Events from the year 1893 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Literature
Births
January to June
July to December
- 28 July â Alfred Eluère, rugby union player (died 1985).
- 15 August â Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (died 1977).
- 15 August â Pierre Dac, humorist and French Resistance activist (died 1975).
- 17 August â Jean Laigret, biologist (died 1966).
- 19 October â Henri Mignet, aircraft designer and builder (died 1965).
- 1 November â Pierre Deley, pioneering pilot (died 1981).
- 5 November â Raymond Loewy, industrial designer (died 1986).
- 3 December â Edmond Decottignies, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1963).
- 8 December â Pierre Etchebaster, real tennis player (died 1980).
- 31 December â Robert Jacquinot, cyclist (died 1980).
Deaths
- 10 January â Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada (born 1832).
- 27 March â Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer (born 1815).
- 4 April â Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist (born 1806).
- 8 April â Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman (born 1815).
- 12 April â Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame, printer and publisher (born 1811).
- 14 April â Jacques Marie François Bigot, naturalist and entomologist (born 1818).
- 28 April â Gustave Nadaud, songwriter and chansonnier (born 1820).
- 16 August â Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology (born 1825).
- 17 October â Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, general and politician, first President of the Third Republic (born 1808).
- 18 October â Charles Gounod, composer (born 1818).
- 4 November â Pierre Tirard, politician (born 1827).
- 8 November â Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1815).
- 17 November â Hippolyte Destailleur, architect (born 1822).
Full date unknown
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