1860 in France

none 1860 Events from the year 1860 in France. Incumbents Monarch – Napoleon III Events 1 January - Paris administratively annexes neighbouring communes. 23 January - Cobden-Chevalier Treaty Free Trade treaty is signed between the United Kingdom and France. 9 April - Typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings "Au clair de la lune" into his phonautograph, producing the world's earliest known sound recording of a song. However, it would not be converted back into audible sound until 2008. 18 October - At the end of the Second Opium War, British and French troops enter the Forbidden City in Beijing. 24 October - Convention of Peking signed by Chinese with Britain and France. Births 11 February - Rachilde, author (died 1953) 25 June - Gustave Charpentier, composer (died 1956) 16 August - Jules Laforgue, poet (died 1887) 20 August - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France (died 1934) 26 November – Gabrielle Petit, feminist activist, anticlerical, libertarian socialist, and newspaper editor (died 1952) Deaths 29 January - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1789)Commire Anne Klezmer Deborah Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia 2 2001 Yorkin Publications, Gale Group Waterford 978-0-78764-068-2 327 14 March - Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor (born 1812) 31 March - Évariste Régis Huc, Catholic priest and traveller (born 1813) 28 May – Rosine de Chabaud-Latour, French religious thinker and translator (born 1794)Chronique Le Chrétien évangélique 3 1860 280 FR 24 June - Jérôme Bonaparte, youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia (born 1784) 22 August - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803) 3 December - Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher, geologist (born 1817) 17 December - Désirée Clary, wife of King Charles XIV of Sweden and a one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1777)David Nicholls Napoleon: A Biographical Companion Santa Barbara ABC-Clio 1999 978-0-87436-957-1 Full date unknown Carron du Villards, ophthalmologist (born 1801) References 1860 France France Category:1860s in France Category:Years of the 19th century in France