Contents

• Incumbents
• Events
• Literature
• Music
• Births
• Full date unknown
• Deaths
• January to June
• July to December
• Full date unknown 2
• References

← 1874 1873 1872 1871 1870 1875 in France → 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1875 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1875 in France .

Incumbents

• President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta
• President of the Council of Ministers: Ernest Courtot de Cissey (until 10 March), Louis Buffet (starting 10 March)

Events

• 5 January – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated as the home of the Paris Opera
• 3 March – The first performance of Bizet's Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris, 3 months before the composer's death.
• 20 May – Convention du Mètre signed in Paris.
• Cize–Bolozon viaduct opens to rail traffic across the Ain.
• Gallium is discovered by Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. ^[1]
• The Flammarion publishing firm is founded in Paris.

Literature

• Jules Verne - Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon
• Émile Zola - La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret

Music

• Georges Bizet - Carmen
• Alexandre Luigini - Ballet égyptien
• Jules Massenet - Ève
• Jacques Offenbach
  • Geneviève de Brabant
  • Le voyage dans la lune
  • La créole
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Danse macabre
  • Piano Concerto No. 4
  • Piano Quartet in B-flat major

Births

• 17 February – Fanny Clar, journalist and writer (died 1944)
• 21 February – Jeanne Calment, supercentenarian and the oldest living person ever documented in history (died 1997)
• 7 March – Maurice Ravel, composer and pianist (died 1937)
• 27 March – Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, neurologist (died 1962)
• 4 April – Pierre Monteux, conductor (died 1964)
• 5 April – Mistinguett, singer (born 1956)
• 27 April – Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, physicist (died 1960)
• 28 June – Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (died 1941)
• 31 July – Jacques Villon, painter and printmaker (died 1963)
• 6 August – Marcel Labey, conductor and composer (died 1968)
• 27 September – Cléo de Mérode, dancer (died 1966)

Deaths

References