands 1913 Jean Fournet, French conductor 1913 Roger Caillois, French writer, Les Jeux et les Hommes 1913 Paul Ricoeur, French Philosopher 1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in New York City 1913 Aristide Briand forms French government 1913 Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere), dies at 57 1912 French/British troops lands on Samoa 1912 Julia Child, born in Pasadena, California, chef, French Chef 1912 Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70 1912 Jules Massenet, French Composer 1912 Louis J N Gerardin, Toto, French bicyclist/trainer, champ 1930 1912 Abbe Pierre, born in Lyon, France, French Catholic priest, founded Emmaus movement aiding poor, homeless, refugees 1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies 1912 J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58 1912 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies 1912 Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74 1912 French protectorate in Morocco established 1912 Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, Hot Club of France 1912 French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor 1912 Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information 1911 Alfred Manessier, French painter, leaded windows 1911 Georges Dargaud, French publisher, Asterix/Kuifje 1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies 1911 Luc Estang, Lucien Bastard, French writer, Stigmates 1911 Alfred Binet, French Psychologist 1911 Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister, 1976-78 1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode 1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed 1911 Leo Ferre, French singer/composer, Silly-aime, Ni Dieu ni maatre 1911 Albert Alberts, writer/journalist, French battle 1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War 1911 French troops occupy Fes El Bali Morocco 1911 Georges Dargaud, French publisher, Asterix, Tintin 1911 Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer, La Voix du couvre-feu 1911 Jehan Ariste Alain, French organist/composer 1911 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer 1911 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly 1911 Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar 1910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir 1910 Gaston Deferre, French politician 1910 Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies 1910 Henri Rousseau, French Artist 1910 Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57 1910 Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer 1910 Julien Gracq, Louis Poirier, French writer, Andre Breton 1910 Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies 1910 Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer 1910 Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46 1910 Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53 1910 Jean Moreas, Y Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet, dies at 53 1910 Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist and conductor, dies 1910 Felix Tournachon, Nadar, French writer/photographer, dies at 89 1910 Jacques Monod, French biochemist 1910 Jacques Lucien Monod, French Scientist 1910 Henri Queffelec, French writer, Au bout du monde 1910 Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52 1910 Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75 1910 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies 1909 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60 1909 Monique Hare, French pianist 1909 Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, French Minister of War (1899-1900), dies at 79 1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens 1909 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist 1909 Guy de Rothschild, French banker 1909 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator 1909 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer, Margin 1909 Caran d'Ache, Emmanuel Poire, French illustrator, dies 1909 Rene Etiemble, French literature historian, Parlez-vous Franglais 1908 Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77 1908 Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author, Bestiari 1908 Francois Coppee, French poet, dies 1908 Ludovic Halevy, French Author 1908 Jean Reville, French vicar (Le Prophetisme Hebreu), dies at 53 1908 Jacques Massu, French general, Algeria 1908 Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter and author, Op Art 1908 Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, born in Essen, Germany, tennis star, French 1935 1908 Maurice, Jean Jacques, Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher 1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip 1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor) 1907 Roger Vailland, French author, La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir 1907 Yves Allegret, French director, Dedee d'Anvers, Lesson Orgueilleux 1907 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies 1907 Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77 1907 French troops occupy Casablanca 1907 Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, La civilisation du phoque 1907 Rene Char, French poet/painter 1907 Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies at 59 1906 French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia 1906 Elisabeth Saint Drieeenheid, French mystic (Souvenirs), dies at 26 1906 Albert Reville, French theologist (Jesus of Nazareth), dies at 79 1906 Paul Cezanne, French painter, dies at 67 1906 Paul Cezanne, French painter/water colors painter, dies at 67 1906 Marcel Carne, French Director 1906 Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer, Hotel du Nord 1906 Andre Weil, Bourbaki, French/U.S. mathematician 1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies 1906 Samuel Beckett, French playwright, Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969 1906 Pierre Cardevielle, French composer and conductor, Amants Captifs 1906 Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist 1905 Guy Mollet, French socialist premier, 1956-57 1905 Pierre Brasseur, Espinasse, French actor, Enfants du Paradis 1905 French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state 1905 British, Italian, Russisan, French and Austria-Hungary fleet attack Lesbos 1905 Alphonse Allais, French humorist and writer (Le chat noir), dies 1905 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62 1905 Savitri Devi, French Writer 1905 Galli-Marie, French mezzo-soprano, dies at 64 1905 Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo Governor (1890-98), die 1905 Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter 1905 Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies 1905 Jacques Goddot, French publisher, Tour de France 1905 French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request 1905 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies 1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work 1905 French Dufaux brothers test helicopter 1905 Raymond Aron, French sociologist and political scientist 1905 Felix L V L J Labisse, French painter, libidoscaphes 1905 Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85 1905 Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies 1905 Paul Nizan, French journalist and writer, L'Humanite, La Conspiration 1905 French government of Combes falls 1905 Pierre Mendes-France, French Premier, 1954-55 1904 Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer, Guerra del Tiempo 1904 Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie 1904 Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor, French Line 1904 Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies 1904 Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist dies at 56 1904 Hans Hartung, German/French painter 1904 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies 1904 Jean Gabin, Alexis Moncorge, actor, Stormy Waters, French Can Can 1904 Leslie French, actor/singer, More than a Miracle 1904 Antonin Magne, French bicyclist, Tour de France 1931, 34 1904 Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor, Grand Nude 1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari 1903 Camille Pissarro, French Artist 1903 Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies 1903 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer, Le diable ouch corps 1903 Paul Gauguin, French Artist 1903 Fernandel, Fernand JD Contandin, French actor, Paris Holiday 1903 Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies 1903 Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French author, Un Enfant a Dit 1902 Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic, Temps Humain 1902 Fernand Braudel, French historian 1902 Emile Zola, French writer (Nana/Germinal/J'accuse), dies at 62 1902 F R Boschvogel, French LJ Ramon, Flemish writer, War of Worlds 1902 Fernand Braudel, French historian, Civililization and Capitalism 1902 Christian Castries, French general, Dien Bien Phu 1902 Jean Y. Y. Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies 1902 Nathalie Sarraute, Cherniak, Russian/French playwright 1902 Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58 1902 U.S. buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million 1902 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet and author, Lutin Sauvage 1902 Marcel Ayme, French writer, Jument Verte 1902 Vercors, Jean Bruller, French writer, Le Silence de la Mer 1902 Maurice Durufle, French organist/composer 1902 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper publisher, Le Monde, The Voice, 1901 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor 1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36 1901 Jacques Perret, French journalist and writer, La caporal epingle 1901 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, Landscape with 2 Personages 1901 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist 1901 Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist 1901 Rene-Jean Pleven, French premier, 1950-52 1901 Jacques Lacan, French Psychologist 1901 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter and graphic artist 1901 Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 1901 Andre Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist, Assur 1901 Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78 1901 Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer, L'amour responsable 1901 H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter 1900 Marc Allegret, French director, Voyage ouch Congo 1900 Julien Green, US/French writer, Frere Francois 1900 Rene Crevel, French author, Mon corps et moi, Detours 1900 Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General, French Communist Party 1900 Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle 1900 [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935 1900 Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director, Plaisir 1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes 1900 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer, Sarabande, Jeunesse 1900 Yves Tanguy, French/U.S. sailor/surrealistic painter 1899 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist, Coup of Trafalgar 1899 Georges Bidault, French Politician 1899 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds 1899 Armand Salacrou, French playwright 1899 Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright, Jean de la Lune 1899 Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet, La revolution surrealiste 1899 Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist 1899 Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance, WW II 1899 Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44 1899 Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French painter, dies at 68 1899 Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70 1899 Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/comedian, dies at 64 1899 Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist and composer, Prix Diemer 1899 Francis Ponge, French Poet 1899 Jacques Audiberti, French poet, Race of Men 1899 British and French accord about West-Africa 1899 Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76 1899 Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies 1898 Eugene Dabit, French writer/painter, Hotel du Nord 1898 French government-Dupuy forms 1898 Alfred Sauvy, French statistician, Affluence and Population 1898 Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Pantheon), dies at 73 1898 Renee Adoree, French/U.S. singer and actress, Tfolies-Bergere, Mr. Wu 1898 French troops reach Guinea and Sudan, Samori caught 1898 Stephane Mallarme, French publisher (L'apres-midi d'un faune), dies 1898 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor, Bathing Woman, Orleans 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan 1898 Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies 1898 Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies 1898 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies 1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die 1898 Geo[rges M] Norge, French/Belgian writer, Les oignons 1898 Roger Bastide, French sociologist 1898 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and writer, Army of the Shadows 1897 Leon Boelmann, French organist/composer (Suite Gothique), dies at 35 1897 Louis Aragon, French poet and