Events from the year 1871 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Literature
Births
- 7 January - ÃÂmile Borel, mathematician and politician (died 1956)
- 6 May - Victor Grignard, chemist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (died 1935)
- 27 May - Georges Rouault, painter and printmaker (died 1958)
- 10 July - Marcel Proust, novelist, essayist and critic (died 1922)
- 29 August - Albert Lebrun, politician and President of France (died 1950)
- 30 October - Paul Valéry, poet, essayist and philosopher (died 1945)
- Undated
- Camille Gandilhon Gens d'Armes, French poet (d. 1948)
Deaths
- 25 January - Jeanne Villepreux-Power, marine biologist (born 1794)
- 2 March - Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, naval painter (born 1810)
- 3 April - Gustave Flourens, revolutionary leader and writer (born 1838)
- 8 April - Jean-Baptiste Guimet, industrial chemist (born 1795)
- 13 May - Daniel Auber, composer (born 1782)
- 22 May - Jean-François Cail, entrepreneur and industrialist (born 1804)
- June - Charles Antoine Lemaire, botanist and botanical author (born 1800)
- 1 July - Charles Texier, historian and archaeologist (born 1802)
- 20 July - François Delsarte, musician and teacher (born 1811)
- 5 August - Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie, engineer (born 1805)
- 9 September - Louis ÃÂdouard Bouët-Willaumez, admiral (born 1808)
- Full date unknown - Louis Dominique Girard, hydraulic engineer (born 1815)
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