1901 in France

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Events from the year 1901 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Émile Loubet
  • President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau

Events[]

  • 10 August – Moberly-Jourdain incident.

Arts and literature[]

  • 17 March – A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

Sport[]

  • 1 January – The French rugby team plays its first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks.

Births[]

January to March[]

  • 1 January – Marcel Balsa, motor racing driver (died 1984)
  • 2 January – Louis Poterat, lyricist (died 1982)
  • 8 January – Eugène Constant, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1971)
  • 19 January – Henri Daniel-Rops, writer and historian (died 1965)
  • 24 January – Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, painter, commercial poster artist and typeface designer (died 1968)
  • 20 February
    • Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1977)
    • René Dubos, microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist and humanist (died 1982)
  • 21 February
    • Albert Dupouy, rugby union player (died 1973)
    • Pierre Lewden, athlete (died 1989)
  • 3 March – Corentin Louis Kervran, scientist (died 1983)
  • 17 March – Alexandre Bioussa, rugby union player (died 1966)
  • 26 March – Maurice Dorléac, actor (died 1979)

April to June[]

  • 7 April – André Trocmé, pastor who aided Jewish refugees (died 1971)
  • 8 April – Jean Prouvé, architect and designer (died 1984)
  • 13 April – Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor (died 1981)
  • 15 April – René Pleven, politician (died 1993)
  • 20 April – Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (died 1990)
  • 24 April – René Le Hénaff, film editor and director (died 2005)
  • 15 May – Jacques Natanson, writer (died 1975)
  • 18 May- Henri Sauguet, composer (died 1989)
  • 25 May
    • Jean Borthayre, operatic baritone (died 1984)
    • André Girard, painter, poster-maker and Resistance member (died 1968)
  • 31 May – Charles Brunier, convicted murderer and veteran of the First and Second World Wars who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon (died 2007)
  • 16 June – Henri Lefebvre, sociologist and philosopher (died 1991)
  • 24 June – Marcel Mule, classical saxophonist (died 2001)
  • 26 June – Jean Boyer, film director and author (died 1965)

July to September[]

  • 20 July – Gaston Waringhien, linguist, lexicographer and Esperantist (died 1991)
  • 31 July – Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (died 1985)
  • 5 August – Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP (died 2000)
  • 17 August – Henri Tomasi, composer and conductor (died 1971)
  • 18 August – Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (died 1999)
  • 19 August – René Capitant, lawyer and politician (died 1970)
  • 27 August – Pierre Villon, member of the French Communist Party and of the French Resistance (died 1980)
  • 29 August – Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore (died 1977)
  • 8 September – Jacques Perret, writer (died 1992)
  • 16 September
    • Andrée Brunet, figure skater (died 1993)
    • Louis Joxe, statesman and Minister (died 1991)
  • 25 September – Robert Bresson, film director (died 1999)

October to December[]

  • 3 October – François Le Lionnais, chemical engineer and mathematician (died 1984)
  • 12 October – Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Cardinal (died 1994)
  • 3 November – André Malraux, author, adventurer and statesman (died 1976)
  • 14 December – Henri Cochet, tennis player (died 1987)

Full date unknown[]

  • Roland Ansieau, graphic artist (died 1987)

Deaths[]

  • 5 January – Pierre Potain, cardiologist (born 1825)
  • 13 January – Gaspard Adolphe Chatin, physician, mycologist and botanist (born 1813)
  • 16 January – Jules Barbier, poet and librettist (born 1825)
  • 28 January – Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist (born 1825)
  • 9 February – Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (born 1822)
  • 17 March – Jean-Charles Cazin, landscape painter and ceramicist (born 1840)
  • 29 March – Xavier Barbier de Montault, theologian (born 1830)
  • 9 June – Casimir Marie Gaudibert, astronomer and selenographer (born 1823)
  • 28 July – Paul Alexis, novelist, dramatist and journalist (born 1847)
  • 12 August – Ernest de Jonquières, mathematician (born 1820)
  • 17 August – Edmond Audran, composer (born 1840)
  • 9 September – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (born 1864)
  • date unknown
    • Henriette Browne, painter and traveller (born 1829)
    • Charles Jalabert, painter (born 1819)

See also[]

References[]

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