writer, Feu de joie, Lesson poetes 1897 Georges Bataille, French Writer 1897 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, neutron, Nobel 1935 1897 Harold French, director, Encore, actor 1897 Jean Epstein, French director, Sa tate/Eau vive 1897 Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87 1897 Bernard F. Lyot, French astronomer, Lyot filter 1896 Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist 1896 Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer 1896 Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister 1896 Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 1896 Henry M de Montherlant, French stage author, La Reine Morte 1896 Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenfeld, French poet, Approximate Man 1896 Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist 1896 Charles A. L. Panzera, French baritone, L'horizon Chimerique 1896 Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84 1896 Orville Caldwell, California, actor, Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning 1896 Paul M Verlaine, French poet (Elegies, Bonne Chanson), dies at 51 1896 Paul Verlaine, French Poet 1896 Andre Aime Rene Masson, French Surrealist artist, Labyrinth 1895 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix 1895 Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi, 1955-81 1895 Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72 1895 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms 1895 Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67 1895 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general 1895 Jean Giono, French writer, World Chant 1895 Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54 1895 Berthe Morisot, French Artist 1895 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director, Marchands de Gloire 1895 Francois Certain de Canrobert, French marshal, dies at 85 1895 French president Casimir-Perier resigns 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar 1895 Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist 1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1894 Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot 1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) 1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89 1894 French Captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa 1894 Jean Renoir, French director, Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion 1894 Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (Espana, L'etoile), dies at 53 1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 1894 Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45 1893 French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu 1893 Antoine T d'abbadie, French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78 1893 Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75 1893 Charles Gounod, French Composer 1893 Edouard Manet, French painter (Olympia), dies at 61 1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony 1893 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64 1893 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, Gilles 1892 Alexander A Aljechin, Russian/French chess champ, 1927-35, 37-46 1892 Ernest Renan, French Philosopher 1892 Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance 1892 Jean Lurcat, French painter/carpet designer 1892 Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet, Los Heraldos Negros 1892 Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries 1892 Marcel Dassault, French airplane builder 1891 Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, minister of Foreign affairs 1891 Jean Galtier-Boissiere, French writer/cartoonist/journalist 1891 Arthur Rimbaud, French Poet 1891 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator, dies at 78 1891 Charles Munch, Strasbourg Alsatian conductor, French Legion D'Honeur 1891 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. painter/cubist sculptor 1891 Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73 1891 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian painter, dies at 77 1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31 1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention, dies at 68 1891 Georges E Migot, French composer 1891 French troops under captain Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan 1891 Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71 1891 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75 1891 Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor 1891 Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter, La Souris Boiteuse 1891 Leo Delibes, French ballet composer (Lakme), dies at 54 1891 Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81 1891 French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed 1890 Alphonse Karr, French Critic 1890 Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63 1890 Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist 1890 British and French accord to divide African colonization 1890 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76 1890 Ossip Zadkine, Russian/French sculptor, Destroyed City 1890 Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter 1890 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan 1890 Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter, El Dorado 1890 French troops under captain Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan 1890 Andre L. Danjon, French astronomer 1890 Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen, Indo-China 1889 Honore-Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher/playwright 1889 Abel Gance, French film pioneer/actor, Napoleon, J'accuse 1889 Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet, Coeur de Chevre 1889 Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60 1889 Pierre-etienne Flandin, French premier, 1934-35, and minister of Foreign affairs 1889 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution 1888 Alphonse Juin, French marshal 1888 French Panama Canal company fails 1888 Benjamin Cremieux, French author, Le premier the la Classe 1888 Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol 1888 Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman, EGKS 1888 Roger Bissiere, French painter 1888 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 1888 Jean-Jacques Bernard, French writer, Mon pere Tristan Bernard 1888 Jacques Feyder, Frederix, Belg/French actor and director, Anna Christie 1888 Jean Wahl, French philosopher 1888 Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor 1888 Paul Morand, French Diplomat 1887 French president Grevy (80) resigns 1887 Marcel Duchamp, French painter, Nude Descending a Staircase 1887 Henri Pourrat, French writer, Gaspard of the Montagnes 1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die 1887 Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1886 Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japans/French painter 1886 Paul Bert, French Scientist 1886 Mark Aldanov, Landau, Russian/French chemist/writer 1886 Mark Aldanov, Landau, Russian/French chemist, Myslitel, 1886 Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist, Great Adventure 1886 Marc Bloch, French Historian 1886 Francis Carcopino, French author/critic, L'Homme Traque 1886 Robert Schuman, French premier 1886 Marcel Dupre, French organist/composer 1886 Antoine Pevsner, French sculptor 1886 Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77 1885 Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41 1885 Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter 1885 Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, Traite du paysage 1885 Andre Maurois, French writer, Balzac 1885 Georges Mandel, Louis Rothschild, French Foreign minister, -1940 1885 Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83 1885 Victor Hugo, French Author 1885 Robert Delaunay, French painter 1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns 1885 Edmond About, French Novelist 1884 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright, Cafe Tabac 1884 Paul Abadie, French master builder (Sacre-Coeur, Paris), dies at 71 1884 Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist 1884 Georges Duhamel, French Novelist 1884 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher, La psychanalyse du feu 1884 Jacques Chardonne, Boutelleau, French writer, l'Epithalame 1883 Marie Laurencin, French Artist 1883 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, Chanel 1883 Coco Chanel, French Designer 1883 Olivier Gloux, Gustave Aimard, French world explorer, dies at 64 1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar 1883 French troops under Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal 1883 Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack 1883 Louis Veuillot, French Journalist 1883 2nd French government of Ferry begins 1883 Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter 1883 French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger 1883 Gustave Dore, French illustrator, dies at 51 1882 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at 44 1882 Louis Blanc, French Politician 1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies 1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die 1882 Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition 1882 Georges F Broque, French cubist painter, Bike 1882 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35 1882 Georges Braque, French Artist 1882 Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist (Melanges), dies at 66 1881 Leon Gambetta forms French government 1881 French government-Ferry resigns 1881 Guy de Pourtales, Swiss/French writer, Nietzsche in Italy 1881 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax 1881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate 1881 Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 1881 Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher 1881 French troops occupy Algeria and Tunisia 1881 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 1880 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made U.S. debut at New York's Booth Theater 1880 Jacques Offenbach, German/French composer (La belle Helene), dies at 61 1880 Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer, Viola d'amour 1880 Jules Ferry forms French government 1880 Desire-emile Inghelbrecht, French composer and conductor, Naval 1880 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer, French governess 1880 Elisabeth of Saint Drieeenheid, Catez, French mystic, Souvenirs 1880 Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammbo), dies 1880 Isaac M "Isaac A" Cremieux, French minister of Justice, dies at 83 1880 French van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp 1880 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer 1879 Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion, 1925 1879 Andre Caplet, French composer and conductor, Conte Fantastic 1879 Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company 1879 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers 1879 Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63 1879 Honore V Daumier, French painter/lithographer, dies at 70 1879 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist 1879 French President MacMahon resigns 1879 Henri-Honore Giraud, French general/member of parliament 1878 Felix M Abel, French bible scholar, Jerusalem Nouvelle 1878 French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed 1878 Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist 1878 Paul Hazard, French literature historian 1878 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm 1878 Lucien Febvre, French historian, Un destin: Martin Luther 1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 1878 Vincent [de Moro-]Giafferi, French prosecutor, Dieudonne, Landru 1878 Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61 1878 Claude Bernard, French Psychologist 1878 Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator 1878 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1878 Victor A. D. Segalen, French writer 1878 Francois Ambrosiny, French dancer/choreograph, L'oiseau enchante 1877 JD Gustave Courbet, French painter (Baigneuses), dies at 58 1877 Gustave Courbet, French Artist 1877 Alfred Cortot, French pianist 1877 Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80 1877 Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman 1877 Jean Schlumberger, French writer, La Mort de Sparte 1877 Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75 1877 Alphonse de Chateaubriant, French writer, Instantanes aux Pays-Bas 1877 Louis Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer, Habanera 1877 Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter 1876 Felicien C David, French composer (Lalla-Roukh), dies at 66 1876 Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem 1876 George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71 1876 Saint-Georges de Bouchelier, French author, Le Rois Sans Couronne 1876 Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63 1876 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, dies at 70 1876 Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor, Princesse X 1875 Edouard Corbiere, French captain/writer (Le Negrier), dies at 82 1875 Georges [Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold] Bizet, French composer, dies at 36 1875 