1869 in France
Events from the year 1869 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 2 May - Folies Bergère opens in Paris as the Folies Trévise.
- 23 May - Legislative election held.
- 6 June - Legislative election held to elect the fourth legislature of the French Second Empire.
- 15 July - Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès files a patent for margarine.
Births
- 7 March - Paul Émile Chabas, painter
- 8 April - Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal
- 12 April - Henri Désiré Landru, serial killer
- 23 April - Louise Compain, feminist author
- 29 July - Paul Aymé, tennis player
- 22 November - André Gide, author and winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1947
- 31 December - Henri Matisse, artist
Deaths
- 8 January - Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, geologist and metallurgist
- 8 March - Hector Berlioz, composer
- 31 March - Allan Kardec, founder of Spiritism
- 8 June - Felix-Joseph Barbelin, Jesuit influential in the development of the Catholic community in Philadelphia
- 6 September - Jean-Pierre Dantan, sculptor
- 7 September - Auguste Simon Paris, notary and entomologist
- 13 October - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, literary critic
- 15 October - Charles Nicholas Aubé, physician and entomologist
- 31 December - Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist