Events from the year 1869 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Napoleon III
Events 2 May - Folies Bergère opens in Paris as the Folies Trévise. 23 May - Legislative election held. 6 June - Legislative election held to elect the fourth legislature of the French Second Empire. 15 July - Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès files a patent for margarine.
Births 7 March - Paul Émile Chabas, painter (died 1937) 8 April - Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal (died 1936) 12 April - Henri Désiré Landru, serial killer (executed 1922) 23 April - Louise Compain, feminist author (died 1941) 29 July - Paul Aymé, tennis player (died 1962) 22 November - André Gide, author and winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 (died 1951) 31 December - Henri Matisse, artist (died 1954)
Deaths 8 January - Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, geologist and metallurgist (born 1801) 8 March - Hector Berlioz, composer (born 1803) 31 March - Allan Kardec, founder of Spiritism (born 1804) 8 June - Felix-Joseph Barbelin, Jesuit influential in the development of the Catholic community in Philadelphia (born 1808) 6 September - Jean-Pierre Dantan, sculptor (born 1800) 7 September - Auguste Simon Paris, notary and entomologist (born 1794) 13 October - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, literary critic (born 1804) 15 October - Charles Nicholas Aubé, physician and entomologist (born 1802) 31 December - Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist (born 1817)
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