1872 in France

Events from the year 1872 in France.

Incumbents

22 May - Georges Bizet's comic opera Djamileh is premiÃÂ¨red at the OpÃÂ©ra-Comique in Paris.
13 November (07:35) (probable date) - Claude Monet begins painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant, the painting that will give a name to Impressionism) as viewed from his hotel room at Le Havre.
27 November - Meteor shower display over France.
Louis Ducos du Hauron creates an early color photograph.
Chargeurs established as a shipping company.
S. T. Dupont begins manufacture of luxury leather goods.

16 January - Henri BÃÂ¼sser, composer and conductor (died 1973)
18 January - Prince Emmanuel, Duke of VendÃÂ´me, noble from the House of OrlÃÂ©ans (died 1931)
24 February - Gustave Sandras, artistic gymnast (died 1951)
26 March - ÃÂmile Armand, individualist anarchist (died 1962)
7 June - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (died 1932)
1 July - Louis BlÃÂ©riot, inventor, engineer and aviation pioneer (died 1936)
2 July - GaÃÂ«tan Gatian de ClÃÂ©rambault, psychiatrist (died 1934)
15 July - Jean Dargassies, racing cyclist (died 1965)
28 July - Albert Sarraut, politician, twice Prime Minister of France (died 1962)
22 September - Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, painter (died 1967)
17 October Ã¢ÂÂ Madeleine Rolland, translator and peace activist (died 1960)
30 November - Maurice de la Taille, priest and writer (died 1933)
12 December - Daniel HalÃÂ©vy, historian (died 1962)

5 July - Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers, surgeon (born 1808)
21 October - Jacques Babinet, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1794)
29 October - Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, chess master (born 1800)
10 December - ÃÂtienne Arnal, actor (born 1794)