1861 in France

Events from the year 1861 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Napoleon III

Events

• News of Henri Mouhot's discovery of Angkor Wat is published.

Births

• 1 January – Jacques Émile Blanche, painter (died 1942)
• 15 February – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (died 1938)
• 21 February – Pierre de Bréville, composer (died 1949)
• 30 October – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (died 1929)
• 2 November – Maurice Blondel, philosopher (died 1949)
• 8 December
• Aristide Maillol, sculptor (died 1944)
• Georges Méliès, filmmaker (died 1938)
• 16 December – Antonio de La Gandara, painter and draughtsman (died 1917)

Deaths

• 5 February – Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (born 1810)
• 10 April – Édouard Ménétries, entomologist (born 1802)
• 14 July – Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (born 1783)
• 24 August – Pierre Berthier, geologist and mining engineer (born 1782)
• 22 September – Rose Chéri, actress (born 1824)
• 10 November – Henri Mouhot, naturalist and explorer (born 1826)
• 10 November – Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (born 1805)
• 15 November – David Carcassonne, physician (born 1789)
• 20 November – Pierre Frédéric Sarrus, mathematician (born 1798)
• 21 November – Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist (born 1802)
• 25 November – Ferdinand Eckstein, philosopher and playwright (born 1790 in Denmark)

Full date unknown

• Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer, violinist and conductor (born 1789)
• Marie-Alfred de Suin, French vice-admiral and commander (born 1796)

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