1898 in France

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See also:	Other events of 1898 Timeline of French history

Events from the year 1898 in France.

Events

• 13 January – Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 7 February – Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
• 23 February – Zola is imprisoned after writing J'accuse which was a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
• 8 May – Legislative election held.
• 22 May – Legislative election held.
• September – Fashoda Incident between Britain and France in Eastern Africa.
• 10 October – French military mission left for Chad (see: Battle of Togbao).
• November – Voulet-Chanoine Mission, military mission from Senegal to Chad.
• 10 December – The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish–American War is signed in Paris.
• 26 December – Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium.

Arts and literature

First performance of Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

Births

January to March

• 27 January – Robert Levasseur, rugby union player (died 1974)
• 8 February – Jean Charlot, painter and illustrator (died 1979)
• 11 February – Henri de la Falaise, translator, film director and film producer (died 1972)
• 18 February – Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (died 1977)
• 4 March – Georges Dumézil, philologist (died 1986)
• 8 March – Georges Gimel, painter (died 1962)

April to June

• 6 April – Jeanne Hébuterne, artist and subject for Amedeo Modigliani (died 1920)
• 15 May – Arletty, singer and actress (died 1992)
• 16 May – Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor (died 1964)
• 4 June – Émilienne Moreau-Evrard, hero of World War I and in French resistance during World War II (died 1971)
• 15 June – André Debry, one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I (died 2005)
• 29 June – Yvonne Lefébure, pianist (died 1986)

July to September

• 5 July – André Badonnel, entomologist (died 1991)
• 5 July – André Chilo, rugby union player (died 1982)
• 5 July – Robert Lacoste, politician (died 1989)
• 10 July – Pierre Mollaret, neurologist (died 1987)
• 19 July – Étienne Decroux, actor and mime (died 1991)
• 31 July – Henri Navarre, General (died 1983)
• 13 August – Jean Borotra, tennis player (died 1994)
• 13 September – Roger Désormière, conductor (died 1963)
• 15 September – Philippe Hériat, novelist, playwright and actor (died 1971)
• 16 September – Louis Jacquinot, lawyer and politician (died 1993)
• 30 September – Renée Adorée, actress (died 1933)

October to December

• 10 October – Lilly Daché, milliner and fashion designer (died 1989)
• 10 October – Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician (died 1970)
• 14 October – Maurice Martenot, cellist and inventor (died 1980)
• 25 October – René-Yves Creston, artist, designer and ethnographer (died 1964)
• 27 October – Élisabeth d'Ayen, tennis player (died 1969)
• 31 October – Édouard Depreux, journalist, essayist and politician (died 1981)
• 11 November – René Clair, filmmaker (died 1981)
• 17 November – Maurice Journeau, composer (died 1999)
• 5 December – Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (died 1994)

Full date unknown

• Marcel Boucher, jewellery designer (died 1965)
• Lise Deharme, writer (died 1979)
• François Ducaud-Bourget, priest (died 1984)
• Édouard Joly, aircraft designer (died 1982)
• Georges Malkine, painter (died 1970)
• Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General (died 2000)
• Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (died 1990)

Deaths

• 18 April – Gustave Moreau, painter (born 1826)
• 21 April – Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer (born 1819)
• 7 July – Louis Buffet, statesman (born 1818)
• 3 August – Charles Garnier, architect (born 1825)
• 8 August – Eugène Boudin, painter (born 1824)
• 9 September – Stéphane Mallarmé, poet and critic (born 1842)
• 25 September – Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, anthropologist (born 1821)
• 16 October – Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painter (born 1819)
• 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (born 1824)
• 17 November – Auguste-François Maunoury, Hellenist and exegete (born 1811)

Full date unknown

• Jean-André Cuoq, philologist (born 1821)

References

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