Events from the year 1874 in France.
Incumbents President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta President of the Council of Ministers: Albert, duc de Broglie (until 22 May), Ernest Courtot de Cissey (starting 22 May)
Events 23 January – Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered. 15 March – France and the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina. 25 April – Louis Leroy reviews the First Impressionist Exhibition, held in Paris, and coins the term with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
Literature Alphonse Daudet - Fromont jeune et Risler aîné Gustave Flaubert - La Tentation de Saint Antoine Victor Hugo - Quatrevingt-treize Jules Verne - L'Île mystérieuse Émile Zola - La Conquête de Plassans
Music
Jacques Offenbach - Bagatelle / Madame l'archiduc
Births
January to June 21 January – René-Louis Baire, mathematician (died 1932) 19 February – Rose Gelbert, golfer (died 1956) 22 March – Jean Cau, rower. 3 May – François Coty, perfume manufacturer (died 1934) 14 May – Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (died 1939)
July to December 29 July – Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (died 1953) 4 September – Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise, great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French (died 1940) 4 October – Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (died 1950) 25 October – Henri Bénard, physicist (died 1939) 2 November – Georges Andrique, painter (died 1964) 14 November – André-Gaston Prételat, general (died 1969) 5 December – Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (died 1943) 6 December – Lucien Démanet, gymnast 24 December – Yves Le Febvre, writer and politician (died 1959)
Deaths 8 January – Abbé Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, writer, historian (born 1814) 9 February – Jules Michelet, historian (born 1798) 26 August – Julie-Victoire Daubié, journalist (born 1824) 12 September – François Guizot, Prime Minister (born 1787) 22 December – Louis Aubert-Roche, physician (born 1818)
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