1902 in France
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See also: 1901 in France, other events of 1902, 1903 in France.
Events from the year 1902 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 13 April - A new car speed record of 74mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.
- 27 April - Legislative Election held.
- 11 May - Legislative Election held.
[edit] Arts and Literature
- January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.
[edit] Sport
[edit] Births
- 11 January - Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (d.1986).
- 25 January - André Beaufre, colonel (d.1975).
- 9 March - Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (d.1945).
- 22 March - Madeleine Milhaud, actress (d.2008).
- 29 March - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (d.1967).
- 4 April - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (d.1969).
- 3 May - Alfred Kastler, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate (d.1984).
- 8 May - André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (d.1994).
- 9 August - Zino Francescatti, violinist (d.1991).
[edit] Deaths
- 8 August - James Tissot, painter (b.1836).
- 29 September - Émile Zola, writer (b.1840).
