1913 in France

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Events from the year 1913 in France.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

  • 17 January – Raymond Poincaré is elected president
  • 3 February – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.
  • 20 August – 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud jumps from an airplane and lands safely.
  • 23 September – Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean.

Arts and literature[]

  • 29 May – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
  • 12 December – Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.
  • 30 December – Italy returns Mona Lisa to France.

Sport[]

  • 29 June – Tour de France begins.
  • 27 July – Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.

Births[]

January to March[]

  • 5 January – Pierre Veuillot, Cardinal (died 1968)
  • 17 February – Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (died 2004)
  • 24 February – François Bourbotte, soccer player (died 1972)
  • 27 February – Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (died 2005)
  • 3 March – Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (died 1978)
  • 12 March – Max Leognany, artist (died 1994)
  • 18 March – René Clément, screenwriter and film director (died 1996)
  • 26 March – Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (died 1970)
  • 26 March – Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist (died 2010)
  • 28 March – Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (died 2001)

April to June[]

  • 14 April – Jean Fournet, conductor (died 2008)
  • 18 May – Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (died 2001)
  • 26 May –
    • Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (died 2005)
    • André Lalande, officer (died 1995)
  • 9 June – Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (died 1978)
  • 18 June – Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (died 2008)
  • 26 June – Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (died 2008)

July to December[]

  • 12 July – Roger Testu, cartoonist (died 2008)
  • 13 July – Fabien Galateau, cyclist (died 1995)
  • 17 July – Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher (died 2012)
  • July – Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (died 1981)
  • 31 August – Jacques Foccart, politician (died 1997)
  • 10 October – Claude Simon, novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1985 (died 2005)
  • 13 October – Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (died 1988)
  • 7 November – Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957 (died 1960)
  • 20 November – Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (died 2006)
  • 29 November – Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 1983)
  • 11 December – Jean Marais, actor (died 1998)

Full date unknown[]

  • Pierre Probst, cartoonist (died 2007)

Deaths[]

  • 2 January – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (born 1855)
  • 14 June – Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (born 1848)
  • 20 August – Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (born 1825)
  • 6 September – Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (born 1853)
  • 15 November – Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (born 1832)
  • 5 December – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (born 1816)

See also[]

References[]

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