1941 in France
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Events from the year 1941 in France.
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- 17 January - Battle of Koh Chang. Decisive victory by the French over the Thai Navy.
- 3 February - The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
- 9 May - French-Thai War ends
- 8 June - Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon begins, the Syria-Lebanon Campaign.
- 9 June - Battle of the Litani River.
- 13 June - Battle of Jezzine.
- 15 June - Battle of Kissoué begins.
- 17 June - Battle of Kissoué ends with Allied victory.
- 18 June - Battle of Damascus begins.
- 19 June - Battle of Merdjayoun starts.
- 21 June - Battle of Damascus ends, with the Allies taking Damascus.
- 24 June - Battle of Merdjayoun ends.
- 1 July - Battle of Palmyra. Vichy garrison at Palmyra surrenders.
- 3 July - Battle of Deir ez-Zor. Allied victory over Vichy French.
- 5 July - Battle of Damour begins.
- 9 July - Battle of Damour ends, with Allied victory over Vichy French.
- 14 July - Vichy France signs armistice terms ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
- 22 August - German Occupation Authority announces that anyone found either working for or aiding the Free French will be sentenced to death.
- 27 August - Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at Versailles.
- 24 November - The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
- 12 December - United States seizes French ship Normandie.
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[edit] Births
- 20 May - Raymond Forni, Socialist politician (d.2008).
- 17 July - Gribouille, singer (d.1968).
[edit] Deaths
- 4 January - Henri Bergson, philosopher (b.1859).
- 16 April - Émile Bernard, painter (b.1868).
- 26 July - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (b.1875).
- 14 August - Paul Sabatier, chemist, shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (b.1854).
- 6 November - Maurice Leblanc, novelist and short story writer (b.1864).
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- Jacques Curie, physicist (b.1856).
