1891 in France

Events

• 1 May - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies.
• 27 August - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.

Arts and Literature

• Gustave Moreau becomes a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Births

January to June

• 2 January - Didier Daurat, aviation pioneer (d.1969).
• 14 January - Félix Goethals, cyclist (d.1962).
• 19 April - Françoise Rosay, actress (d.1974).

July to September

• 11 July - Gabriel Benoist, writer (d.1964).
• 21 July - Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (d.1972).
• 6 August - Yvette Andréyor, actress (d.1962).
• 9 August - Joseph-Marie Martin, Cardinal (d.1976).
• 15 August - Jean De Briac, actor (d.1970).
• 3 September - Marcel Grandjany, harpist and composer (d.1975).
• 10 September - Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (d.2001).
• 26 September - Charles Münch, conductor and violinist (d.1968).

October to December

• 10 October - Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (d.1977).
• 17 November - Jean Del Val, actor (d.1975).
• 15 December - Martial Guéroult, philosopher and historian of philosophy (d.1976).
• 26 December - Jean Galtier-Boissière, writer, polemist and journalist (d.1966).
• 30 December - Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (d.1994).

Full date unknown

• Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (d.1972).

Deaths

January to June

• 14 January - Aimé Millet, sculptor (b.1819).
• 16 January - Léo Delibes, composer (b.1836).
• 21 January - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor (b.1815).
• 15 March - Théodore de Banville, poet and writer (b.1823).
• 29 March - Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel, Bishop of Toronto (b.1802).
• 29 March - Georges-Pierre Seurat, painter (b.1859).
• 24 May - Joseph Roumanille, poet (b.1818).

July to December

• 7 July - Célestin Joseph Félix, Jesuit (b.1810).
• 29 August - Pierre Lallement, bicycle inventor (b. c1843).
• 5 September - Elie Delaunay, painter (b.1828).
• 30 September - Georges Ernest Boulanger, general and politician (b.1837).
• 3 October - Édouard Lucas, mathematician (b.1842).
• 10 November - Arthur Rimbaud, poet (b.1854).
• 12 December - Charles Émile Freppel, Bishop and politician (b.1827).
• December - Émile Bayard, illustrator (b.1837).

Full date unknown

• Eugène Bouchut, physician (b.1818).

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