Events from the year 1880 in France.

Events

• 29 June - France annexes Tahiti.
• Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.

Births

• 14 January - Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Cardinal (d.1965).
• 5 February - Gabriel Voisin, aviation pioneer (d.1973).
• 20 February - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (d.1923).
• 21 February - Pierre Chaumié, politician (d.1966).
• 17 April - Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (d.1967).
• 25 May - Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (d.1967).
• 26 August - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (d.1918).
• 8 December - Clément-Emile Roques, Cardinal (d.1964).

Full date unknown

• Charles Catteau, industrial designer (d.1966).
• Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, composer and conductor (d.1965).

Deaths

• 4 January - Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (b.1801).
• 17 January - Agenor, duc de Gramont, diplomat and statesman (b.1819).
• 31 January - Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (b.1806).
• 8 May - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (b.1821).
• 24 June - Jules Antoine Lissajous, mathematician (b.1822).
• 9 July - Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b.1824).
• 10 November - Sabin Berthelot, naturalist and ethnologist (b.1794).
• 20 November - Léon Cogniet, painter (b.1794).
• 24 November - Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (b.1807).

Full date unknown

• Vrain Denis-Lucas, forger (b.1818).

References