Events from the year 1891 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Literature
Music
Births
January to June
July to September
- 11 July
- Gabriel Benoist, writer (died 1964)
- Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, aviator (died 1944)
- 21 July â Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (died 1972)
- 1 August â Charles Ritz, hotelier and fly fisherman (died 1976)
- 6 August â Yvette Andréyor, actress (died 1962)
- 9 August â Joseph-Marie Martin, cardinal (died 1976)
- 15 August â Jean De Briac, actor (died 1970)
- 3 September â Marcel Grandjany, harpist and composer (died 1975)
- 10 September â Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (died 2001)
- 26 September â Charles Münch, conductor and violinist (died 1968)
October to December
Deaths
January to June
July to December
- 7 July â Célestin Joseph Félix, Jesuit (born 1810)
- 20 August â Leopold Chasseriau, planter (born 1825)
- 29 August â Pierre Lallement, bicycle inventor (b. c. 1843)
- 5 September â Elie Delaunay, painter (born 1828)
- 30 September â Georges Ernest Boulanger, general and politician (born 1837)
- 3 October â ÃÂdouard Lucas, mathematician (born 1842)
- 10 November â Arthur Rimbaud, poet (born 1854)
- 26 November â Eugène Bouchut, physician (born 1818)
- 12 December â Charles ÃÂmile Freppel, Bishop and politician (born 1827)
- December â ÃÂmile Bayard, illustrator (born 1837)
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