1873 in France

Events from the year 1873 in France.

Incumbents

Events

16 September – German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.
27 October - Henry, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned 'King Henry V of France' until France abandons its tricolour and returns to the old Bourbon flag.
21 December – Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.

Literature

Music

Births

2 January – Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint
28 January – Colette, writer
2 February – Maurice Tourneur, film director and screenwriter
19 February – Louis Feuillade, film director
17 May – Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist
28 June – Alexis Carrel, surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1 July – Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer filmmaker, first female film director
4 August –
* Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician
* Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist
14 August
*Madeleine Fournier-Sarlovèze, golfer
*Alice Jouenne educator, socialist activist, and writer
8 September – Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist
25 November – Pierre Lacau, Egyptologist and philologist

Deaths

10 January – Napoleon III of France, first President of the French Republic and only emperor of the Second French Empire
23 January – Louis Gustave Ricard, painter
1 April – Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters
16 April – Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet
4 May – Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral
16 June – Eugène Flachat, civil engineer
18 July – Philarète Chasles, critic and man of letters
8 August – Antoine Chintreuil, painter
7 September – Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist
21 September – Auguste Nélaton, physician and surgeon
23 September – Jean Chacornac, astronomer