1894 in France

Events from the year 1894 in France.

Incumbents

Events

4 January – Franco-Russian Alliance: A military alliance is established between France and the Russian Empire, pledged to remain so as long as the Triple Alliance (1882) exists.
15 February – French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Observatory, London, England with a bomb.
22 June – Dahomey becomes a French colony.
23 June – International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
24 June – Assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France.
15 August – Sante Geronimo Caserio is executed for the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot.
15 October – Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying: Dreyfus affair begins.
5 November – Crédit Agricole established.
7 November – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France.
19 December – Trial and conviction of Alfred Dreyfus begins at the Cherche-Midi prison and lasts four days.
22 December – Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason.
31 December – Dreyfus' appeal to the military court of revision — a formality — is rejected.
Venus of Brassempouy is discovered.
Émile Delahaye produces the first Delahaye automobile in Tours.
Paul Cézanne paints Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier.

Literature

Music

Claude Debussy
* Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
* Proses lyriques
Gabriel Fauré
* Hymne à Apollon
* La Bonne Chanson
* Nocturne No. 6
* 2 Motets, Op. 65
Vincent d'Indy - Prélude et Petit Canon, Op. 38
Jules Massenet
* Thaïs
* La Navarraise
Camille Saint-Saëns
* 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 99
* ''Thème varié''

Births

January to June

12 January – Georges Carpentier, boxer
18 January – Romain Bellenger, cyclist
6 February – André Marchal, organist and organ teacher
14 March – Marie-Simone Capony, teacher, fifth-oldest person in the world
26 March – Albert Achard, World War I flying ace
9 April – Jean Gounot, gymnast and Olympic medallist
23 April – Georges Renavent, actor
10 May – Paul Dujardin, water polo player and Olympic medallist
27 May – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, writer
2 June – Jean Gachet, boxer and Olympic medallist
13 June – Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer and painter

July to September

25 July – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress
19 August – André Lefèbvre, automobile engineer
27 August – André Lurçat, architect
3 September
* Marie Dubas, music-hall singer and comedian
* André Hébuterne, painter
8 September – Andrée Vaurabourg, pianist and teacher
14 September – Pierre-Marie Théas, Bishop
15 September – Jean Renoir, film director

October to December

17 October – Félix Amiot, aircraft constructor
25 October – Claude Cahun, photographer and writer
30 October – Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher
4 November – Gabriel Auphan, Admiral
5 November – René Laforgue, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
7 December – Louis Béguet, rugby union player
19 December – Paul Baudouin, banker, politician and Minister
25 December – Maurice Floquet, France's oldest man on record

Full date unknown

Marcel LaFosse, classical trumpeter
Georges Miquelle, cellist

Deaths

29 January – Armand Gautier, painter and lithographer
3 February – Edmond Frémy, chemist
6 February – Maria Deraismes, author and pioneer for women's rights
9 February – Maxime Du Camp, writer and photographer
14 February – Jacques-Léonard Maillet, sculptor
20 May – Philippe Édouard Foucaux, Tibetologist
25 June – Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France
1 July – Jean-Joseph Carriès, sculptor, ceramist, and miniaturist
2 September – Pauline Duvernay, dancer
8 November – Louis Figuier, scientist and writer
7 December – Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of the Suez Canal

Full date unknown

Jacques Claude Demogeot, man of letters