1873 in France
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See also: 1872 in France, other events of 1873, 1874 in France.
Events from the year 1873 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 16 September - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.
- 21 December - Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.
[edit] Births
- 2 January - Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (d.1897).
- 28 January - Colette, writer (d.1954).
- 2 February - Maurice Tourneur, film director and screenwriter (d.1961).
- 19 February - Louis Feuillade, film director (d.1925).
- 17 May - Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist (d.1935).
- 28 June - Alexis Carrel, surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1944).
- 1 July - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer filmmaker, first female film director (d.1968).
- 4 August - Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician (d.1972).
- 25 November - Pierre Lacau, Egyptologist and philologist (d.1963).
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- Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist (d.1972).
[edit] Deaths
- 9 January - Napoleon III of France, first President of the French Republic and only emperor of the Second French Empire (b.1808).
- 1 April - Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters (b.1801).
- 16 April - Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (b.1839).
- 4 May - Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral (b.1807).
- 18 July - Philarète Chasles, critic and man of letters (b.1798).
- 8 August - Antoine Chintreuil, painter (b.1814).
- 7 September - Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (b.1807).
- 23 September - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (b.1823).
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- Eugène Flachat, civil engineer (b.1802).
- Louis Gustave Ricard, painter (b.1823).
