1902 in France

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← 1901 1900 1899 1898 1897 1902 in France → 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1902 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1902 in France.

Incumbents[]

• President: Émile Loubet
• President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (until 7 June), Emile Combes (starting 7 June)

Events[]

• 13 April – A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.
• 27 April – Legislative Election held.
• 11 May – Legislative Election held.

Arts and literature[]

• January - Alfred Loisy writes , which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.
• George Melies performs play Voyage to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune)

Births[]

January–June[]

• 11 January – Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (died 1986)
• 13 January – Raymond Ruyer, philosopher (died 1987)
• 18 January – Émile Aillaud, architect (died 1988)
• 25 January – André Beaufre, colonel (died 1975)
• 29 January – Arlette Marchal, actress (died 1984)
• 8 February – André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (died 2004)
• 26 February – Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (died 1991)
• 9 March – Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (died 1945)
• 13 March – Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (died 1999)
• 14 March – Henri Barbé, communist (died 1966)
• 16 March – Louis Couffignal, mathematician and cybernetics pioneer (died 1966)
• 22 March – Madeleine Milhaud, actress (died 2008)
• 29 March – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (died 1967)
• 4 April – Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (died 1969)
• 9 April – Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (died 2000)
• 3 May – Alfred Kastler, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 7 May – Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (died 2001)
• 8 May – André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (died 1994)^[1]
• 27 May – Émile Benveniste, structural linguist (died 1976)
• 2 June – Georges Coudray, politician (died 1998)
• 15 June – Pierre Béarn, writer (died 2004)
• 28 June – Pierre Brunet, figure skater (died 1991)

July–December[]

• 6 July – Louis Vola, double bass player (died 1990)
• 16 July – Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (died 1989)
• 9 August – Zino Francescatti, violinist (died 1991)
• 11 August – Christian de Castries, military officer (died 1991)
• 16 August – Gilbert Gérintès, rugby union player (died 1968)
• 24 August – Fernand Braudel, historian (died 1985)
• 28 August – Jean Favard, mathematician (died 1965)
• 15 October – André Prudhommeaux, anarchist bookstore owner (died 1968)
• 20 October – René Floriot, lawyer (died 1975).
• 31 October – Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (died 1970)
• 4 November – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (died 1996)
• 16 November – Paul Bontemps, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1981)
• 20 November – Jean Painlevé, film director (died 1989)
• 31 December – Marcel Bidot, cyclist (died 1995)

Full date unknown[]

• Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (died 1988)

Deaths[]

• 26 January- Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet (born 1847])
• 6 February – Clémence Royer, scholar (born 1830)
• 17 February – Marie-Louise Gagneur, feminist (born 1832)
• 12 April – Marie Alfred Cornu, physicist (born 1841)
• 15 April – Jules Dalou, sculptor (born 1838)
• 4 July – Hervé Faye, astronomer (born 1814)
• 8 August – James Tissot, painter (born 1836)
• 29 September – Émile Zola, writer (born 1840)
• 7 December – Pierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist (born 1830)

Full date unknown[]

• Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (born 1820)

See also[]

• List of French films before 1910

References[]