Georges Bizet, French Composer 1875 Eliphas Levi, French Author 1875 Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author, Un homme si simple 1875 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasverus), dies at 72 1875 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76 1875 Annette Kolb, German/French author, Small Fanfare 1875 Charles Rist, French economist 1874 Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician and revolutionary, dies 1874 Edmond Flegenheimer, Swiss/French author, Ecoute Israel 1874 Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist 1874 JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75 1874 Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist, Actinium 1874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer, double decker 1874 Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75 1873 Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52 1873 Alfred Jarry, French Writer 1873 French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol 1873 Ernest B Allo, French theologist 1873 Charles Peguy, French Philosopher 1872 Robert marquess of Flers, French author, Habit Vert 1872 Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61 1872 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 1872 Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo 1872 Albert P Sarraut, French Governor-General of Indo-China, 1911..19, PM, 1933/36 1872 Leon Blum, French premier, People's front government 1872 Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose 1871 John French Sloan, American Artist 1871 Georges-Henri Rouault, French expressionist painter, Miserere et Guerre 1871 Daniel-Franeois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89 1871 [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian, French revolutionary 1871 Jeanne Bougeois, La Mistinguette, artist, French revue 1871 Theodore Caruelle d'Aligny, French painter/etcher, dies at 73 1871 Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 1870 Alexander Dumas, French Novelist 1870 Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist, composer and conductor 1870 Andre Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer, Le petit roi 1870 Prosper Merimee, French playwright (Carmen), dies at 66 1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French 1870 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king 1869 Aurelien FM Lugne-Poe, French actor/stage manager, La Parade 1869 Andre Gide, French Novelist 1869 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French writer (Tableau Historique), dies 1869 Marcel Cachin, co-founder, French Communistic Party 1869 Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy 1869 Robert Baldwin Ross, French Celebrity 1869 Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65 1869 Hector Berlioz, French Composer 1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, French poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78 1869 Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet 1868 Francis Jammes, French poet and writer, Jammisme 1868 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist 1868 Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies 1868 Frederic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker 1868 Claude Anet, Jean Schopfer, French writer, Fille Perdue 1868 Charles R. Gallas, Dutch lexicographer, French dictionary 1868 Alain, Emile-Auguste Chartier, French philosopher and writer 1867 Julien Benda, French philosopher and writer, Dialogues Byzance 1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 1867 Marie Curie, French Scientist, discovered radium, Nobel 1903, 1911 1867 Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi 1867 Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator 1867 [Pierre-]Charles Baudelaire, French poet (Journaux Intimes), dies at 46 1867 Charles Baudelaire, French Poet 1867 Last French troops leave Mexico 1867 French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50 1867 Maxime Weygard, French general/Governor-General, Algeria 1867 Victor Cousin, French Philosopher 1867 Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74 1866 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French abstract painter, Dreamy Inspiration 1866 Tristan Bernard, French Playwright 1866 French Government of De Putte resigns 1865 Felix E. Vallotton, Swiss/French painter/writer, Chaste Suzanna 1865 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, Taylor series 1865 Marie-Clementine"Suzanne" Valadon, French acrobat/model 1865 Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, Loi Falcidie 1865 Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat, China 1864 Camille Claudel, French Artist 1864 Otto French Strahl, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1864 Maurice de Plessys, French poet, Palace Occidental 1864 British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits 1864 U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki 1864 Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician (ADA), dies at 39 1864 Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64 1863 French Ferdinand, archduke of Austria, Sarajevo/WW I 1863 Paul [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier 1863 Paul P Painleve, French PM, 1917, 1925, mathematician 1863 Paul Signac, French Artist 1863 Rene [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier, 1914-15 1863 C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer, Rateau steam turbine 1863 Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist, bacteria plague 1863 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet 1863 Cambodia becomes French protectorate 1863 Mexico City captured by French troops 1863 F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher, Revue the Synthesis 1863 E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73 1862 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer 1862 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer 1862 Daniel Halevy, French historian and writer, La fin des notables 1862 Georges Feydeau, French playwright, La Dame de Chez Maxim's 1862 Paul Adam, French writer, La Bataille d'Uhde 1862 Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer, Variations Symphoniques 1862 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/member of parliament 1862 Maurice Barres, French Politician 1862 Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to throne 1862 Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days 1862 French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo 1862 Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist, Salamine 1862 Marcel Prevost, French publisher/writer, Les demis-vierges 1862 Fromental Halevy, Elie Levy, French opera composer, dies at 62 1862 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 1861 French Gailliard, Belgian painter, Zeustempel in Athens 1861 Antoine Bourdelle, French Sculptor 1861 Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian 1860 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theatre director, l'Odeon 1860 Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80 1860 British and French troops capture Beijing 1860 Lucien Laberthonniere, French philosopher 1860 Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet, Les Complaintas 1860 Alfred Coville, French historian, Lesson etats de Normandie 1860 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer, Colombia-Panama 1860 Gustave Charpentier, French composer, opera Louise 1860 Rene Lalique, French jewel designer 1860 Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, Monsieur Venus 1860 Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author, Journal 1859 Maurice Donnay, French playwright, Lovers 1859 Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 1859 Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer, Dreyfus Affair 1859 AAJ Jean Jaures, French socialist, L'Humanite, Les Preuves 1859 Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist 1859 Josephin Peladan, French writer/founder, French Rosicrucians 1858 Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit 1858 Georges Courteline, Moineaux, French playwright 1858 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller, Surinam 1858 Emile Durkheim, French sociologist, Division du travail social 1858 Remy de Gourmont, French critic and writer, Physique de L'amour 1858 Maximilien Luce, French painter 1858 Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer 1858 Eugene Brieux, French playwright, Blanchette, Lesson Avaries 1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1858 Rachel, Elisabeth Rachel-Felix, French singer and actress (Muse), dies at 36 1857 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist, Babinski reflex 1857 Eugene Sue, French Novelist 1857 Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54 1857 French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary, Pursue Years 1857 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist 1857 E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 1857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies 1857 Alfred de Musset, French Writer 1857 Alfred Loisy, French Clergyman 1857 Emile Coue, French pharmacist, recovery by auto suggestion 1857 Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 1856 R G Nivelle, French military man 1856 Henri E Cross, Delacroix, French painter 1856 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52 1856 Henri POBJ Petain, French marshal, Verdun/Vichy regime 1856 Jean Moreas, Yannis Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet 1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince 1856 Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor, dies at 67 1855 Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist, stratosphere 1855 Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed 1855 Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, dies at 46 1854 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense, 1916-17 1854 Jean Reville, French vicar/theologist, Liberal Protestantism 1854 Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000 1854 Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist, Pass the Bile 1854 British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea 1854 English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka 1854 Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71 1853 D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies 1853 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar 1853 Albert Vandal, French earl/historian, Le Pacha Bonneval 1852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor 1852 Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist 1852 Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer 1852 John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall 1852 Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight 1852 Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83 1852 Louis FMF Franchet d'Esperey, Desperate Frankey, French marshal, WW I 1852 Theophile Delcasse, French statesman 1852 Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49 1852 Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator, French Africa 1852 Joseph J C Joffre, French Field Marshal, Indo China, Marne 1851 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, French painter (daguerreotypie), dies 1851 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1851 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier, 1895-96, Nobel 1920 1850 Charles Richet, French physiologist, anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913 1850 Honore de Balzac, French Novelist 1850 Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor, Minute Man 1850 Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, French sea officer/writer, Pacheur 1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 1849 F. A. Alphonse Aulard, French historian 1849 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist, La femme 1849 Jean Richepin, French poet and writer, Les Chansons de Gueux 1848 Slavery abolished in all French territories 1848 Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter, Rue de Paris 1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies 1848 Paul Gauguin, French post-impressionist painter 1848 Free last slaves in French colonies 1848 2nd French Republic proclaimed 1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared 1848 [Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, French playwright and poet, Jeune Croyances 1848 Adhemar Esmein, French lawyer 1848 Henri Duparc, French composer 1847 Marie Louise, French Royalty 1847 George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author, violent revolutions 1847 Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, tectonic geology 1847 Paul Alexis, French writer, Soirees de Medan 1847 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphee), dies 1847 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, South America 1846 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier 1846 Louise J Gautier, French poet 1846 Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty 1846 Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67 1846 Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist, Galle Glaze 1846 Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75 1845 Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French Vice-Admiral, dies at 81 1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82 1845 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist 1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies 1845 Jules M Cambon, French Governor-General of Algeria/ambassador 1844 Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies 1844 Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies 1844 Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63 1844 Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulame, dies 1844 Henri Rousseau, French Artist 1844 Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, Dream 1844 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist 1844 Paul Verlaine, French Poet 1843 P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist, Economiste Francais 1843 A G Henri Regnault, French water colors painter 1843 Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, Peter the Great 1843 Louis Renault, French lawyer 1843 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat, Madrid, Constantinople, London 1842 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet 1842 MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82 1842 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur 1842 Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist and composer, dies at 70 1842 Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76 1842 Jules Massenet, French Composer 1842 Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle], French writer (The Love), buried at 59 1842 Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle, French author (Lamiel), dies at 59 1842 Francois Coppee, French poet 1842 Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71 1842 Amy G. C. A. Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist 1841 Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies 1841 Clement Ader, French engineer 1841 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49 1841 Auguste Renoir, French Artist 1841 Clement Ader, French inventor, 1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft 1841 Berthe M P Morisot, French painter/aquarellist 1841 Berthe Morisot, French Artist 1840 L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer, Tartarin of Tarascon 1840 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies 1840 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician 1840 Odilon Redon, French painter/author, La nuit, Raves 1840 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard 1840 Paul Meyer, French Writer 1839 Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter 1839 French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68 1839 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science 1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1838 Georges Bizet, French Composer 1838 Laure S-MP duchess d'abrantes, French marshal Junot, dies 1838 Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-Perigord, French bishop, dies at 84 1838 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat 1838 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier, 1881 - 1882 1838 Leon Dierx, French poet 1837 Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69 1837 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies 1837 Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 54 1837 Henri Klimrath, French lawyer (Etude sur lesson costumes), dies at 30 1837 Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated 1837 Ernest Daudet, French writer, White Terror 1837 Francois Gerard, French baron/painter, dies at 66 1836 Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer, La forge Roussel 1836 Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer, dies 1836 Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author, Salon/Nouvelle Revue 1836 Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies 1835 Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist 1835 Emile Gaboriau, author, father of French detective novels 1835 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian 1834 Leon Walras, French economist, border use theory 1834 Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer 1834 Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies 1834 Edgar Degas, French painter, ballerina 1834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies 1834 Ludovic Halevy, French Author 1833 Paul Bert, French Scientist 1833 Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74 1833 Louis-J-Ferdinand Herold, French composer (Pre aux clercs), dies at 41 1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, Eiffel tower 1832 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp 1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium 1832 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63 1832 Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies 1832 Jules Valles, French journalist/communard/author, L'insurge 1832 Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20 1832 Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La Regne Animal), dies at 62 1832 Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman 1831 Victorien Sardou, French stage writer, Madame Sans-Gane 1831 Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64 1830 H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63 1830 Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74 1830 Camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter, impressionism 1830 Camille Pissarro, French Artist 1830 Hector H. Malot, French writer, Without Family 1830 Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist, law of Raoult 1830 Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian and sociologist 1830 Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/Minister of War, 1899-1900 1829 Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85 1829 French government of De Polignac forms 1829 Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist 1829 Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer 1829 Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian/French composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95 1828 Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry, French painter 1828 Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic 1828 Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67 1828 Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70 1828 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, Voyage in Italy 1828 Edmond About, French Novelist 1827 Ernest H Baillon, French botanist, History of Plants 1827 Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russian/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet 1827 French C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect, St. Amanduskerk, Antwerp 1827 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician 1827 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker 1826 Charles-A Chatrian, Erckmann-C, French writer, L'ami Fritz 1826 Albert Reville, French theologist, Jesus of Nazareth 1826 Gustave Moreau, French painter 1825 Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77 1825 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris 1825 Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon 1825 Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder, Allgemeiner 1825 Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53 1825 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer, Le Bon Samaritain 1824 Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter, Pantheon 1824 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62 1824 Joseph Joubert, French Writer 1824 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger 1824 Theodore Gericault, French painter (Grand Derby d'epsom), dies 1823 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76 1823 Joseph E Labbe, French lawyer 1823 Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, dies at 53 1823 Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion 1822 Charles Hermite, French mathematician, E is Transcendent 1822 Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention 1822 Edmond de Goncourt, French Writer 1822 Emile Erckmann, E-Chatrian, French writer, Waterloo 1822 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist, Nobel 1901 1822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter, Buffalo Bill 1821 Charles Meryon, British/French etcher 1821 Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer, Grains de Mil 1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII 1821 Ernest Feydeau, French author, Georges Feydeau 1821 Joseph de Maistre, French Diplomat 1821 Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies 1821 Auguste Edouard Mariette, French egyptologist, dug out Sphinx 12/16/42 1820 Nadar, Felix Tournachon, French painter, cartoonist, author and ballonist 1819 Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, Crises Commercial 1819 Jacques Offenbach, born in Cologne, French composer, Tales of Hoffmann 1819 J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter, Demoiselles the la Seine 1819 Gustave Courbet, French Artist 1819 Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop, Netherlands, Dutch/French painter, Winter Scenes 1819 Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer, Don Quiotte 1818 Samuel Gibbs French, Major General Confederate Army 1818 Olivier Gloux, Aimard, French world explorer/writer, Grande Flibuste 1818 Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist 1818 Charles Gounod, French Composer 1817 Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter 1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days 1816 French A. Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect 1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1816 Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65 1816 French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa" 1815 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader 1815 Thomas Couture, French painter/author 1815 Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46 1815 Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist 1815 Nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90 1815 Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia 1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French 1815 Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright 1815 Jean Delphin Alard, French violinist and composer 1815 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor 1815 William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Charles Renouvier, French philosopher, neocriticism 1814 Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours 1814 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84 1814 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 1814 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter 1813 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author, Pensees 1813 Louis Veuillot, French Journalist 1813 Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French 1813 Claude Bernard, French Psychologist 1813 Jacques Delille, French Poet 1813 Louis-Sebastien Mercier, French poet (Le Deserteur), dies at 73 1813 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator 1812 Paul Abadie, French master builder, renovated Notre Dame 1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow 1812 Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain 1812 Henri A. Esquiros, French poet and writer, Les Vierges Folles 1812 Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French and Spanish 1811 Louis Blanc, French Politician 1811 Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G 1811 French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht 1811 C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer, Caid, Francoise de Rimini 1811 Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera 1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel 1811 Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Chant du Depart), dies at 46 1810 Jean-Georges Noverre, French choreographer (ballet d'action), dies 1810 Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son 1810 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist 1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam 1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 1810 Felicien C. David, French composer, Perle du Bresil, Desert 1810 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer 1810 Eliphas Levi, French Author 1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to French 1810 Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French and Bavarians, shot dead 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine 1809 Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, French psychologist, dementia praecox 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate 1809 Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army 1809 Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member 1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war 1809 Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78 1809 Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92 1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege 1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) 1808 Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher, Horatius 1808 Alphonse Karr, French Critic 1808 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names 1808 French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples 