1898 in France

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← 1897 1896 1895 1894 1893 1898 in France → 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1898 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1898 in France.

Incumbents

• Felix Faure^[1]
• President of the Council of Ministers:
  • until 28 June: Jules Méline
  • 28 June-31 October: Henri Brisson
  • starting 31 October: Charles Dupuy^[2]

Events

• 13 January –
  anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus
  .
• 7 February – Zola is brought to trial for criminal libel for publishing J'accuse.
• 23 February – Zola is imprisoned for J'accuse. Following dismissal of his appeal he flees to London (arriving on 19 July) to escape further punishment.
• March – Canon de 75 modèle 1897 adopted as the standard French Army field artillery piece.
• 8 May – Legislative election held.
• 22 May – Legislative election held.
• 27 May – The territory of
  Guangzhouwan (Kwang-Chou-Wan or Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan) is leased by China to France, according to the Treaty of 12 April 1892, forming part of French Indochina
  .
• September – Fashoda Incident between Britain and France in Eastern Africa.
• 10 October – French military mission leaves for Chad.
• November –
  Voulet-Chanoine Mission, a military mission from Senegal to Chad
  .
• 10 December – The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish–American War is signed in Paris.
• 18 December – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first official land speed record in an automobile, averaging 63.15 km/h (39.24 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) at Achères, Yvelines.
• 26 December –
  Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium
  .
• Dr Louis Perrier buys the spring at Vergèze and operates a commercial spa there, also bottling the water for sale.

Arts and literature

• Henri Matisse paints Le Mur Rose

Births

January to March

• 27 January – Robert Levasseur, rugby union player (died 1974)
• 8 February – Jean Charlot, painter and illustrator (died 1979)
• 11 February –
  Henri de la Falaise, translator, film director and film producer (died 1972
  )
• 18 February – Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (died 1977)
• 4 March –
  philologist (died 1986
  )
• 8 March – Georges Gimel, painter (died 1962)

April to June

• 6 April – Jeanne Hébuterne, artist and subject for Amedeo Modigliani (died 1920)
• 12 April - Lily Pons, French-American operatic soprano (died 1976 in the United States)
• 5 May – Lise Deharme, née Anne-Marie Hirtz, writer (died 1979)
• 15 May – Arletty, singer and actress (died 1992)^[3]
• 16 May – Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor (died 1964)
• 4 June –
  French resistance during World War II (died 1971
  )
• 15 June – André Debry, one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I (died 2005)
• 29 June – Yvonne Lefébure, pianist (died 1986)

July to September

• 5 July
  • entomologist (died 1991
    )
  • André Chilo, rugby union player (died 1982)
  • Robert Lacoste, politician (died 1989)
• 10 July –
  neurologist (died 1987
  )
• 19 July – Étienne Decroux, actor and mime (died 1991)
• 31 July – Henri Navarre, General (died 1983)
• 13 August – Jean Borotra, tennis player (died 1994)
• 16 August – Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General (died 2000)
• 13 September – Roger Désormière, conductor (died 1963)
• 15 September – Philippe Hériat, novelist, playwright and actor (died 1971)
• 16 September – Louis Jacquinot, lawyer and politician (died 1993)
• 30 September – Renée Adorée, actress (died 1933)^[4]

October to December

• 10 October
  • Lilly Daché, milliner and fashion designer (died 1989)
  • Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician (died 1970
    )
  • Georges Malkine, painter (died 1970)
• 14 October – Maurice Martenot, cellist and inventor (died 1980)
• 25 October – René-Yves Creston, artist, designer and ethnographer (died 1964)
• 27 October – Élisabeth d'Ayen, tennis player (died 1969)
• 31 October
  • Édouard Depreux, journalist, essayist and politician (died 1981)
  • Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (died 1990)
• 11 November –
  filmmaker (died 1981
  )
• 17 November – Maurice Journeau, composer (died 1999)
• 5 December –
  literary critic (died 1994
  )

• Marcel Boucher, jewellery designer (died 1965)
• Édouard Joly, aircraft designer (died 1982)

Deaths

• 18 April – Gustave Moreau, painter (born 1826)
• 21 April – Théodore Gouvy, composer (born 1819)
• 7 July – Louis Buffet, statesman (born 1818)
• 3 August – Charles Garnier, architect (born 1825)
• 8 August – Eugène Boudin, painter (born 1824)
• 9 September – Stéphane Mallarmé, poet and critic (born 1842)
• 25 September –
  Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, anthropologist (born 1821
  )
• 16 October –
  Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painter (born 1819
  )
• 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (born 1824)
• 17 November – Auguste-François Maunoury, Hellenist and exegete (born 1811)

Full date unknown

• philologist (born 1821
  )

• List of French films before 1910

References