Events from the year 1867 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Napoleon III
Events 1 January - Napoleon III announces liberal reforms. 13 January - French military mission to Japan (1867–68) arrives in Yokohama. February - Strike of bronzeworkers in Paris. 5 February - Second French intervention in Mexico: French troops evacuate from the capital; on 12 March the last French forces leave the country. 1 April–3 November - Exposition Universelle in Paris. 10 April - Victor Duruy introduces legislation for female education. 6 June - Polish nationalist émigré Antoni Berezowski makes an attempt on the lives of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Emperor Napoleon III in the Bois de Boulogne. 7 June - Adolphe Dugléré prepares the Three Emperors Dinner. 25 June - The provinces of Châu Đốc, Hà Tiên and Vĩnh Long, ceded by Annam, are added to French Cochinchina. 24 July - Law on Sociétés anonymes. Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.
Births 21 January - Maxime Weygand, military commander (died 1965) 14 April - René Boylesve, author (died 1926) 17 May - Georgette Agutte, painter (died 1922) 3 October - Pierre Bonnard, painter and printmaker (died 1947)
Deaths 14 January - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, painter (born 1780) 17 January - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps, naturalist and palaeontologist (born 1794) 31 May - Théophile-Jules Pelouze, chemist (born 1807) 11 June - Jean Pierre Pellissier, missionary to Southern Africa (born 1808) 7 July - François Ponsard, dramatist (born 1814) 31 July - Benoît Fourneyron, engineer, designed the first practical water turbine (born 1802) 23 August - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, satirical poet (born 1796) 31 August - Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator (born 1821) 5 October - Achille Fould, financier and politician (born 1800) 15 October - Louis Eugène Marie Bautain, philosopher and theologian (born 1796) 28 November - Jean-Charles-Alphonse Avinain, "The Terror of Gonesse", serial killer, executed (born 1798) 6 December - Jean Pierre Flourens, physiologist (born 1794) 22 December - Jean-Victor Poncelet, engineer and mathematician (born 1788) Full date unknown - Auguste Belloc, photographer (born 1800)
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