1907 In France

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

* List of French films before 1910

References

{{Year in Europe, 1907

1900s in France