Edouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries, 1862, National Gallery - London.

Roger and Gallet found their maison de parfumerie. (AF)

Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables.  He also becomes a naturalized French citizen (his father was Italian). He works for the publisher Hatchette in Paris (CHF)

Two theaters, Sarah Bernhardt and Chatalet, are built. (CHF)

The first stone is laid for the new Opera. (CHF)

French painters demonstrate against photography. Actually, the development of photography gives a spur to think of new ways of painting, for example, to rely on impressions rather than literal representations.

More broadly:

 By the Treaty of Hue France acquires the region around Saigon and continues its conquest of this territory. (CHF)

France acquires d'Obock on the Red Sea. This is in Djibouti today. (CHF)