1860 in France

• Monarch – Napoleon III ==Events==

• 1 January - Paris administratively annexes neighbouring communes. • 23 January - Cobden-Chevalier Treaty Free Trade treaty is signed between the United Kingdom and France. • 9 April - Typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings "Au clair de la lune" into his phonautograph, producing the world's earliest known sound recording of a song. However, it would not be converted back into audible sound until 2008. • 18 October - At the end of the Second Opium War, British and French troops enter the Forbidden City in Beijing. • 24 October - Convention of Peking signed by Chinese with Britain and France. ==Births==

• 11 February - Rachilde, author (died 1953) • 25 June - Gustave Charpentier, composer (died 1956) • 16 August - Jules Laforgue, poet (died 1887) • 20 August - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France (died 1934) • 26 November – Gabrielle Petit, feminist activist, anticlerical, libertarian socialist, and newspaper editor (died 1952) ==Deaths==

• 29 January - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1789) • 14 March - Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor (born 1812) • 31 March - Évariste Régis Huc, Catholic priest and traveller (born 1813) • 28 May – Rosine de Chabaud-Latour, French religious thinker and translator (born 1794) • 24 June - Jérôme Bonaparte, youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia (born 1784) • 22 August - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803) • 3 December - Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher, geologist (born 1817) • 17 December - Désirée Clary, wife of King Charles XIV of Sweden and a one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1777) Full date unknown • Carron du Villards, ophthalmologist (born 1801) ==References==