1808 Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians 1808 Napoleon annexes Tuscany and gave it seats in French Senate 1808 Gerard De Nerval, French Novelist 1808 Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, Sylvia 1808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid 1808 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace 1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names 1807 Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72 1807 Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies 1807 French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon 1807 Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, born in Paris, France, French politician and revolutionary 1807 Henri Klimrath, French lawyer, Memoire sur lesson Olim 1807 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79 1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve 1806 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70 1806 Jean-Honore Fragonard, French painter/engraver, dies at 74 1806 Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82 1806 French evacuate Vienna 1805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism 1805 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, Knife 1805 Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French 1805 Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies 1805 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79 1805 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73 1804 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer, Informal Talk 1804 Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64 1804 England mobilizes to protect against French invasion 1804 Jean C F Demolombe, prince de l'exegese, French lawyer 1804 Victor Schoelcher, Guadeloupe, abolished french slavery 1804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted 1804 Eugene Sue, French Novelist 1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French 1803 Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician, Sturm's Theorem 1803 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic, Si j'etait roi 1803 Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano 1803 John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine 1803 French law rules the use of intention 1803 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian, Ahasverus 1803 William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature" 1803 Gugliemo Libri, della Somaia, Italian/French mathematician/book collector 1802 Alexander Dumas, French Novelist 1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Heros 1802 French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms 1802 Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader, Congregation of Heart 1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled 1802 Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist 1802 Marie Allard, French ballerina, dies at 59 1801 Antoine A. Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician, rule of Cournot 1801 Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish 1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet 1801 Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British 1801 Frederic Bastiat, French Economist 1801 Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer, My Uncle Benjamin 1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt 1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops 1800 Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general/architect, murdered at 47 1800 French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged 1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles 1800 Louis Hachette, French publisher, Librairie Hachette 1800 Paulin Paris, French historian 1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi 1799 Rene-Auguste Caillie, French explorer 1799 Battle at Castricum: French and Bataafs army beats English/Russian army 1799 Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist 1799 Prosper Meniere, French ear doctor, Meniere Syndrome 1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I 1799 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies 1798 Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg 1798 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker, octobas 1798 JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist 1798 Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English 1798 Jules Michelet, French historian, History of France, L'Amour 1798 British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile 1798 Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet 1798 Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher, Journal 1798 Theodore Caruelle d'Aligny, French painter/etcher 1797 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies 1797 Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36 1797 Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman 1797 Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic, 1871-77 1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer, Moise, Chatterton 1797 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet 1797 Antoine d'Auvergne, French opera composer (Coquette Trompee), dies at 83 1796 Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy 1796 Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies 1796 French troops occupy Milan 1796 French government arrest 10 utopists 1796 Isaac M "Isaac A" Cremieux, French lawyer/minister of Justice 1796 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French National Convention chairman, dies at 46 1795 Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian, French Revolution 1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem 1795 Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state 1795 Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French historian (Ancient Greece), dies 1795 Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French general Michaud 1795 French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance 1795 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht, Netherlands 1794 French troops conquer Grave, Netherlands 1794 French troops conquer Nijmegen 1794 French troops conquer Maastricht 1794 French troops occupies Venlo 1794 French troops occupy Hertogenbosch 1794 French troops conquer Crevecoeur 1794 French troops occupy Lock 1794 Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39 1794 Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined 1794 Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Franeais sur leurs), dies 1794 French troops occupy Charleroi 1794 English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French 1794 Antoine Lavoisier, French Scientist 1794 Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34 1794 Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician, dies 1794 Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary 1794 Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer 1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 1794 French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery 1793 Michel Chasles, French mathematician, geometry 1793 Jean-Sylvain, French historian (Napoleon), executed at 53 1793 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 1793 British troops under major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti 1793 In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins 1793 Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed 1793 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies 1793 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44 1793 Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday 1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies 1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public 1793 Netherlands captures French island of St. Maarten (held until 1795) 1793 Edouard Corbiere, French captain and writer, Le negrier 1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands 1793 French troops conquer Breda 1793 Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1792 Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education 1792 Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians 1792 Origin of French Republican Era 1792 1st French Republic forms 1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy 1792 Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette 1792 Prussia army moves into French territory 1792 King Louis XVI fires French government 1792 Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist 1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars 1791 A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist, Bertrand et Raton 1791 Marie Louise, French Royalty 1791 1st session of new French legislative assembly 1791 J L A Theodore Gericault, French painter, Easy-Going of Medusa 1791 Theodore Gericault, French painter, Easy-going of Medusa 1791 French Constitution passed by French National Assembly 1791 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart 1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne 1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution 1790 Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet 1789 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies 1789 French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law 1789 French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen" 1789 Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician 1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system 1789 E J Horace Vernet, French painter 1789 French States-General for It first since 1614 together 1789 Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63 1788 Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance 1788 King Louis XVI calls French States and Generals together 1788 Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 1788 Masses stone French government army at Grenoble 1788 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61 1788 Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor 1787 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, French painter, daguerreotype 1787 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1787 Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician 1787 French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax 1787 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 1787 Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 1786 D. Francois J. Arago, French astronomer, physicist, and politician 1785 Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM, 1835-36 1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies 1785 French cardinal De Rohan arrested 1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident 1784 Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies 1784 Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), dies 1784 Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer, chamber music 1784 Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer, dies at 56 1784 Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1783 Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands, 1806-10 1782 Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, L'avenir 1782 Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian 1782 Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French 1782 French fleet occupies St. Christopher 1782 British garrison surrenders to French and Spanish fleet 1782 Daniel-Franeois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, Fra Diavolo 1782 Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84 1782 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83 1781 Frederic Phelypeaux, French earl of Maurepas, dies 1781 Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War 1781 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown 1781 Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis 1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War 1781 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician, Poisson verdeling 1781 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician 1781 French fleet occupies Tobago 1781 French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope 1780 Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher 1780 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter, Valpincon Bather 1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64 1780 Charles Nodier, French writer, La fee aux miettes 1780 Claire EJ, countess of Remusat/Vergennes/French author, Salon 1779 Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter, dies at 80 1779 Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP 1779 Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest 1779 French fleet occupies Grenada 1779 French fleet occupies St. Vincent 1778 Louis Napoleon, French king of Netherlands, 1806-10 1778 Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies 1778 Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, French writer (Candide), dies at 42 1778 Charles F, duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X 1778 Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57 1777 Guillaume Coustou, Jr., French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61 1777 Claude-Prosper J de Crebillon, French writer (Le sopha), dies at 70 1777 Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker 1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die 1776 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet, Prolegomenes 