Left: Frederic-Anatole Houbron, Construction de Sacre Coeur, 1899, oil on canvas, Carnavalet (left). Sacre Coeur occupies the top location on Montmartre and offers a broad panorama of the city. Being on the top of a butte, it is a dominant feature on the Paris cityscape. This image is from Duby, L'Histoire de Paris par la Peinture.

Right: Edgar Degas, Four Dancers, c. 1899, Oil on canvas, 151.1 x 180.2 cm (59 1/2 x 71 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington. Source is Artchive.

Georges Feydeau's play La Dame de chez Maxim's is performed at the theatre des Nouveautes. (CHF)

A fire in Paris at the Chamber of Commerce library, place de Bourse, destroys 40,000 volumes.

In the place de la Nation Jules Dalou's monumental sculpture Triomphe de la Republique is installed. (CHF)

Dreyfus is exonerated. Like today, film follows life. Georges Melies produces his first grand film, called L'Affaire Dreyfus. This image of Dreyfus at his exoneration is from Almanach Francais.

More broadly:

Gauguin paints Les Seins aux fleurs rouges. (CHF)

Toulouse Lautrec paints Au Cirque. (CHF)

Berlioz composes La Prise de Troie. (CHF)

Construction of the first French true submarine, capable of taking to the high seas. (AF)

The university population is 28,254 students, of whom 817 are female. (AF)

Speed limits come to France for the growing auto population. 30 kph is the limit on open roads. At the same time, the auto land record tops 100 mph. The first auto Tour de France is held this year. (AF)