1892 in France

Incumbents

• President: Marie François Sadi Carnot
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 27 February: Charles de Freycinet
• * 27 February-6 December: Émile Loubet
• * starting 6 December: Alexandre Ribot

  Events

• 12 July – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.
• 8 November – Anarchist bomb kills six in police station in Avenue de l'Opera, Paris.
• 17 November – French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of Dahomey.
• Venus of Brassempouy discovered
• The Panama Canal Company bankruptcy involved over 800,000 French people, including 15,000 single women, losing their investments in stocks, bonds and founder shares of the company, to the sum of approximately 1.8 billion gold Francs.

  Sport

• 20 March – The first ever French rugby championship final takes place in Paris. Pierre de Coubertin referees the match, which Racing Club de France wins, 4–3, over Stade Français.

  Births

January to March

• 22 January – Marcel Dassault, aircraft industrialist
• 24 February – Maurice Monney-Bouton, rower and Olympic medallist
• 10 March – Arthur Honegger, composer
• 22 March – Géo-Charles, poet

  April to June

• 15 April – Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre, Cardinal
• 18 April – Eugene Houdry, mechanical engineer
• 19 April – Germaine Tailleferre, composer
• 26 April – Adrienne Monnier, poet and publisher
• 29 April – Henri Bard, international soccer player
• 8 May – André Obey, playwright
• 10 June – Armand Lunel, writer
• 18 June – Victor Fontan, cyclist

  July to September

• 1 July – Jean Lurçat, painter and tapestry designer
• 19 July – Suzanne Malherbe, illustrator and designer
• 24 July – Marcel Gromaire, painter
• 26 July – Philipp Jarnach, composer
• 28 July – Philippe Cattiau, fencer and Olympic gold medallist
• 15 August – Louis de Broglie, physicist and a Nobel laureate
• 21 August – Charles Vanel, film director and actor
• 4 September – Darius Milhaud, composer
• 26 September – Émile Dewoitine, aviation engineer and industrialist

  October to December

• 26 October – André Chapelon, mechanical engineer and designer of steam locomotives
• 11 November – Gaston Heuet, athlete and Olympic medallist
• 14 November – Dieudonne Costes, aviator
• 20 November – Charlotte de La Trémoille, noblewoman
• 23 November – Romain de Tirtoff, artist and designer

  Full date unknown

• Maurice d'Hartoy, soldier, politician and writer
• Robert Lingat, academic scholar

  Deaths

• 22 April – Édouard Lalo, composer
• 1 June – Louis Janmot, painter and poet
• 22 June – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, mathematician
• 29 July – Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort, writer and politician
• 30 September – Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, librettist and playwright
• 6 October – Jean Antoine Villemin, physician
• 12 October – Ernest Renan, philosopher and writer
• 4 November – Hervé, composer, librettist and conductor
• 15 November – Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, general
• 26 November – Charles Lavigerie, Cardinal, Primate of Africa

  Full date unknown

• Alphonse Sagebien, hydrological engineer