1776 Julie de Lespinasse, French Author 1776 Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns 1775 Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulame/General of France 1774 Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80 1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and balloonist 1772 Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader 1772 Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77 1772 F M Charles Fourier, French socialist 1772 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73 1772 Louis Tocque, French painter, dies at 75 1772 Paul-Louis Courier, de Mere, French writer/interpreter 1771 Claude A Helvetius, French encyclopedist (L'esprit), dies at 56 1771 Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist and composer 1771 French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter 1771 Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy 1771 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66 1770 Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general, Waterloo, Elba 1770 Etienne P de Senancour, French author, Obermann 1770 Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, defeated Prussians 1769 Georges Cuvier, French zoologist, La Regne Animal 1769 Michel Ney, French marshal, Waterloo 1769 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, Political Economics 1768 Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68 1768 Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general, Maastricht 1768 Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist 1768 Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister, 1834-35 1768 Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82 1767 H Benjamin Constant, de Rebeque, French politician/writer 1767 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 1766 Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM, 1815-18, 1820-21 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French 1766 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian, Napoleon 1766 Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer, Les Venitiens 1765 Joseph N. Niepce, French inventor, photography 1764 Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80 1764 St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue 1764 Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet, Cajus Graechus 1764 Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French Vice-Admiral/minister of Navy 1763 Claude Chappe, French engineer, optical telegraph 1763 French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73 1763 Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, French organist/opera composer, Le Jeune Henri 1763 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher 1763 Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden and Norway, 1818-44 1763 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator 1762 Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet, Elegies 1762 Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator 1762 Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French poet (Idomenee), dies at 88 1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French 1761 Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress 1761 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer and Brigadier General 1761 Earl d'Andreossi, French general and member of parliament 1760 French commandant Belatre surrenders Detroit to Major R Rogers 1760 Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist, Tribun du Peuple 1760 French army gives Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst 1760 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69 1760 MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers 1760 Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French 1759 Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French 1759 Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary 1759 Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician 1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British 1759 James Wolfe and the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed 1759 Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47 1759 British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) 1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY 1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) 1759 Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician 1759 French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen 1759 British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India 1759 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader 1758 Britain capture Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh) from French 1758 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60 1758 Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer 1758 Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat, 1781 1758 Franz Joseph Gall, German and French physician, frenology 1758 Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer 1757 Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French and Indian War) 1757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary 1757 English Ft. William Henry, New York, surrenders to French and Indians troops 1757 Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland 1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens 1756 French capture Fort Oswego, New York 1756 French fleet conquer St. Philips Castle of Minorca 1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public 1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War) 1756 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79 1756 Louis H J Conde, French prince 1755 French ambassador recalled from London 1755 Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British 1755 British General E. Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War 1755 E Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French and Indian War 1755 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer, Fisiologia del Gusto 1755 Georges Couthon, French politician 1755 Baron de Montesquieu, French Philosopher 1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft. Necessity (7 Years' War) 1754 George Washington defeats French and indians at Ft. Duquesne near Pittsburgh 1754 Joseph Joubert, French Writer 1754 Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-Perigord, French bishop/premier, 1815 1754 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat 1753 Jean J R de Cambacere, French lawyer/minister of justice 1753 Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies 1753 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader 1753 King Louis XV disbands French parliament 1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle 1753 Joseph de Maistre, French Diplomat 1753 Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general and architect, Mainz, Fleurus 1753 Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet 1752 Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57 1752 Daniel Marot, French/Netherlands, architect/engraver, dies at about 88 1752 French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India 1750 Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical, Apollonii Lexicon 1749 Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72 1749 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician 1748 Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer 1748 French troops conquer Maastricht 1748 French troops occupy Maastricht 1747 Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79 1747 French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom 1747 French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands 1747 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker 1746 Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherlands armies 1746 French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras 1746 Philip V, French King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46), dies at 62 1746 Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army 1746 French troops conquer Antwerp 1746 French troops conquer Brussels 1746 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68 1745 French troops attack indians of Saratoga, New York 1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland 1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French 1744 Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist 1744 Andre Campra, French priest/ composer and conductor (Tancrede), dies at 83 1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk 1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands 1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England 1744 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews) 1744 French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon 1743 Antoine Lavoisier, French Scientist 1743 English defeat French at Dettingen 1742 Marie Allard, French ballerina, Auguste Vestris 1742 Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64 1741 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer and choreographer, Menuet Reine 1741 French and Beiers army occupies Prague 1741 Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/clergyman, dies 1741 French troops attack the Rhine 1740 Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO, Council of 500 1740 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP 1739 French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty 1738 Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies 1738 Jacques Delille, French Poet 1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns 1737 Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer, Paul et Virgin 1736 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher, Mercure de France 1736 Jean-Sylvain, French historian, History of France 1736 Battle of Ackia (La), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat French 1736 Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Francois I) 1736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician 1734 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 1734 Louis RE prince de Rohan-Guemene, French archbishop of Straatsburg 1734 French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine 1734 Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle 1733 Francois Couperin "Le Grand", French composer, dies at 64 1733 Francois Couperin, French composer (Le Grand), dies at 64 1733 Jacques-Denis Antoine, French master builder, Hotel Maillebois Paris 1733 Ann-Therese de Marguent de Lambert, French marquess/author, dies at 86 1733 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Saon), dies at 75 1732 Julie de Lespinasse, French Author 1731 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter 1730 Augustin Pajou, French, court, sculptor, Psyche abandonnee 1730 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician 1729 Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer. 1729 Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French Lieutenant-General, dies at 77 1728 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47 1728 Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite 1728 Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer 1727 Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73 1727 Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance 1727 Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 1727 Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer, ballet d'action 1727 Michel Adanson, French biologist, Natural History of Senegal 1726 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver 1726 Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier 1726 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer 1726 Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas geographique), dies at 50 1725 French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter 1723 Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 1723 Philip, French duke of Orleans, regent 1715 - 1723, Prime Minister 1723, dies 1723 Abbe Dubois, French archbishop of Canbrier/premier (1722-23), dies 1723 Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect 1722 Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70 1722 French C. Hopffer patents fire extinguisher 1722 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60 1721 Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th 1721 Franciscus "French" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher 1721 Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies 1720 French government proclaims strike on banknotes 1720 Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor (Nazarin, Le Notre), dies at 80 1720 Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, Contes de La Fontaine 1719 Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85 1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found 1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician 1717 Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic, dies at 69 1717 Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75 1716 Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63 1716 Joseph M Vien, French, court, painter 1716 Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist 1716 Guillaume Coustou, Jr., French sculptor, Mausolee du Dauphin 1716 Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French historical writer, Greek