1886 in France

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Events from the year 1886 in France.

Incumbents

15 May – Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.^[1]^[2]

28 January – Georges Painvin, cryptanalyst (died 1980)
5 March – Léon Mathot, actor and film director (died 1968)
7 March – Jacques Majorelle, painter (died 1962)^[3]
7 March – René Thomas, motor racing driver (died 1975)
28 March – Gustave Mesny, army general (died 1945)
29 March – Paul Amiot, actor (died 1979)
15 April – Amédée Ozenfant, cubist painter (died 1966)
19 April – Hermine David, painter (died 1970)
25 April – Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (died 2001)
29 April – Count Renaud de la Frégeolière, author and first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (died 1981)
3 May – Marcel Dupré, organist, pianist and composer (died 1971)
24 May – Paul Paray, conductor, organist and composer (died 1979)

16 July – Pierre Benoit, novelist (died 1962)
3 August – Henri Debain, actor (died 1983)
8 September – Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, painter and sculptor (died 1965)
15 September – Paul Lévy, mathematician (died 1971)
16 September – Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (died 1966)
30 September – Gaston Ramon, veterinarian and biologist (died 1963)
3 October – Alain-Fournier, author and soldier (died 1914)
4 October – Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister (died 1970)
6 November – André Marty, leading figure in the French Communist Party (died 1956)
15 November – René Guénon, orientalist and philosopher (died 1951)
30 December – Henri Chapron, automobile coachbuilder (died 1978)

23 January – Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (born 1815)
27 April – Eugène Isabey, painter, draftsman, and printmaker (born 1803)
17 March – Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (born 1814)
23 May – Pierre Édouard Frère, painter (born 1819)
12 July – Ferdinand Berthier, deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser (born 1803)
14 August – Edmond Laguerre, mathematician (born 1834)
8 September – Maurice Jean Auguste Girard, entomologist (born 1822)
16 September – Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (born 1819)
26 September – Hippolyte Castille, writer (born 1820)
14 November – Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, geologist and mineralogist (born 1820)

^ "The Portuguese presence in Ziguinchor". calenda.org. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
^ "France Portugal Treaty 1866". ardhi.unl.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
^ "Jacques Majorelle in Morocco". Jardin Majorelle. Archived from the original on March 3, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)