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Events from the year1894 inFrance.

• President:Marie François Sadi Carnot (until 26 June),Jean Casimir-Perier (starting 26 June)
• President of the Council of Ministers:Jean Casimir-Perier (until 30 May),Charles Dupuy (starting 30 May)

• 4 January –Franco-Russian Alliance: A military alliance is established between France and theRussian Empire, pledged to remain so as long as theTriple Alliance (1882) exists.
• 15 February (04:51GMT) – French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy theRoyal Observatory,London,England with a bomb.
• 22 June –Dahomey becomes a French colony.
• 23 June –International Olympic Committee is founded at theSorbonne,Paris, at the initiative of BaronPierre de Coubertin.
• 24 June – Assassination ofMarie François Sadi Carnot,President of France.^[1]
• 15 August –Sante Geronimo Caserio is executed for the assassination ofMarie François Sadi Carnot.^[2]
• 15 October –Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying:Dreyfus affair begins.^[3]
• 5 November –Crédit Agricole established.
• 7 November – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and olderGrand Orient de France.
• 19 December –Trial and conviction of Alfred Dreyfus begins at theCherche-Midi prison and lasts four days.
• 22 December –Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason.
• 31 December – Dreyfus' appeal to the military court of revision — a formality — is rejected.
• Venus of Brassempouy is discovered.
• Émile Delahaye produces the firstDelahaye automobile inTours.^[4]
• Paul Cézanne paintsRideau, Cruchon et Compotier.

• Camille Flammarion -Omega: The Last Days of the World
• Anatole France -Le Lys rouge
• Jules Renard -Poil de carotte
• Jules Verne -Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer

• Claude Debussy
  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  • Proses lyriques
• Gabriel Fauré
  • Hymne à Apollon
  • La Bonne Chanson
  • Nocturne No. 6
  • 2 Motets, Op. 65
• Vincent d'Indy - Prélude et Petit Canon, Op. 38
• Jules Massenet
  • Thaïs
  • La Navarraise
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 99
  • Thème varié

• 12 January –Georges Carpentier, boxer (died1975)
• 18 January –Romain Bellenger, cyclist (died1981)
• 6 February –André Marchal,organist and organ teacher (died1980)
• 14 March –Marie-Simone Capony, teacher,fifth-oldest person in the world (died2007)
• 26 March –Albert Achard,World War Iflying ace (died1972)
• 9 April –Jean Gounot,gymnast and Olympic medallist (died1978)
• 23 April –Georges Renavent, actor (died1969)
• 10 May –Paul Dujardin,water polo player and Olympic medallist (died1959)
• 27 May –Louis-Ferdinand Céline, writer (died1961)
• 2 June –Jean Gachet, boxer and Olympic medallist (died1968)
• 13 June –Jacques Henri Lartigue,photographer andpainter (died1986)

• 25 July –Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died1977)
• 19 August –André Lefèbvre,automobileengineer (died1963)
• 27 August –André Lurçat, architect (died1970)
• 3 September
  • Marie Dubas, music-hall singer and comedian (died1972)
  • André Hébuterne, painter (died1992)
• 8 September –Andrée Vaurabourg, pianist and teacher (died1980)
• 14 September –Pierre-Marie Théas, Bishop (died1977)
• 15 September –Jean Renoir, film director (died1979)

• 17 October –Félix Amiot,aircraft constructor (died1974)
• 25 October –Claude Cahun, photographer and writer (died1954)
• 30 October –Jean Rostand,biologist andphilosopher (died1977)
• 4 November –Gabriel Auphan, Admiral (died1982)
• 5 November –René Laforgue, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died1962)
• 7 December –Louis Béguet,rugby union player (died1983)
• 19 December –Paul Baudouin, banker, politician and Minister (died1964)
• 25 December –Maurice Floquet,France's oldest man on record (died2006)

• Marcel LaFosse, classical trumpeter (died1969)
• Georges Miquelle, cellist (died1977)

• 29 January –Armand Gautier,painter andlithographer (born1825)
• 3 February –Edmond Frémy,chemist (born1814)
• 6 February –Maria Deraismes, author and pioneer forwomen's rights (born1828)
• 9 February –Maxime Du Camp,writer andphotographer (born1822)
• 14 February –Jacques-Léonard Maillet, sculptor (born1823)
• 20 May –Philippe Édouard Foucaux, Tibetologist (born1811)
• 25 June –Marie François Sadi Carnot,President of France (assassinated) (born1837)
• 1 July –Jean-Joseph Carriès, sculptor,ceramist, andminiaturist (born1855)
• 2 September –Pauline Duvernay, dancer (born1813)
• 8 November –Louis Figuier, scientist and writer (born1819)
• 7 December –Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of theSuez Canal (born1805)

• Jacques Claude Demogeot,man of letters (born1808)

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