1904 in France
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See also: 1903 in France, other events of 1904, 1905 in France.
Events from the year 1904 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.
[edit] Arts and Literature
[edit] Sport
- 2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
- 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Henri Cornet.
[edit] Births
- 17 May - Jean Gabin, actor (d.1976).
- 25 May - Marcel Thil, world champion boxer (d.1968).
- 2 July - René Lacoste, tennis player (d.1996).
- 8 July - Henri Cartan, mathematician.
- 12 November - Jacques Tourneur, film director (d.1977).
- 22 November - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 (d.2000).
- 6 December - Ève Curie, author and writer, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (d.2007).
- 12 December - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor (d.1981).
[edit] Deaths
- 10 January - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (b.1824).
- 19 May - Auguste Molinier, historian (b.1851).
- 27 June - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (b.1821).
- 25 August - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (b.1836).
- 23 September - Émile Gallé, artist (b.1846).
- 4 October - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (b.1834).
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- Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (b.1843).
