1895 in France explained

Events from the year 1895 in France.

Incumbents

Jean Casimir-Perier (until 15 January), Felix Faure (starting 16 January)

- - - - until 26 January: Charles Dupuy 26 January–1 November: Alexandre Ribot starting 1 November: Léon Bourgeois

5 January – The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris.
17 January – Félix Faure is elected President of French Republic after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier.
17 January – Dreyfus is moved into a military reformatory on the island of Ré.
21 February – Dreyfus is put on board ship to be exiled.
15 March – Dreyfus is landed on Devil's Island off French Guiana.
22 March – Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière make what is probably the first presentation of a projected celluloid film moving picture, the 46-second Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, to members of the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale in Paris.^[1]
27 August – Swami Vivekananda is invited by the Paris Congress to deliver a speech on Psychic Prana.
1 October – French troops capture Antananarivo, Madagascar.
22 October – Montparnasse derailment: A railway locomotive runs through the exterior wall of the Gare Montparnasse terminus in Paris.

1 January – Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris.^[2] Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
3 July – Painter Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
November – Painter Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
28 December – Auguste and Louis Lumière make what is probably the first commercial public screening of projected moving picture films to a paying audience, at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris.^[3]

11 June – The Paris–Bordeaux–Paris automobile trial is held.
24 September–31 October – The Automobile Club de France sponsors the longest race to date, a 1710km (1,060miles) event from Bordeaux to Agen and back. Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by a Panhard, a Panhard, and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.^[4]

29 January – Pierre Gaxotte, historian (died 1982)
11 February – Maurice Cottenet, soccer player (died 1972)
28 February – Marcel Pagnol, novelist, playwright and filmmaker (died 1974)
2 March – Marcel Carpentier, military officer (died 1977)
16 March – Ernest Labrousse, historian (died 1988)
20 March – Robert Benoist, motor racing driver and war hero (executed 1944)
30 March
- Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helps smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (died 1990)
- Jean Giono, author (died 1970)

5 April – Fernand Mourlot, printer and publisher (died 1988)
3 May – Gabriel Chevallier, novelist (died 1969)
4 May – René Mayer, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1972)
11 May – Jacques Brugnon, tennis player (died 1978)
9 June – Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter, film director and producer (died 1972)
12 June – Eugénie Brazier, cook (died 1977)

9 October – René Lasserre, rugby union player (died 1965)
3 November – Pierre Richard-Willm, actor (died 1983)
5 November – Walter Gieseking, pianist and composer (died 1956)^[5]
20 November
- Pierre Cot, politician (died 1977)
- Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (died 1988)
25 November – Adrienne Bolland, test pilot and first woman to fly over the Andes (died 1975)
27 November – Pierre-Paul Grassé, zoologist (died 1985)
29 November – Edgard de Larminat, General (died 1962)
9 December – Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (died 1967)
14 December – Paul Éluard, poet (died 1952)^[6]

10 January – Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (born 1849)
28 January – François Certain de Canrobert, Marshal of France (born 1809)
29 January – Charles Frédéric Girard, biologist (born 1822)
16 February – André Garin, missionary and parish priest (born 1822)
19 February – Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (born 1819)
11 March – Louis-Florentin Calmeil, psychiatrist and medical historian (born 1798)
22 April – Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist, introduced the gypsy moth into North America (born 1827)
11 May – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, professor of apologetics (born 1834)
22 May – Claude Marie Dubuis, second Roman Catholic bishop of Texas (born 1817)
28 May – Alexandre Martin, socialist statesman (born 1815)

Book: Chardère. B.. Borgé. G.. Borgé. M.. Les Lumière. 1985. Bibliothèque des Arts. Paris. 2-85047-068-6. French. 71.
Web site: An Introduction to the Work of Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau. Ian. Johnston. Malaspina University-College. Nanaimo. 2012-05-17. March 2004. 2016-04-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20160416041716/http://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/praguepage/muchalecture.htm. dead.
Web site: Présentation Du Cinématographe Lumière. 2023-03-28. Encyclopædia Universalis.
Web site: The Story of the Grand Prix. 2019-04-17.
Web site: Walter Gieseking German pianist. Encyclopedia Britannica. 2019-03-27. en.
Web site: Paul Eluard 1895-1952. Tate. 2019-03-27.