1904 in France

1904
in
France

Decades:
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
See also:Other events of 1904
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Events from the year 1904 in France.

Incumbents

Events

  • 24 February - First launch of a French diesel-powered submarine, Aigrette.
  • 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.
  • Cosmetics company Laboratoires Garnier is established.

Arts and literature

The unofficial art mouvement of Fauvism (Fauves is the French word for "wild beasts"). Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was the leader of the small group, with other major artists including André Derain (1880-1954) and maurice de Vlaminick (1876-1958). The mouvement was never made official with documents signed by members of a list of criteria in order for work to be considered Fauvism, but it was simply a small group of mainly French painters who used brilliant colour and unexpected brushstrokes, similar to the German Expressionism mouvement. Matisse created the Fauve style after experimenting with post-impressionistic painters, such as Gauguin, Cézanne and Van Gogh, as well as the Neo-impressionism of Cross, Signac and Seurat. All these painters inspired Matisse to reject 3D uses of spaces and use colour and mouvement to create 2D planes of space.

Sport

Births

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October to December

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