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List of events
Events from the year 1857 in
France .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
18 April -
The Spirits' Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), one of The Five Fundamental Works of
Spiritism , is published by the French educator
Allan Kardec .
The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal in original French), an immensely influential collection of Charles Baudelaire's first poems, is published.
Births
4 January -
Émile Cohl , caricaturist, cartoonist and animator (died
1938 )
18 January -
Eugène Gley ,
physiologist and
endocrinologist (died
1930 )
12 February -
Eugène Atget , photographer (died
1927 )
26 February -
Émile Coué , psychologist and pharmacist (died
1926 )
3 March -
Alfred Bruneau , composer (died
1934 )
22 March -
Paul Doumer ,
President of France (assassinated
1932 )
30 March -
Léon Charles Thévenin , telegraph engineer (died
1926 )
1 June -
Le Pétomane (Joseph Pujol),
flatulist (died
1945 )
29 June -
Jean-François Klobb , colonial officer (died
1899 )
10 August -
Georges Aaron Bénédite , Egyptologist (died
1926 )
Deaths
22 February -
Joseph Crétin , first
Roman Catholic
Bishop of
Saint Paul, Minnesota (born
1799 )
2 May -
Alfred de Musset , dramatist, poet and novelist (born
1810 )
11 May -
Eugène François Vidocq , criminal, later first director of
Sûreté Nationale (born
1775 )
17 May -
Adolphe Dureau de la Malle , geographer, naturalist, historian and artist (born
1777 )
23 May -
Augustin Louis Cauchy , mathematician (born
1789 )
30 June -
Alcide d'Orbigny , naturalist (born
1802 )
29 July -
Charles Lucien Bonaparte , naturalist and ornithologist (born
1803 )
3 August -
Eugène Sue , novelist (born
1804 )
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5 September -
Auguste Comte , philosopher (born
1798 )
28 October -
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac , General (born
1802 )
23 December -
Achille Devéria ,
painter and
lithographer (born
1800 )
References
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