1911 in France
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Events from the year 1911 in France.
Incumbents
- President: Armand Fallières
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- until 2 March: Aristide Briand
- 2 March-27 June: Ernest Monis
- starting 27 June: Joseph Caillaux
Events
- 1 July - Agadir Crisis
- 22 August - Theft of Mona Lisa discovered in Louvre. (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned 1913).
- 25 September - French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon.
- 21 December - First robbery of the Bonnot gang.
- Champagne Riots.
Births
January to June
- 5 January - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001)
- 15 January - Jean Talairach, neurosurgeon (died 2007)
- 16 January - Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (died 1996)
- 17 January - André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist (died 1996)
- 18 January - Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (died 1988)
- 22 January - André Roussin, playwright (died 1987)
- 24 January - René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic (died 1985)
- 30 January - René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1983)
- 2 February - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, organist, composer and architect (died 1982)
- 14 February - Jean-Louis Nicot, Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch (died 2004)
- 7 April - Hervé Bazin, writer (died 1996)
- 9 April - Paul Coste-Floret, politician (died 1979)
- 10 April - Maurice Schumann, politician (died 1998)
- 2 May - Edmond Pagès, cyclist (died 1987)
- 17 May - André Jaunet, flautist (died 1988)
- 24 May - Michel Pécheux, fencer (died 1985)
- 6 June - Jean Cayrol, poet and publisher (died 2005)
- 15 June - Joseph Alcazar, international soccer player (died 1979)
July to September
- 5 July - Georges Pompidou, President of France (died 1974)
- 23 July - Jean Fontenay, cyclist (died 1975)
- 1 August - André Guinier, physicist (died 2000)
- 18 August - Jacques Wertheimer, businessman (died 1996)
- 25 August - André Leroi-Gourhan, archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist (died 1986)
- 7 September - Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (died 1986)
October to December
- 12 October - Louis de Guiringaud, politician and Minister (died 1982)
- 13 October - André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (died 1988)
- 19 October - Laurette Séjourné, archeologist and ethnologist (died 2003)
- 31 October - René Hardy, French Resistance worker (died 1987)
- 1 November - Henri Troyat, author, biographer, historian and novelist (died 2007)
- 7 November - Yolande Beekman, World War II heroine (executed) (died 1944)
- 22 November - Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (died 1993)
- 8 December - Sauveur Ducazeaux, cyclist (died 1987)
- 21 December - Yves Godard, military officer (died 1975)
- 25 December - Louise Bourgeois, artist and sculptor
- 28 December - Gustave Malécot, mathematician (died 1998)
- 29 December - Bernard Saint-Hillier, General (died 2004)
Full date unknown
- Louis Dumont, anthropologist (died 1998)
- Louis Henry, historian (died 1991)
Deaths
- 13 February - Alphonse Pinart, explorer, philologist, and ethnographer (born 1852)
- 17 February - Auguste Houzeau, agronomist and chemist (born 1829)
- 24 March - Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist (born 1824)
- 29 March - Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (born 1837)
- 7 June - Maurice Rouvier, statesman (born 1842)
- 18 July - Jules Bourgeois, entomologist (born 1847)
- 11 September - Louis Henri Boussenard, author of adventure novels (born 1847)
- 30 September - Louis Joseph Troost, chemist (born 1825)
- 7 October - Marie Clément Gaston Gautier, botanist (born 1841)
- 8 December - Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (born 1837)
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