1907 in France

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Events from the year 1907 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Armand Fallières
  • President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau

Events[]

  • 2 January – Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifixes in schools
  • 11 February – The French cruiser Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
  • March – ESSEC Business School is founded.
  • 12 March – The French battleship Iéna blows up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
  • 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 dismissal of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest.
  • 17 May – Several thousand riot during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers at Béziers in the 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 rehabilitation.
  • 14 July – President Armand Fallières narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
  • 10 August – Peking to Paris motor race concludes.
  • 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[]

  • 8 January – Jean Hyppolite, philosopher (died 1968)
  • 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)
    • 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)
  • 10 April – Marcel Simon, historian (died 1986)
  • 12 April – Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver (died 1983)
  • 15 April – Jean Fourastié, economist (died 1990)
  • 28 April – Henri Michel, historian (died 1986)
  • 29 April – Tino Rossi, singer and actor (died 1983)
  • 22 May – Jean Beaufret, philosopher and Germanist (died 1982)
  • 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)
  • 16 October – Roger Vailland, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (died 1965)
  • 17 October – Marcel Barbu, politician (died 1984)
  • 29 October – Edwige Feuillère, actress (died 1998)
  • 1 November
    • Paul Bacon, politician (died 1999)
    • 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)
    • 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)

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)
  • 16 July – Théobald Chartran, painter (born 1849)
  • 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)

See also[]

References[]

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