1893 in France

Events from the year 1893 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Marie François Sadi Carnot
 * President of the Council of Ministers:
 * until 4 April: Alexandre Ribot
 * 4 April-3 December: Charles Dupuy
 * starting 3 December: Jean Casimir-Perier

Events

 * 10 March – Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
 * 16–17 August – Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes: Italian workers of the Compagnie des Salins du Midi are attacked in Aigues-Mortes (France) by French villagers and workers with at least 8 deaths. Anti-French riots erupt in Italy. In Rome the windows of the French Embassy are smashed and for a while the angry mob seems to get out of hand.
 * 20 August – Legislative election held.
 * 3 September – Legislative election held.
 * 10 October – First vehicle registration plates in the Seine (department), under terms of a Paris Police Ordinance of 14 August.

January to June

 * 3 February – Gaston Julia, mathematician (died 1978).
 * 5 February – Arsène Roux, Arabist and Berberologist (died 1971).
 * 15 March – Jules Moch, politician (died 1985).
 * 21 March – Marcel Rey-Golliet, boxer (died 1967).
 * 3 April – Bernard Faÿ, historian (died 1978).
 * 17 April – Marguerite Broquedis, tennis player (died 1983).
 * 12 May – René Mourlon, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1977).
 * 14 May – Louis Verneuil, playwright and screenwriter (died 1952).

July to December

 * 28 July – Alfred Eluère, rugby union player (died 1985).
 * 15 August – Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (died 1977).
 * 15 August – Pierre Dac, humorist and French Resistance activist (died 1975).
 * 17 August – Jean Laigret, biologist (died 1966).
 * 19 October – Henri Mignet, aircraft designer and builder (died 1965).
 * 1 November – Pierre Deley, pioneering pilot (died 1981).
 * 5 November – Raymond Loewy, industrial designer (died 1986).
 * 3 December – Edmond Decottignies, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1963).
 * 8 December – Pierre Etchebaster, real tennis player (died 1980).
 * 31 December – Robert Jacquinot, cyclist (died 1980).

Deaths

 * 10 January – Alexis André, missionary priest in Canada (born 1832).
 * 27 March – Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer (born 1815).
 * 4 April – Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist (born 1806).
 * 8 April – Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman (born 1815).
 * 12 April – Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame, printer and publisher (born 1811).
 * 28 April – Gustave Nadaud, songwriter and chansonnier (born 1820).
 * 16 August – Jean-Martin Charcot, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology (born 1825).
 * 17 October – Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, general and politician, first President of the Third Republic (born 1808).
 * 18 October – Charles Gounod, composer (born 1818).
 * 4 November – Pierre Tirard, politician (born 1827).
 * 8 November – Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1815).
 * 17 November – Hippolyte Destailleur, architect (born 1822).

Full date unknown

 * Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot, naturalist and entomologist (born 1818).
 * Augustine Brohan, actress (born 1824).
 * Nicolas Édouard Delabarre-Duparcq, military critic and historian (born 1819).
 * Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize, painter (born 1807).