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Events

2 January - Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifix in schools
February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
March - The French warship Jena is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
ESSEC Business School is founded
6 April - Louis Blériot flies his new monoplane ten yards.
10 April - French doctors announce the discovery of a new serum to cure dysentery.
18 April - Georges Clemenceau orders sacking of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest.
17 May - Several thousand riot in support of local wine growers at Beizers south of France.
9 June - Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's combined aeroplane and airship is wrecked in its first trial
28 June - Georges Clemenceau wins a majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
12 July - Major Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his rehablitiation.
14 July - President Armand Fallières narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
18 December - Louis Blériot's demonstrations of his new aeroplane at Issy end in its destruction.

Sport

8 July - Tour de France begins.
4 August - Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Petit-Breton.

Births

January to March

11 January - Pierre Mendès France, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1982)
24 January — Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (died 1999)
5 February - Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister (died 2000)
15 February - Célestin Delmer, international soccer player (died 1996)
15 February - Jean Langlais, composer and organist (died 1991)
22 March - Roger Blin, comedian and actor (died 1984)

April to June

7 April - Violette Leduc, author (died 1972)
12 April - Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver (died 1983)
15 April - Jean Fourastié, economist (died 1990)
29 April - Tino Rossi, singer and actor (died 1983)
23 May - Ginette Mathiot, food writer (died 1998)
26 May - Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (died 2006)
30 May - Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (died 2008)
12 June - Émile Veinante, soccer player and coach (died 1983)
14 June - René Char, poet (died 1988)
17 June - Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (died 1990)

July to September

7 July - Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (died 1988)
5 August - Eugène Guillevic, poet (died 1997)
7 September - Roland Mousnier, historian (died 1993)
22 September - Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (died 2003)
23 September - Anne Desclos, journalist and novelist (died 1998)

October to December

1 October - Maurice Bardèche, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist (died 1998)
4 October - Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (died 1994)
5 October - Jean Louis, costume designer (died 1997)
8 October - Pierre Bertaux, Germanist (died 1986)
9 October - Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker (died 1982)
13 October - Yves Allégret, film director (died 1987)
17 October - Marcel Barbu, politician (died 1984)
29 October - Edwige Feuillère, actress (died 1998)
1 November - Paul Bacon, politician (died 1999)
1 November - Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (died 1990)
3 November - Raymond Bussières, actor (died 1982)
6 November - Raymond Savignac, graphic artist (died 2002)
18 November - Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (died 1994)
19 November - Fernand Cornez, cyclist (died 1997)
20 November - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977)
30 November - Jacques Barzun, historian (died 2012)
10 December - Daniel Barbier, astronomer (died 1965)
10 December - Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (died 2005)
16 December - Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General (died 1986)
24 December - André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist (died 1986)

Full date unknown

Jean Beaufret, philosopher and Germanist (died 1982)
Jean Hyppolite, philosopher (died 1968)
Henri Michel, historian (died 1986)
Marcel Simon, historian (died 1986)
Roger Vailland, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (died 1965)

Deaths

20 January - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (born 1839)
25 January - René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (born 1879)
16 February - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (born 1817)
20 February - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
21 February - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (born 1827)
11 March - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (born 1847)
18 March - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (born 1827)
12 May - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (born 1848)
13 July - Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (born 1843)
6 September - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (born 1839)
21 September - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (born 1827)
1 November - Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist (born 1873)

Full date unknown

Théobald Chartran, painter (born 1849)

References

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