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| 1894 |
| | | Claude Debussy's tone poem L'Après-midi d'un faune has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1894 |
| | | The first competitive event for cars is held over a distance of 78 miles from Paris to Rouen | |
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| c. 1895 |
| | | General Alfred von Schlieffen devises plans for a potential two-pronged attack against France and Russia in a swift war | |
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| 1896 |
| | | French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers in uranium salt the phenomenon of natural radioactivity | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Émile Zola sends an open letter to the French president, headed 'J'accuse!', drawing attention to the injustice done to Alfred Dreyfus | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Marie Curie and her husband Pierre isolate a new element which they name polonium in honour of her native Poland | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the element radium, working without any protection because unaware of the danger of radioactivity | |
|  | Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1899 |
| | | Belgian racing driver Camille Jenatzy is the first to drive faster than a mile a minute, reaching 65 mph in an electric car at Achères in France | |
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| 1899 |
| | | At a retrial of Alfred Dreyfus a new court martial confirms his conviction for treason | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Ten days after the court martial's verdict, Alfred Dreyfus is given a pardon by the president of France | |
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