Events from the year 1886 in France .
Incumbents
Events
15 May – Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.[ 1] [ 2]
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
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 )
July to December
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 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
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 )
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