1864 in France
# 1864 in France

Events from the year 1864 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Napoleon III

## Events

* 10 April - Second French intervention in Mexico: Treaty of Miramar.
* 4 May - Société Générale bank established in Paris.
* 14 May - The Orgueil meteorite falls to earth.
* 19 June - American Civil War: Battle of Cherbourg - Confederate States Navy CSS Alabama is sunk in a single-ship action with USS Kearsarge in la Manche off the coast of Cherbourg Harbour.
* 5–6 September - Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An international naval fleet including three French ships defeats Japanese daimyō Mōri Takachika in the Shimonoseki Straits of Japan.

## Arts and literature

* April - Charles Baudelaire leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
* 26 May - Alexandre Dumas, fils marries Nadejda Naryschkine. His father, Alexandre Dumas, père, returns to Paris from Italy.
* 17 December - Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe La Belle Hélène receives its first performance at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris.
* Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre) is published.

## Births

* 24 January - Marguerite Durand, actress, journalist and suffragette (died 1936).
* 1 March - Étienne Destot, radiologist and anatomist (died 1918).
* 16 March - Lucien Cayeux, sedimentary petrographer (died 1944).
* 10 May - Léon Gaumont, inventor, engineer, film pioneer and industrialist (died 1946).
* 11 November - Maurice Leblanc, novelist and short story writer (died 1941).
* 16 November - Stéphane Javelle, astronomer (died 1917)
* 24 November - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (died 1901).
* 8 December - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (died 1943).
* 28 December - Henri de Régnier, poet (died 1936).

## Deaths

* 28 January - Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, engineer and physicist (born 1799).
* 1 February - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France, Petite-Fille de France (born 1819).
* 2 March - Jean Alaux, painter (born 1786).
* 4 March - John James Appleton, diplomat (born 1789)
* 21 March - Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, painter (born 1809).
* 27 March - Jean-Jacques Ampère, philologist (born 1800).
* 29 April - Charles Julien Brianchon, mathematician and chemist (born 1783).
* 22 May - Aimable Pélissier, Marshal of France (born 1794).
* 31 July - Louis Christophe François Hachette, publisher (born 1800).
* 7 August - Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, Roman Catholic Bishop and writer (born 1798).
* 1 September - Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin, social reformer (born 1796).
* Full date unknown - Joseph Déjacque, anarcho-communist poet and writer (born 1821).
