See also: 1873 in France, other events of 1874, 1875 in France.

Events from the year 1874 in France.

Events

Arts and literature

• 23 January - Camille Saint-Sa ns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered.
• 25 April - Louis Leroy reviews the first Impressionist exhibition, held in Paris, and coins the term with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.

Births

January to June

• 21 January - Ren -Louis Baire, mathematician (d.1932).
• 22 March - Jean Cau, rower.
• 3 May - Fran ois Coty, perfume manufacturer (d.1934).
• 14 May - Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (d.1939).

July to December

• 29 July - Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (d.1953).
• 4 September - Jean d'Orl ans, duc de Guise, great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (d.1940).
• 2 November - Georges Andrique, painter (d.1964).
• 14 November - Andr -Gaston Pr telat, General (d.1969).
• 6 December - Lucien D manet, gymnast.
• 24 December - Yves Le Febvre, writer and politician (d.1959).

Full date unknown

• Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (d.1950).
• Henri B nard, physicist (d.1939).
• Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (d.1943).

Deaths

• 8 January - Charles tienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist (b.1814).
• 13 January - Victor Baltard, architect (b.1805).
• 26 January - F lix douard Gu rin-M neville, entomologist (b.1799).
• 4 April - Charles Ernest Beul , archaeologist and politician (b.1826).
• 15 May - Auguste Carayon, Jesuit author and bibliographer (b.1813).
• 30 June - Blanche d'Antigny, singer and actress (b.1840).
• 4 September - Alfred de Bougy, poet and author (b.1814).
• 5 December - Hippolyte Fran ois Jaubert, politician and botanist (b.1798).
• 31 December - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, politician (b.1807).

Full date unknown

• Louis Aubert-Roche, physician (b.1810).
• Jean Cruveilhier, anatomist (b.1791).
• Jean Louis Marie Eug ne Durieu, photographer (b.1800).
• Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pont coulant, astronomer (b.1795).
• Brutus de Villeroi, submarine engineer (b.1794).

References

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