1891 in France

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See also:	Other events of 1891; History of France • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1891 in France.

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1 May – Fusillade de Fourmies, nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies.^[1]
27 August – France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.

11 July
- Gabriel Benoist, writer (died 1964)
- Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, aviator (died 1944)
21 July – Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (died 1972)
1 August – Charles Ritz, hotelier and fly fisherman (died 1976)
6 August – Yvette Andréyor, actress (died 1962)
9 August – Joseph-Marie Martin, cardinal (died 1976)
15 August – Jean De Briac, actor (died 1970)
3 September – Marcel Grandjany, harpist and composer (died 1975)
10 September – Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (died 2001)
26 September – Charles Münch, conductor and violinist (died 1968)

10 October – Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (died 1977)
17 November – Jean Del Val, actor (died 1975)
15 December – Martial Guéroult, philosopher and historian of philosophy (died 1976)
23 December – Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (died 1972)
26 December – Jean Galtier-Boissière, writer, polemist and journalist (died 1966)
30 December – Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1994)

^ Stuart, Robert (1992). Marxism at work: ideology, class, and French socialism during the Third Republic (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-0-521-41526-2.