1873 in France
Events from the year 1873 in France .
Incumbents
Events
16 September – German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War .
27 October - Henry, Count of Chambord , refuses to be crowned 'King Henry V of France' until France abandons its tricolour and returns to the old Bourbon flag.
21 December – Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.
Births
2 January – Thérèse de Lisieux , Roman Catholic Carmelite nun , canonised as a saint (died 1897 )
28 January – Colette , writer (died 1954 )
2 February – Maurice Tourneur , film director and screenwriter (died 1961 )
19 February – Louis Feuillade , film director (died 1925 )
17 May – Henri Barbusse , novelist, journalist and communist (died 1935 )
28 June – Alexis Carrel , surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1944 )
1 July – Alice Guy-Blaché , pioneer filmmaker, first female film director (died 1968 in the United States )[ 1]
4 August –
14 August
8 September – Alfred Jarry , playwright and novelist (died 1907 )
25 November – Pierre Lacau , Egyptologist and philologist (died 1963 )
Deaths
10 January – Napoleon III of France , first President of the French Republic and only emperor of the Second French Empire (born 1808 )
23 January – Louis Gustave Ricard , painter (born 1823 )
1 April – Marc Girardin , politician and man of letters (born 1801 )
16 April – Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny , poet (born 1839 )
4 May – Charles Rigault de Genouilly , Admiral (born 1807 )
16 June – Eugène Flachat , civil engineer (born 1802 )
18 July – Philarète Chasles , critic and man of letters (born 1798 )
8 August – Antoine Chintreuil , painter (born 1814 )
7 September – Jules Verreaux , botanist and ornithologist (born 1807 )
21 September – Auguste Nélaton , physician and surgeon (born 1807 )
23 September – Jean Chacornac , astronomer (born 1823 )
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