Events from the year 1872 in France.
Incumbents President: Adolphe Thiers President of the Council of Ministers: Jules Armand Dufaure
Events 22 May - Georges Bizet's comic opera Djamileh is premièred at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. 13 November (07:35) (probable date) - Claude Monet begins painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant, the painting that will give a name to Impressionism) as viewed from his hotel room at Le Havre. 27 November - Meteor shower display over France. Louis Ducos du Hauron creates an early color photograph. Chargeurs established as a shipping company. S. T. Dupont begins manufacture of luxury leather goods.
Art
Gustave Courbet - Nature morte aux fruits Edgar Degas - Le Foyer de la danse à l'Opéra de la rue Le Peletier Gustave Doré - Le Christ quittant le prétoire Henri Fantin-Latour - Un coin de table Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pollice Verso Édouard Manet Berthe Morisot au bouquet de violettes Portrait de Clemenceau Claude Monet Impression, soleil levant Régates à Argenteuil La Seine à Rouen Printemps Berthe Morisot - Le Berceau Pierre-Auguste Renoir Parisiennes habillées en Algériennes Le Pont-Neuf Alfred Sisley Le Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne Le Canal Saint-Martin Pêcheurs étendant leurs filets Le Bac de l'île de la Loge, inondation La Grand-Rue à Argenteuil Rue de la Chaussée in Argenteuil The Seine at Argenteuil Villeneuve-la-Garenne Alfred Stevens - La parisienne japonaise James Tissot An Interesting Story Le Thé
Literature Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin de Tarascon Jules Verne Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours Émile Zola - La Curée
Music
Georges Bizet - L'Arlésienne Charles Gounod - Marche funèbre d'une marionnette Jules Massenet - Don César de Bazan Jacques Offenbach Le roi Carotte Fantasio Camille Saint-Saëns Gavotte, Op. 23 Romance, Op. 37
Births 16 January - Henri Büsser, composer and conductor (died 1973) 18 January - Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, noble from the House of Orléans (died 1931) 24 February - Gustave Sandras, artistic gymnast (died 1951) 26 March - Émile Armand, individualist anarchist (died 1962) 7 June - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (died 1932) 1 July - Louis Blériot, inventor, engineer and aviation pioneer (died 1936) 2 July - Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, psychiatrist (died 1934) 15 July - Jean Dargassies, racing cyclist (died 1965) 28 July - Albert Sarraut, politician, twice Prime Minister of France (died 1962) 22 September - Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, painter (died 1967) 17 October – Madeleine Rolland, translator and peace activist (died 1960) 30 November - Maurice de la Taille, priest and writer (died 1933) 12 December - Daniel Halévy, historian (died 1962)
Full date unknown Léon Bouly, inventor of the cinématographe (died 1932) François-Victor Équilbecq, author (died 1917) Colette Reynaud, feminist, socialist and pacifist journalist (died 1965)
Deaths
January to June 6 February - Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, author and theologian (born 1805) 31 March - Jules Guyot, physician and agronomist (born 1807) 5 April - Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier, astronomer (born 1812) 28 April - Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, photographer (born 1802) 20 June - Elie Frédéric Forey, Marshal of France (born 1804) 27 June - Michel Carré, librettist (born 1821)
July to December 5 July - Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers, surgeon (born 1808) 4 October - Jean-Jacques Bourassé, priest, archaeologist and historian (born 1813) 21 October - Jacques Babinet, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1794) 23 October - Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist, journalist, dramatist and literary critic (born 1811) 29 October - Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, chess master (born 1800) 6 December - Félix Archimède Pouchet, naturalist (born 1800) 10 December - Étienne Arnal, actor (born 1794) December - Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue, historian and biographer (born 1801)
Full date unknown Ximénès Doudan, journalist (born 1800)
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