Events from the year 1880 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Literature
Music
Births
- 14 January â Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Cardinal (died 1965)
- 5 February â Gabriel Voisin, aviation pioneer (died 1973)
- 20 February â Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (died 1923)
- 21 February â Pierre Chaumié, politician (died 1966)
- 17 April â Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (died 1967)
- 25 May â Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (died 1967)
- 26 August â Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (died 1918)
- 12 October â Marcel-Bruno Gensoul, admiral (d. 1973)
- 8 December â Clément-Emile Roques, Cardinal (died 1964)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 4 January â Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (born 1801)
- 17 January â Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (born 1819)
- 31 January â Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1806)
- 8 May â Gustave Flaubert, novelist (born 1821)
- 24 June â Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (born 1822)
- 9 July â Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (born 1824)
- 5 October - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (born 1819)
- 22 October - Alphonse Pénaud, aeronautical pioneer (born 1850)
- 10 November â Sabin Berthelot, naturalist and ethnologist (born 1794)
- 20 November â Léon Cogniet, painter (born 1794)
- 24 November â Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
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