Events from the year 1861 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Napoleon III
Events News of Henri Mouhot's discovery of Angkor Wat is published.
Births 1 January – Jacques Émile Blanche, painter (died 1942) 15 February – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (died 1938) 21 February – Pierre de Bréville, composer (died 1949) 30 October – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (died 1929) 2 November – Maurice Blondel, philosopher (died 1949) 8 December Aristide Maillol, sculptor (died 1944) Georges Méliès, filmmaker (died 1938) 16 December – Antonio de La Gandara, painter and draughtsman (died 1917)
Deaths 5 February – Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (born 1810) 10 April – Édouard Ménétries, entomologist (born 1802) 14 July – Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (born 1783) 24 August – Pierre Berthier, geologist and mining engineer (born 1782) 22 September – Rose Chéri, actress (born 1824) 10 November – Henri Mouhot, naturalist and explorer (born 1826) 10 November – Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (born 1805) 15 November – David Carcassonne, physician (born 1789) 20 November – Pierre Frédéric Sarrus, mathematician (born 1798) 21 November – Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist (born 1802) 25 November – Ferdinand Eckstein, philosopher and playwright (born 1790 in Denmark)
Full date unknown Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer, violinist and conductor (born 1789) Marie-Alfred de Suin, French vice-admiral and commander (born 1796)
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