Events from the year 1880 in France.
Incumbents President: Jules Grévy President of the Council of Ministers: Charles de Freycinet (until 23 September), Jules Ferry (starting 23 September)
Events 29 June – France annexes Tahiti. Musée Carnavalet is opened to the public as a museum of Paris history. Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
Literature
Pierre Loti - Le Mariage de Loti Émile Zola L'Inondation Nana Jules Verne - La Maison à vapeur
Music
Jules Massenet - La Vierge Jacques Offenbach - Belle Lurette
Births 14 January – Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Cardinal (died 1965) 5 February – Gabriel Voisin, aviation pioneer (died 1973) 20 February – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (died 1923) 21 February – Pierre Chaumié, politician (died 1966) 17 April – Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (died 1967) 25 May – Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (died 1967) 26 August – Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (died 1918) 12 October – Marcel-Bruno Gensoul, admiral (d. 1973)Gensoul, Marcel-Bruno 8 December – Clément-Emile Roques, Cardinal (died 1964)
Full date unknown Charles Catteau, industrial designer (died 1966) Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, composer and conductor (died 1965)
Deaths 4 January – Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (born 1801) 17 January – Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (born 1819) 31 January – Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1806) 8 May – Gustave Flaubert, novelist (born 1821) 24 June – Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (born 1822) 9 July – Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (born 1824) 5 October - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (born 1819) 22 October - Alphonse Pénaud, aeronautical pioneer (born 1850) 10 November – Sabin Berthelot, naturalist and ethnologist (born 1794) 20 November – Léon Cogniet, painter (born 1794) 24 November – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
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