1893 in France

Incumbents

• President: Marie François Sadi Carnot
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 4 April: Alexandre Ribot
• * 4 April-3 December: Charles Dupuy
• * starting 3 December: Jean Casimir-Perier

Events

• 10 March – Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
• 16–17 August – Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes: Italian workers of the Compagnie des Salins du Midi are attacked in Aigues-Mortes by French villagers and workers with at least 8 deaths. Anti-French riots erupt in Italy. In Rome the windows of the French Embassy are smashed and for a while the angry mob seems to get out of hand.
• 20 August – Legislative election held.
• 3 September – Legislative election held.
• 10 October – First vehicle registration plates in the Seine (department), under terms of a Paris Police Ordinance of 14 August.

Literature

• Anatole France - La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque
• Hector Malot - En famille
• Octave Mirbeau - Dans le ciel
• Jules Verne - Claudius Bombarnac / P'tit-Bonhomme
• Émile Zola - ''Le Docteur Pascal''

Births

January to June

• 3 February – Gaston Julia, mathematician.
• 5 February – Arsène Roux, Arabist and Berberologist.
• 15 March – Jules Moch, politician.
• 21 March – Marcel Rey-Golliet, boxer.
• 3 April – Bernard Faÿ, historian.
• 17 April – Marguerite Broquedis, tennis player.
• 12 May – René Mourlon, athlete and Olympic medallist.
• 14 May – Louis Verneuil, playwright and screenwriter.

July to December

• 28 July – Alfred Eluère, rugby union player.
• 15 August – Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer.
• 15 August – Pierre Dac, humorist and French Resistance activist.
• 17 August – Jean Laigret, biologist.
• 19 October – Henri Mignet, aircraft designer and builder.
• 1 November – Pierre Deley, pioneering pilot.
• 5 November – Raymond Loewy, industrial designer.
• 3 December – Edmond Decottignies, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist.
• 8 December – Pierre Etchebaster, real tennis player.
• 31 December – Robert Jacquinot, cyclist.

Deaths

• 10 January – Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada.
• 27 March – Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer.
• 4 April – Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist.
• 8 April – Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman.
• 12 April – Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame, printer and publisher.
• 28 April – Gustave Nadaud, songwriter and chansonnier.
• 16 August – Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology.
• 17 October – Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, general and politician, first President of the Third Republic.
• 18 October – Charles Gounod, composer.
• 4 November – Pierre Tirard, politician.
• 8 November – Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer.
• 17 November – Hippolyte Destailleur, architect.

Full date unknown

• Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot, naturalist and entomologist.
• Augustine Brohan, actress.
• Nicolas Édouard Delabarre-Duparcq, military critic and historian.
• Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize, painter.