Cezanne, Le Fumeur, 1896 (left).

Maximilien Luce, La rue des Abbesses, 1896, oil on canvas, Musee de Petit Palais, Geneva (right). This street is on the way up Montmartre. This image is from Duby, L'Histoire de Paris par la Peinture.

The first Paris-Marseille car race is held. (CHF)

Pierre Bonnard paints Le 14 Julliet. (CHF)

An early film, the House of the Devil, makes its debut. (CHF)

A laboratory of psychoanalysis is added to the faculty of medicine in Paris. (CHF)

There is a feminist Congress held in Paris. (AF)

Tsar Nicolas visits France and lays the first stone on the bridge Alexandre III. (AF)

The army museum is created at Invalides and formally opens next year. (AF)

More broadly:

Italy recognizes France's right as protector of Tunisia. (CHF)

The Olympics are revived. (AF)

The first French ski club is founded in Grenoble. (AF)

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity of uranium and demonstrates an X-ray. This was done at the Grand cafe on the blvd. des Capucines. (AF)

The ministry of Posts and Telegraph is established, which has the postal monopoly. (AF)

It is exceptionally warm in Paris this year, with September's temperatures being the highest since 1769. (AF)

 France gets it first Muslim Deputy, Dr. Philippe Grenier, a convert. (AF)