Emmanuel Lansyer, La Cour de la Vielle Sorbonne, 1886, oil on canvas, Carnavalet. Today this court is planted with trees and has several cafes and bookstores. It is just off Boulevard St. Michel between rue Soufflot and rue des Ecoles. This image is from Duby, L'Histoire de Paris par la Peinture.

Telephone connections are made between Paris and Brussels. (CHF)

Gauguin goes to Pont-Aven. CHF)

Van Gogh arrives in Paris. (CHF)

Toulouse-Lautrec paints Portrait of Suzanne Valadon. (CHF)

Faure composes his Requiem. (CHF)

Edgar Degas, Woman Combing Her Hair, c. 1886, Pastel on cardboard, 21 x 20 1/2 in. (53 x 52 cm), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Medical school students demonstrate against the admission on non French female students. The Paris municipal council approved their admission last year. (AF)

More broadly:

Society Panhard et Levassor is founded, the first firm for the production of automobiles. (AF)

Bulgaria is recognized as an independent state, to the protests of the Greeks. (CHF)

The French population passes 38,500,000. (CHF)

Thermal baths open at Thonon les Bains. (AF)