1891 in France

Events from the year 1891 in France. == Incumbents == President: Marie François Sadi Carnot President of the Council of Ministers: Charles de Freycinet == Events == 1 May – Fusillade de Fourmies, nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies. 27 August – France and Russia conclude defensive alliance. Gustave Moreau becomes a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Henri Matisse begins his studies as an artist at École des Beaux-Arts == Literature == Maurice Barrès - Le Culte du moi Joris-Karl Huysmans - Là-bas Jules Verne - Mistress Branican Émile Zola - L'Argent == Music == Claude Debussy Ballade Danse Deux arabesques Rêverie Valse romantique Gabriel Fauré - 5 Mélodies, Op. 58 Charles Gounod - Saint Francois d'Assise Jules Massenet - Le Mage Camille Saint-Saëns - Africa == Births == === January to June === 2 January – Didier Daurat, aviation pioneer (died 1969) 14 January – Félix Goethals, cyclist (died 1962) 19 April – Françoise Rosay, actress (died 1974) 17 May – Roger Blaizot, General (died 1981) === July to September === 11 July Gabriel Benoist, writer (died 1964) Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, aviator (died 1944) 21 July – Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (died 1972) 1 August – Charles Ritz, hotelier and fly fisherman (died 1976) 6 August – Yvette Andréyor, actress (died 1962) 9 August – Joseph-Marie Martin, cardinal (died 1976) 15 August – Jean De Briac, actor (died 1970) 3 September – Marcel Grandjany, harpist and composer (died 1975) 10 September – Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (died 2001) 26 September – Charles Münch, conductor and violinist (died 1968) === October to December === 10 October – Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (died 1977) 17 November – Jean Del Val, actor (died 1975) 15 December – Martial Guéroult, philosopher and historian of philosophy (died 1976) 23 December – Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (died 1972) 26 December – Jean Galtier-Boissière, writer, polemist and journalist (died 1966) 30 December – Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1994) == Deaths == === January to June === 14 January – Aimé Millet, sculptor (born 1819) 16 January – Léo Delibes, composer (born 1836) 21 January – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor (born 1815) 15 March – Théodore de Banville, poet and writer (born 1823) 29 March – Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel, Bishop of Toronto (born 1802) 29 March – Georges-Pierre Seurat, painter (born 1859) 24 May – Joseph Roumanille, poet (born 1818) 17 June – Théophile Nicolas Noblot, politician (born 1824) === July to December === 7 July – Célestin Joseph Félix, Jesuit (born 1810) 20 August – Leopold Chasseriau, planter (born 1825) 29 August – Pierre Lallement, bicycle inventor (b. c. 1843) 5 September – Elie Delaunay, painter (born 1828) 30 September – Georges Ernest Boulanger, general and politician (born 1837) 3 October – Édouard Lucas, mathematician (born 1842) 10 November – Arthur Rimbaud, poet (born 1854) 26 November – Eugène Bouchut, physician (born 1818) 12 December – Charles Émile Freppel, Bishop and politician (born 1827) December – Émile Bayard, illustrator (born 1837) == References ==