1894 in France

This page relates to the year 1894 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

March 3rd: Jean Casimir-Perier joins again the dialog with the Church: challenged on his religious policy, the chief of the government states that the relations between the Church and the Republic must be controls in a “new spirit”.
May 12th: Dedication of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Cambric Grâce (Northern), restored and increased.
June 25th: Assassination of the President of the Republic Sadi Carnot in Lyon by the anarchist Santo Jeronimo Caserio. This murder involves measurements of repression against which the left protests (Laws scélérates, which restricts freedom of the press).
July 22nd: First automobile race on road (Paris - Rouen). The speed records were reached by the marquis Albert de Dion (22 km/h).
July 28th: vote “Lois scélérates” against the anarchists.
November 30th: Creation by the law Siegfried - Ribot of the dwellings at a cheap rate (HBM).
December 3rd: Jean Casimir-Perier is elected President of the Republic, to replace Sadi Carnot (fine in 1895).

Creation of the ministry for the Colonies.
the polytechnician Marc Sangnier founds the newspaper the Furrow , and wants “to put at the service of the French democracy the social forces of Catholicism”.

In September, Hubert-Joseph Henry, ordering section of the statistics of the Large Staff, is in possession of a form not signed, containing a list of secrecies military and addressed to the German military attach3e in station with Paris, the lieutenant-colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen.
October 6th: The French intelligence services allots to the captain Alfred Dreyfus the paternity of a “form” addressed to the embassy of Germany.
October 15th: Arrest of the Dreyfus captain on order of the commander Draper of Paty de Clam, following an expertise in writing.
December 19th: Opening to door-close first Dreyfus lawsuit.
December 22nd: Within sight of new documents (in fact of the forgeries), Dreyfus is declared guilty of espionage to the profit of Germany and is condemned to the deportation with perpetuity in an enclosure strengthened after the discovery of escapes to the staff. His/her brother, then the Scheurer-Kestner deputy, Emile Zola, the colonel Georges Picquart, convinced of its innocence, runs up against the silence of the army which refuses to denounce the true culprit, Esterhazy and to revise the lawsuit of Dreyfus. The Affaire Dreyfus deeply divides the country between supporters of Dreyfus and antidreyfusards. The latter are supported by a press very virulent anti-semite. The implications will be very important: political instability and weakening of the position of France in Europe.

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