Antiquity 1715 Nicolas Malebranche, French Philosopher 1715 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher, sensualism/Cours d'etudes 1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) 1715 Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68 1714 French and Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona 1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine 1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter 1714 Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer, geodesic labor 1714 Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies 1714 Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg 1714 Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies 1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Pigeon 1714 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Bird Cage 1713 Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher 1713 Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland 1713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese and French peace treaty 1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao 1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao 1712 Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, French educator, school for the deaf 1712 French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast 1712 Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies 1712 Giovanni D Cassini, French astronomer, dies 1712 Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies 1712 L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, French general in America 1711 French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro 1711 Nicolas Boileau, French Poet 1710 Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist 1710 Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor, garden sculptures 1709 Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74 1709 Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies 1708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians 1707 Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78 1707 Sebastien le Prestre Vauban, French fortress architect, dies at 73 1707 Claude-Prosper J de Crebillon, French writer, Le sopha 1706 Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59 1706 Chatelet, la belle Emilie, French writer 1706 Gabrielle Chatelet, La belle Emilie, French writer, Voltaire 1706 Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed 1705 Ninon de L'Enclos, French Author 1705 Guillaume Amontons, French physicist, dies at 42 1705 Parliament declares Hungary independently/French Rakoczi becomes king 1705 Charles A. Vanloo, French painter 1704 Battle at Malaga: French vs English and Dutch fleet 1704 French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany 1704 Duke of Marlborough beats French and Bavarians at Blenheim 1704 Jacques Bossuet, French Clergyman 1704 French and Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 50, abduct 100 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies 1704 Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 1704 Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62 1702 Battle in Bay of Vigo: Netherlands/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet 1702 Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron 1702 Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French 1702 Dominique Bouhours, French Critic 1702 Jean Bart, French captain and sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), dies at 51 1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/French admiral, dies at 58 1700 Philippe Buache, French geographer/cartographer, Contourlijnen 1700 Daniel Bernoulli, born in Basel, Switzerland, mathematician, 10 time French award 1699 Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter 1699 Jean Racine, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate', dies at 59 1699 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer 1698 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect, Palace de la Concorde 1698 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer 1697 Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War 1697 Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer 1697 Abbe Prevost, French novelist and journalist, Manon Lescaut 1696 Louis Tocque, French painter 1696 French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace 1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance 1696 Jean de La Bruyere, French author, dies at 50 1696 Madame de Sevigne, French Writer 1696 Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal 1695 French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III 1695 French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels 1695 French garrison of surrenders to Willem III 1695 Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73 1695 Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies 1694 Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 1694 Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer 1694 Louis-Claude Daquin, d'Acquin, French organist/composer, La Rose 1694 Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports 1694 Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV 1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army 1693 Roger de Rabutin, French Writer 1692 Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army 1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein) 1691 Isaac de Benserade, French Poet 1691 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist 1691 French troops occupy Mons 1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist 1690 Gedeon Tallemant van de Reaux, French author (Historiettes), dies at 71 1690 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43 1690 Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye 1690 Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army 1690 Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Netherlands/English fleet 1690 French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland 1690 French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire 1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French 1689 French van Mieris "the Young", Dutch painter/historian 1689 Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French 1689 Battle of Bantry Bay, French and English naval battle 1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain 1689 Baron de Montesquieu, French Philosopher 1688 French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands 1688 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53 1688 French troops occupies Palts 1688 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89 1687 Renatus Rapinus, Rene Rapin, French poet (Jansenisme), dies 1687 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, French explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43 1686 Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75 1686 Godefroi L Count d'Estrades, French diplomat 1686 Godefroi L earl d'estrades, French diplomat/marshal, dies at about 78 1686 Nicolas-Franeois Blondel, French architect, dies 1685 French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes 1685 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter 1684 Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter, Onverschillige 1684 Pierre Corneille, French lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42 1684 Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter 1684 French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon 1684 Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44 1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America 1683 Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance 1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64 1682 Nationally Council accept independence of French church 1681 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg 1681 French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45 1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas 1680 Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer 1679 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist 1679 Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter 1678 French Admiral Jean d'Estrees' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaeao 1678 French conquering fleet at Curaeao, 1200 die 1678 French troops conquer Ypres 1678 Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop 1677 French troops occupy Freiburg 1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor, Chevaux the Marly 1677 Battle at Catania: between French and Dutch fleet 1677 Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III 1677 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer, rings of Saturn 1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet 1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg 1674 Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies 1674 Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French poet, Atree et Thyeste 1673 Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English and French fleet 1673 French troops conquer Maastricht 1673 Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg 1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 1673 Moliare, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French author (Learned Lady), dies 1673 Moliere, French Playwright 1672 French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht 1672 French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith 1672 Battle by Solebay: Dutch Admiral M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 1671 Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine 1671 French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty 1671 Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies 1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright and poet, Sacred Odes and Songs 1670 English king Charles II and French king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty 1670 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion 1668 Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64 1668 Alain R Lesage, French author, Turcaret ou le Financier 1668 England, Netherlands and Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French 1667 Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion 1667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician, De Moivre's theorem 1667 French troops attack into Southern Netherlands 1667 Georges de Scudery, French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at 65 1667 Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) 1666 French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86 1665 Nicholas Poussin, French painter, dies 1665 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63 1664 Moise Amyrault, French theologist/vicar, dies 1663 Guillaume Amontons, French physicist 1663 Pierre Drevet, French engraver 1662 Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher 1661 Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elect, Anti-Lucretius 1661 French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested 1661 Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet 1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier 1660 Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 1660 Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 1660 Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51 1659 Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV 1658 Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at 78 1658 Spanish garrison at Duinkerk surrenders to French and British 1658 French fleet recaptures Duinkerk 1658 Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish 1658 Antoine Cadillac, french colonial governor of America 1658 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor, Descente de Croix 1657 French troops occupy Mardyke 1656 Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet, Gradus ad Parnassum 1655 Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63 1655 Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris 1655 Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author, dies at 36 1655 Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedy writer, Slave in Algeria 1654 French troops occupy Stenay 1653 Claudius Salmasius, Claude Saumaise, French linguistic, dies at 65 1653 Jacques Basnage, French/Netherlands historian/vicar 1653 Gabriel Naude, French librarian/ composer, dies at 53 1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician 1652 Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans 1652 Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels 1651 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint 1650 Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero, Escape from Plymouth 1650 French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain 1650 French Prince Louis II of Conde captured 1649 Simon Vouet, French painter 1648 Dutch and French agree to divide St. Maarten, Leeward Islands 1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59 1648 Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards 1648 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together 1648 Vincent Voiture, French Poet 1648 Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic, quietisme 1647 Pierre Bayle, French/Netherlands theologist/philosopher/writer 1647 French cardinal Mazarin and duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, Papiniaanse pot, steam machine 