Left: Cezanne, Portrait of Gustave Geffroy, 1895.

Right: Cezanne, Bibemus Quarry,, 1895, Folkway Museum, Germany.

Cezanne had a one person show at Gallerie Vollard that was quite influential on Pissarro. From Artchive: "Among the other category - the true painters, those who do painting - Pissarro would place the Impressionists at large, and among them, Degas and Cézanne in particular. He viewed Cezanne's 1895 exhibition at Vollard's with wild enthusiasm: 'I was thinking of Cezanne's exhibition, where exquisite things can be seen, still lifes of an irreproachable finish, others very worked out and yet left halfway; however, the latter are even more beautiful than the others: one can see landscapes, nudes, some heads that are unfinished and yet truly grandiose, and it is so painterly, so supple.' So one might ask, What stands in the way of a painting's becoming a true   painting - or a painter's painting? Referring specifically to Puvis de Chavannes again, Pissarro answered: 'It was not made to be seen as a picture.' It may look astonishing when presented in the right environment, 'but it is not painting'.

The start of the phonographic industry at Vincennes by Charles and Emile Pathe. (AF)

Theophile Bader found Galeries Lafayette - one of the great department stores in Paris to this day. (AF)

Oscar Metenier opens the Theatre Salon, which specializes in violent drama and is open until 1962. (AF)

Dreyfus is marched in humiliation before the troops in Paris. (AF)

The first private showing of a motion picture occurs this year, at 44 rue de Rennes (6th arrondissement). It is done by Louis Lumiere at a cinemagragraphic conference. This quickly spreads in France to other cities and a the first public films are shown by the end of the year. (AF)

A car race from Paris to Bordeaux shows the superiority of petrol over steam as a means of propulsion. (AF)

The Automobile Club of France is founded and located on the quai d'Orsay. (AF)

There is a hard and cold winter. (AF)