1880 in France

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Events from the year 1880 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Jules Grévy[1]
• President of the Council of Ministers: Charles de Freycinet (until 23 September), Jules Ferry (starting 23 September)[2]

Events

• 29 June – France annexes Tahiti.[3]
• Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.[4]

Births

• 14 January – Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Cardinal (died 1965)[5]
• 5 February – Gabriel Voisin, aviation pioneer (died 1973)[6]
• 20 February – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (died 1923)[7]
• 21 February – Pierre Chaumié, politician (died 1966)[8]
• 17 April – Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (died 1967)[9]
• 25 May – Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (died 1967)[10]
• 26 August – Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (died 1918)[11]
• 8 December – Clément-Emile Roques, Cardinal (died 1964)[12]

Full date unknown

• Charles Catteau, industrial designer (died 1966)[13]
• Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, composer and conductor (died 1965)[14]

Deaths

• 4 January – Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (born 1801)[15]
• 17 January – Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (born 1819)[16]
• 31 January – Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1806)[17]
• 8 May – Gustave Flaubert, novelist (born 1821)[18]
• 24 June – Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (born 1822)[19]
• 9 July – Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (born 1824)[20]
• 5 October - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (born 1819)[21]
• 22 October - Alphonse Pénaud, aeronautical pioneer (born 1850)[22]
• 10 November – Sabin Berthelot, naturalist and ethnologist (born 1794)[23]
• 20 November – Léon Cogniet, painter (born 1794)[24]
• 24 November – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)[25]

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