1877 in France

Events from the year 1877 in France.

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Incumbents

• President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta
• President of the Council of Ministers:
  • until 17 May: Jules Simon
  • 17 May-23 November: Albert, 4th duc de Broglie
  • 23 November-13 December: Gaëtan de Rochebouët
  • starting 13 December: Jules Armand Dufaure

Events

• 16 May – Constitutional crisis which ultimately seals the defeat of the royalist movement.
• 14 October – Legislative election held.
• 28 October – Legislative election held.
• 'Yablochkov candles' (a form of arc lamp) are first used commercially in the 'Marengo hall' of the department store Galeries du Louvre in Paris.^[1]

Births

January to March

• 29 January – Georges Catroux, military officer and diplomat (died 1969)
• 17 February – André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line (died 1932)
• 19 February – Louis Aubert, composer (died 1968)
• 21 February – Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Catholic theologian (died 1964)
• 28 February – André Simon, wine merchant, gourmet and writer (died 1970)
• 21 March – Maurice Farman, motor racing driver, aviator, aircraft manufacturer and designer (died 1964)
• 29 March – Jules Boucherit, violinist and teacher (died 1962)

April to June

• 15 April – Jules Basdevant, law professor (died 1968)
• 26 May – Jean Schlumberger, writer and journalist (died 1968)
• 31 May – Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, née Renaudot, astronomer (died 1962)
• 14 June – Jane Bathori, opera singer (died 1970)

July to December

• 4 July – Jacques Bacot, explorer and Tibetologist (died 1965)
• 5 July – Georges Saillard, actor (died 1967)
• 6 July – Arnaud Massy, golfer (died 1950)
• 8 July – René Navarre, actor (died 1968)
• 19 July – Cécile Brunschvicg, politician (died 1946)
• 18 November – Jules Isaac, historian (died 1963)
• 13 December – Edmond Locard, pioneer in forensic science (died 1966)

Deaths

• 31 March – Antoine Augustin Cournot, economist, philosopher and mathematician (born 1801)
• 9 April – Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, dermatologist (born 1795)
• 26 April – Louise Bertin, composer (born 1805)^[2]
• 28 June – Jacques-Maurice De Saint Palais, Archbishop of Indianapolis (born 1811)
• 3 September – Adolphe Thiers, politician, historian and Prime Minister of France (born 1797)
• 23 September – Urbain Le Verrier, mathematician (born 1811)
• 16 October – Théodore Barrière, dramatist (born 1823)
• 26 December
  • Aristide Boucicaut, creator of Le Bon Marché department stores (born 1810)
  • Jean-Jacques Meyer, steam locomotive engineer (born 1805)
• 31 December – Gustave Courbet, painter (born 1819)