1895 in France
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Events from the year 1895 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris.
- 17 January - Dreyfus is moved into a military reformatory on the island of Ré.
- 21 February - Dreyfus is put on board ship to be exiled.
- 15 March - Dreyfus is landed on Devil's Island.
[edit] Births
- 20 March - Robert Benoist, motor racing driver and war hero (executed) (d.1944).
- 3 May - Gabriel Chevallier, novelist (d.1969).
- 2 July - Gen Paul, painter and engraver (d.1975).
- 24 September - André Frédéric Cournand, physician and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (d.1988).
- 5 November - Walter Gieseking, pianist and composer (d.1956).
- 14 December - Paul Éluard, poet (d.1952).
[edit] Deaths
- 10 January - Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (b.1849).
- 29 January - Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (b.1822).
- 16 February - André Garin, missionary and parish priest (b.1822).
- 11 May - Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, professor of apologetics (b.1834).
- 22 May - Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (b.1817).
- 28 September - Louis Pasteur, chemist and microbiologist (b.1822).
- 27 November - Alexandre Dumas, fils, writer, author and playwright (b.1824).
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- Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, missionary, explorer and botanist (b.1834).
- Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, historian (b.1820).
