1906 in France
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See also: 1905 in France, other events of 1906, 1907 in France.
Events from the year 1906 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 16 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
- 10 March - Explosion in coal mine in Courrières kills 1099.
- 7 April - Final agreement from Algeciras Conference is signed.
- 6 May - Legislative Election held.
- 20 May - Legislative Election held.
- 12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated.
- 21 July - Dreyfus is reinstalled in the French Army 21 July, ending the Dreyfus Affair.
- 23 October - Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft performs the first publicly witnessed European unaided take-off by a heavier-than-air aircraft, in Bagatelle.
[edit] Sport
- 4 July - Tour de France begins.
- 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by René Pottier.
[edit] Births
- 25 March - Jean Sablon, singer and actor (d.1994).
- 6 May - André Weil, mathematician (d.1998).
- 24 June - Pierre Fournier, cellist (d.1986).
- 6 September - Luis Federico Leloir, doctor and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.1987).
- 3 October - Raymond Triboulet, resistance fighter and politician (d.2006).
- 16 November - Henri Charrière, convicted felon and author (d.1973).
- 27 December - Andreas Feininger, photographer (d.1999).
[edit] Deaths
- 1 April - Léon Fairmaire, entomologist (b.1820).
- 19 April - Pierre Curie, physicist, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics (b.1859).
- 26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat (b.1846).
- 22 October - Paul Cézanne, painter (b.1839).
- 5 September - Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (b.1839).
- 9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic (b.1849).
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- Léon Gastinel, composer (b.1813).
