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List of events
Events from the year 1868 in France .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
The first documented bicycle race is generally held to be a 1,200 m race at the Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris.
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Births
January to June
17 January -
Louis Couturat ,
logician ,
mathematician ,
philosopher , and
linguist (died
1914 )
27 January -
Jenny Sacerdote , under birth name Jeanne Adèle Bernard, famous Parisian dressmaker (died
1962 )
3 March -
Émile Chartier , philosopher, journalist and
pacifist (died
1951 )
1 April -
Edmond Rostand , poet and playwright (died
1918 )
28 April -
Émile Bernard , painter (died
1941 )
6 May -
Gaston Leroux ,
journalist ,
detective and novelist (died
1927 )
18 June -
Georges Lacombe , sculptor and painter (died
1916 )
July to December
27 July -
Eugène Apert ,
pediatrician (died
1940 )
28 July -
André Spire , poet, writer, and
Zionist activist (died
1966 )
6 August -
Paul Claudel , poet,
dramatist and
diplomat (died
1955 )
11 August -
Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen , historian of philosophy and pacifist (died
1967 )
24 October -
Alexandra David-Néel , explorer (died
1969 )
19 November -
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié , radio pioneer and army general (died
1932 )
25 December -
Eugenie Besserer , actress (died
1934 )
Deaths
13 January -
Arthur-Marie Le Hir , Biblical scholar and Orientalist (born
1811 )
22 January -
Étienne Serres , physician and
embryologist (born
1786 )
8 February -
Jacques Camou , general (born
1792 )
11 February -
Léon Foucault ,
physicist (born
1819 )
22 April -
Jean-François Jarjavay ,
anatomist and
surgeon (born
1815 )
24 April -
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier ,
Roman Catholic
nun (born
1796 )
6 May -
Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin , jurist and political pamphleteer (born
1788 )
14 June -
Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet ,
physicist (born
1791 )
22 August -
Jean-François Barrière , historian (born
1786 )
28 August -
Antoine Clot ,
physician (born
1793 )
24 December -
Adolphe d'Archiac ,
geologist and
paleontologist (born
1802 )
December -
Pierre Carmouche , playwright (born
1797 )
References
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