1868 in France

none 1868 Events from the year 1868 in France. Incumbents Monarch – Napoleon III Events March - Geologist Louis Lartet discovers the first identified skeletons of Cro-Magnon, the first anatomically modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens), at Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter at Les Eyzies in the Dordogne. 18 August - The element later named as helium is first detected in the spectrum of the Sun's chromosphere by astronomer Jules Janssen during a total eclipse in Guntur, India, but assumed to be sodiumFrench astronomers in India during the 17th –19th centuries Journal of the British Astronomical Association 101 2 95–100 1991JBAA..101...95K Kochhar R. K. 1991 (on 20 October English astronomer Norman Lockyer identifies it). October - The French military mission to Japan (1867–68) is ordered to leave by Imperial decree. Jules-Emile Planchon and colleagues propose Phylloxera as the cause of the Great French Wine Blight.http://www.wampumkeeper.com/wineblight.html The Great French Wine Blight Wine Tidings 96 2011-08-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20110717235415/http://www.wampumkeeper.com/wineblight.html 17 July 2011 usurped July–August 1986 Jean-Martin Charcot describes and names multiple sclerosis.http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/19.html Jean-Martin Charcot Whonamedit? Enerson Ole Daniel 2011-04-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20110514000108/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/19.html 14 May 2011 liveCharcot, J.-M. Histologie de la sclerose en plaques Gazette des Hopitaux Paris 1868 41 554–55 Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron patents methods of color photography.Coe Brian Colour Photography: the first hundred years 1840-1940 1978 London Ash & Grant 0-904069-24-9 Ernest and Auguste Bollée first patent the Éolienne Bollée wind turbine.No 79985. Arts and literature January - Émile Zola defends his first major novel, Thérèse Raquin (1867), against charges of pornography and corruption of morals.Louis Ulbach Ferragus La littérature putride Le Figaro Paris 1868-01-23 Establishment of the Académie Julian, a major art school in Paris that admits women, by Rodolphe Julian. Aristide Cavaillé-Coll's organ at Notre-Dame de Paris is dedicated. Sport The first documented bicycle race is generally held to be a 1,200 m race at the Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris.Bicycle Racing in France : The Origins http://www.indiansinparis.com/blog/roots/237-bicycle-races-in-france-a-short-history May 6, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20140509001426/http://www.indiansinparis.com/blog/roots/237-bicycle-races-in-france-a-short-history 2014-05-09 dead Births January to June 17 January - Louis Couturat, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist (died 1914) 27 January - Jenny Sacerdote, under birth name Jeanne Adèle Bernard, famous Parisian dressmaker (died 1962) 3 March - Émile Chartier, philosopher, journalist and pacifist (died 1951) 1 April - Edmond Rostand, poet and playwright (died 1918) 28 April - Émile Bernard, painter (died 1941) 6 May - Gaston Leroux, journalist, detective and novelist (died 1927) 18 June - Georges Lacombe, sculptor and painter (died 1916) July to December 27 July - Eugène Apert, pediatrician (died 1940) 28 July - André Spire, poet, writer, and Zionist activist (died 1966) 6 August - Paul Claudel, poet, dramatist and diplomat (died 1955) 11 August - Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (died 1967) 24 October - Alexandra David-Néel, explorer (died 1969) 19 November - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (died 1932) 25 December - Eugenie Besserer, actress (died 1934) Deaths 13 January - Arthur-Marie Le Hir, Biblical scholar and Orientalist (born 1811) 22 January - Étienne Serres, physician and embryologist (born 1786) 8 February - Jacques Camou, general (born 1792) 11 February - Léon Foucault, physicist (born 1819) 22 April - Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (born 1815) 24 April - Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Roman Catholic nun (born 1796) 6 May - Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin, jurist and political pamphleteer (born 1788) 14 June - Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet, physicist (born 1791) 22 August - Jean-François Barrière, historian (born 1786) 28 August - Antoine Clot, physician (born 1793) 24 December - Adolphe d'Archiac, geologist and paleontologist (born 1802) December - Pierre Carmouche, playwright (born 1797) References 1868 France France Category:1860s in France Category:Years of the 19th century in France