1856 in France

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Events from the year 1856 in France.

Incumbents

• Napoleon III

Events

• 30 March - Treaty of Paris is signed by Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom, settling the Crimean War.

Births

• 1 February -
  dermatologist (died 1928
  )
• 16 March -
  Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo (died 1879
  )
• 24 April -
  Chief of State of Vichy France (died 1951
  )
• 25 May -
  Louis Franchet d'Espérey, general during World War I (died 1942
  )
• 5 June - Gabrielle Réjane, actress (died 1920)
• 1 September -
  Archbishop of Paris (died 1929
  )
• 29 October -
  Jacques Curie, physicist (died 1941
  )

• carcinologist (died 1944
  )
• Thérèse Humbert, fraudster (died 1918)

Deaths

January to June

• 4 January -
  Pierre Jean David, sculptor (born 1788
  )
• 6 January - Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, musician and composer (born 1789)
• 29 February - Auguste Chapdelaine, Christian missionary to China (born 1814)
• March - Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux, actress (born 1810)
• 27 April - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (born 1806)
• 3 May - Adolphe Adam, composer and music critic (born 1803)
• 12 May - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (born 1786)
• 13 May - Jean Zuléma Amussat, surgeon (born 1796)
• 14 May - Théodore Guérin (Saint Theodora), missionary (born 1798)

July to December

• 8 October - Théodore Chassériau, painter (born 1819)
• 12 October - Jean Bachelot La Pylaie, botanist, explorer and archaeologist (born 1786)
• 4 November -
  Hippolyte Delaroche, painter (born 1797
  )
• 9 November -
  utopian socialist (born 1788
  )
• 25 December -
  Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignan (born 1800
  )

• Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, painter and miniaturist (born 1770)
• Charles de Steuben, painter (born 1788)

References