Events from the year 1883 in France.
Incumbents
Literature
Events
Births
January to June
July to December
- 19 July â Louis Paulhan, pilot (died 1963)
- 25 July â Louis Massignon, scholar and historian of Islam (died 1962)
- 19 August â Coco Chanel, fashion designer (died 1971)
- 14 September â Rose Combe, writer and railway worker (died 1932)
- 14 December â Robert Péguy, film director (died 1968)
- 16 December â Max Linder, actor (died 1925)
- 17 December â Raimu, actor (died 1946)
- 19 December â Abel Bonnard, poet, novelist and politician (died 1968)
- 22 December â Edgard Varèse, composer (died 1965)
- 26 December â Maurice Utrillo, painter (died 1955)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 4 January â Antoine Chanzy, general and governor of Algeria (born 1823)
- 23 January â Gustave Doré, artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor (born 1832)
- 17 February â Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (born 1805)
- 24 April â Jules Sandeau, novelist (born 1811)
- 30 April â ÃÂdouard Manet, painter (born 1832)
- 5 May â Louis Viardot, writer, art historian and critic, theatrical figure, hispanophile and translator (born 1800)
- 11 May â Juliette Drouet, actress, mistress and secretary of Victor Hugo (born 1806)
- 19 May â Henri Rivière, Naval officer and writer (born 1827)
- 25 May â ÃÂdouard René de Laboulaye, jurist (born 1811)
- 20 June â Gustave Aimard, traveller and writer (born 1818)
- 11 August â Edouard Louis Dubufe, painter (born 1820)
- 24 August â Henri, comte de Chambord, Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France (born 1820)
- 6 September â Auguste Arnaud, sculptor (born 1825)
- 29 October â Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose, Cardinal (born 1800)
- 27 November â Charles Théodore Colet, Roman Catholic Archbishop (born 1806)
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