1901 in France
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See also: | Other events of 1901 History of France • Timeline • Years |
Events from the year 1901 in France.
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)
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