1894 in France

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Events from the year 1894 in France.

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4 January – Franco-Russian Alliance: A military alliance is established between France and the Russian Empire, pledged to remain so as long as the Triple Alliance (1882) exists.
15 February (04:51 GMT) – French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Observatory, London, England with a bomb.
22 June – Dahomey becomes a French colony.
23 June – International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
24 June – Assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France.^[1]
15 August – Sante Geronimo Caserio is executed for the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot.^[2]
15 October – Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying: Dreyfus affair begins.^[3]
5 November – Crédit Agricole established.
7 November – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France.
19 December – Trial and conviction of Alfred Dreyfus begins at the Cherche-Midi prison and lasts four days.
22 December – Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason.
31 December – Dreyfus' appeal to the military court of revision — a formality — is rejected.
Venus of Brassempouy is discovered.
Émile Delahaye produces the first Delahaye automobile in Tours.^[4]

12 January – Georges Carpentier, boxer (died 1975)
18 January – Romain Bellenger, cyclist (died 1981)
6 February – André Marchal, organist and organ teacher (died 1980)
14 March – Marie-Simone Capony, teacher, fifth-oldest person in the world (died 2007)
26 March – Albert Achard, World War I flying ace (died 1972)
9 April – Jean Gounot, gymnast and Olympic medallist (died 1978)
23 April – Georges Renavent, actor (died 1969)
10 May – Paul Dujardin, water polo player and Olympic medallist (died 1959)
27 May – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, writer (died 1961)
2 June – Jean Gachet, boxer and Olympic medallist (died 1968)
13 June – Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer and painter (died 1986)

25 July – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died 1977)
19 August – André Lefèbvre, automobile engineer (died 1963)
27 August – André Lurçat, architect (died 1970)
3 September
- Marie Dubas, music-hall singer and comedian (died 1972)
- André Hébuterne, painter (died 1992)
8 September – Andrée Vaurabourg, pianist and teacher (died 1980)
14 September – Pierre-Marie Théas, Bishop (died 1977)
15 September – Jean Renoir, film director (died 1979)

29 January – Armand Gautier, painter and lithographer (born 1825)
3 February – Edmond Frémy, chemist (born 1814)
6 February – Maria Deraismes, author and pioneer for women's rights (born 1828)
9 February – Maxime Du Camp, writer and photographer (born 1822)
14 February – Jacques-Léonard Maillet, sculptor (born 1823)
20 May – Philippe Édouard Foucaux, Tibetologist (born 1811)
25 June – Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France (assassinated) (born 1837)
1 July – Jean-Joseph Carriès, sculptor, ceramist, and miniaturist (born 1855)
2 September – Pauline Duvernay, dancer (born 1813)
8 November – Louis Figuier, scientist and writer (born 1819)
7 December – Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of the Suez Canal (born 1805)

^ Lacassagne, Alexandre (1843–1924) Auteur du texte; Poncet, A. Auteur du texte (10 April 1894). "L'assassinat du président Carnot / par A. Lacassagne,..." A. Storck. Retrieved 10 April 2018 – via gallica.bnf.fr.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Jean-Marie Le Pen: Nie zawaham się zabić". Gazeta Wyborcza. 7 May 2017.
^ "France - The Dreyfus Affair | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
^ Hull, Peter. "Delahaye: Famous on Road and Race Track", in Ward, Ian, executive editor. World of Automobiles (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 5, p.521.