1647 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint 1646 Antoine Galland, French orientalist and interpreter 1645 Jean de La Bruyere, French author 1645 Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians 1644 Isabella van Bourbon, French princess of Henri IV, dies 1644 French troops occupy Mainz 1644 Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV 1643 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer, Louisiana 1643 Rene R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer 1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army 1642 Cardinal Richelieu, French Clergyman 1642 Perpignan surrenders to French troops 1642 Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed 1642 Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 1641 Battle at La Marfee Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army 1641 Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman, Marquis de Louvois 1641 Franciscus Gomarus, Francois Gomaer, French theologist, dies 1640 Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized 1640 Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies 1639 Jean Racine, born in La Ferte-Milon, France, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate' 1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan 1639 Academie Franeaise begins Dictionary of French Language 1639 Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian 1638 Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies 1638 French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine 1638 French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam 1638 Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher 1638 Nicolas Malebranche, French Philosopher 1638 Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gie, French hugenot leader, dies at 58 1638 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 1638 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies 1638 Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright 1637 Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies 1636 Nicolas Boileau, French Poet 1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean 1635 Philippe Quinault, French playwright, L'amant indiscret 1635 Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 1634 Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist/jansenist, Jesus-Christ Penitent 1633 Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban, French fortress architect 1632 Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed 1632 Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded 1632 Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont 1629 Pierre the Berulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies 1629 Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited 1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain 1628 Noel Coypel, French painter 1628 French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle 1628 Francois de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier 1627 English assault on French Il de Re 1627 Jacques Bossuet, French Clergyman 1626 Huguenot rebels and French sign Peace of La Rochelle 1626 Madame de Sevigne, French Writer 1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright 1625 English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette 1625 Honore d'urfe, French writer (L'astree), dies at 67 1622 Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 1622 French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier 1622 Moliere, French Playwright 1621 Renatus Rapinus, Rene Rapin, French jesuit/poet, Hortorum libri IV 1621 Jean de la Fontaine, French poet, Fables 1621 French government army occupies Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle 1620 French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII 1620 Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65 1620 Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici 1620 Jean Picard, French astronomer 1620 Francois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist 1619 Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies 1619 Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux, French author, Historiettes 1619 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron 1619 Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies 1618 Roger de Rabutin, French Writer 1617 Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered 1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War 1616 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter 1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war 1616 Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic 1614 French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult 1613 Isaac de Benserade, French Poet 1613 Mathurin Regnier, French poet (Macette), dies 1613 Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer 1612 Michel Anguier, French sculptor 1612 Antoine Arnauld, Grand Arnauld, French lawyer/theologist 1611 Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome 1610 Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist 1610 Paul Scarron, French playwright, Virgile Travesti 1610 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king 1610 Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists 1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 1608 Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general 1605 Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer 1604 Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot, dies 1603 Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies 1602 Franciscus Junius, French/Netherlands calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57 1602 Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister, 1642-61 1601 Georges de Scudery, French writer, Observations sur le Cid 1598 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized 1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1598 French king Henri IV and duke van Mercour sign treaty 1597 Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV 1597 French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria 1597 Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Netherlands publisher, dies 1597 Vincent Voiture, French Poet 1596 English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant" 1595 French king Henri IV declares war on Spain 1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris 1593 Georges de la Tour, French painter 1593 Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 1592 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher (L'Amitie), dies at 59 1592 Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher 1591 French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France 1591 Jacqueline M A de Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess 1591 French king Henri IV occupies Rouen 1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV 1591 Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60 1591 Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59 1590 Ambroise Pare, French surgeon, dies at 80 1590 Cujacius, Jacques Cujas, French lawyer, dies at about 68 1590 Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League 1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 1590 Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 1589 Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet (Carminum Liber I), dies at 57 1589 Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League 1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III 1589 Jacques Clement, French monk (Henri III), dies 1589 Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies 1589 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright and poet 1588 Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 1588 French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League 1588 Claudius Salmasius, Claude Saumaise, French linguist 1585 Cardinal Richelieu, French Clergyman 1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms 1585 Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas, French grammarian 1584 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28 1583 Duke French van Valois returns to France 1583 Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries 1582 French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders 1582 French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen 1581 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist 1580 French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign peace treaty 1579 Henri II, Duke de Rohan-Gie, French Huguenot leader 1578 Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands 1575 French Roman Catholics and Huguenots signs treaty 1575 Pierre de Berulle, French cardinal 1573 Mathurin Regnier, French poet, Macette 1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants 1572 Charles de Feligny, French officer/huguenot, murdered 1572 Gaspard de Chatillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded 1571 Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60 1569 Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies 1569 Lodewijk Conde, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies 1569 Louis Conde, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle 1568 Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain, dies at 23 1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike 1568 Honore d'Urfe, French writer, L'Astree 1567 Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots 1567 Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint 1567 Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies 1566 Nostradamus, Michel de Nostre-Dam, French astrologist, dies at 62 1566 Diane de Poitiers, lover of French King Henry II, dies 1565 Jean Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile, dies 1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French 1564 John Calvin, French Theologian 1563 French army recaptures Le Havre 1563 Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44 1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut and Hugenots at Parris Is NC 1561 By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended 1560 Marie Guise, French wife of king Jacobus V of Scotland, dies at 44 1560 Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies 1558 French king Henri II occupies Calais 1558 Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies 1558 Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Francois 1558 Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies 1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French 1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown) 1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 1556 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant 1555 French Vervoort, Flemish mystic (Bruylocht Cleedt), dies at about 65 1555 Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange 1553 Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49 1552 Theodore-Agrippa d'Aubigne, French/Swiss historian/poet, Tragiques 1550 Henri Guise [le Balafre], French duke/leader, Catholic League 1549 French troops occupy Ambleteuse England 1545 Franciscus Junius, Francois du Jon, French/Netherlands calvinist theologist 1545 Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain/daughter of Henri II 1545 French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed 1544 Peace of Crepy: German emperor Charles V and French king Francois I 1544 Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss 1543 French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice 1543 French and Turkish troops occupy Nice 1543 French troops invade Luxembourg 1542 French troops leave Flanders 1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders 1540 Guillaume Bude, French humanist, dies at about 72 1538 Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V and King French I 1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire 1537 French troops invade Flanders 1536 French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada 1535 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) 1534 New pursuit of French protestants 1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland 1532 Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet, Les amours de Meline 1531 Louise Van Savoye, French regent of king Francois I, dies at 55 1530 Louis I Conde, French prince/leader of hugenots 1530 Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 1529 "Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V and King French I 1529 Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake 1528 Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV 1526 French king Francois I freed from Spain 1525 Battle at Pavia: Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king 1525 Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia 1524 Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, Anti-Tribonien 1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-general French Van de Holly 1522 Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of French king Louis XI, dies at 61 1522 French troops driven out of Genoa 1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland 1521 French king Francois I declares war on Spain 1521 Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general, Jarnac 1519 Francois de Guise, Balafre, French general strategist, Calais 1519 Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral | |