1897 in France

Events from the year 1897 in France.

Events

9 December - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand.

28 December - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.

21 January - René Iché, sculptor (d.1954).
30 March - Raymond Borderie, film producer (d.1982).
4 April - Pierre Fresnay, actor (d.1975).
27 May - Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist (d.1985).

3 July - Charles Tillon, politician (d.1993).
25 July - André Muffang, chess master (d.1989).
2 August - Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (d.1990).
10 September - Georges Bataille, writer (d.1962).
12 September - Pierre Courant, politician (d.1965).
12 September - Irène Joliot-Curie, scientist, shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 (d.1956).

3 October - Louis Aragon, poet and novelist (d.1982).
16 October - Louis de Cazenave, at the time of his death, the oldest French poilu still alive (d.2008).
27 November - André Couder, optician and astronomer (d.1979).
3 December - André Marie, politician and Prime Minister of France (d.1974).
7 December - Lazare Ponticelli, last surviving official French veteran of the First World War (d.2008).
19 December - Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime (d.1980).
20 December - Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (d.1972).
25 December - Noël Delberghe, water polo player and Olympic medallist (d.1965).

13 January - Charles Brun, naval engineer (b.1821).
19 June - Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (b.1827).
5 July - Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian (b.1818).
30 September - Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (b.1873).
6 November - Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (b.1817).
16 December - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (b.1840).