title: 1869 in France
text: # 1869 in France
  
  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)
  