1901 in France

See also: 1900 in France, other events of 1901, 1902 in France.

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Events from the year 1901 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 January to March 4.2 April to June 4.3 July to September 4.4 October to December 4.5 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• 10 August - Moberly-Jourdain incident.

Arts and literature

• 17 March - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

Sport

• 1 January - The French rugby team plays its first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks.

Births

January to March

• 1 January - Marcel Balsa, motor racing driver (d.1984).
• 8 January - Eugène Constant, rower and Olympic medallist (d.1971).
• 19 January - Henri Daniel-Rops, writer and historian (d.1965).
• 24 January - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, painter, commercial poster artist and typeface designer (d.1968).
• 20 February - Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (d.1977).
• 20 February - René Dubos, microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist and humanist (d.1982).
• 21 February - Albert Dupouy, rugby union player (d.1973).
• 21 February - Pierre Lewden, athlete (d.1989).
• 17 March - Alexandre Bioussa, rugby union player (d.1966).
• 26 March - Maurice Dorléac, actor (d.1979).

April to June

• 7 April - André Trocmé, pastor who aided Jewish refugees (d.1971).
• 8 April - Jean Prouvé, architect and designer (d.1984).
• 13 April - Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor (d.1981).
• 15 April - René Pleven, politician (d.1993).
• 20 April - Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (d.1990).
• 24 April - René Le Hénaff, film editor and director (d.2005).
• 18 May - Henri Sauguet, composer (d.1989).
• 25 May - Jean Borthayre, operatic baritone (d.1984).
• 25 May - André Girard, painter, poster-maker and Resistance member (d.1968).
• 31 May - Charles Brunier, convicted murderer and veteran of the First and Second World Wars who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon (d.2007).
• 16 June - Henri Lefebvre, sociologist and philosopher (d.1991).
• 24 June - Marcel Mule, classical saxophonist (d.2001).

July to September

• 20 July - Gaston Waringhien, linguist, lexicographer and Esperantist (d.1991).
• 31 July - Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (d.1985).
• 5 August - Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP (d.2000).
• 17 August - Henri Tomasi, composer and conductor (d.1971).
• 18 August — Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (d.1999).
• 19 August - René Capitant, lawyer and politician (d.1970).
• 27 August - Pierre Villon, member of the French Communist Party and of the French Resistance (d.1980).
• 29 August - Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore (d.1977).
• 8 September - Jacques Perret, writer (d.1992).
• 16 September - Andrée Brunet, figure skater (d.1993).
• 16 September - Louis Joxe, statesman and Minister (d.1991).
• 25 September — Robert Bresson, film director (d.1999).

October to December

• 3 October - François Le Lionnais, chemical engineer and mathematician (d.1984).
• 12 October - Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Cardinal (d.1994).
• 3 November - André Malraux, author, adventurer and statesman (d.1976).
• 14 December - Henri Cochet, tennis player (d.1987).

Full date unknown

• Roland Ansieau, graphic artist (d.1987).
• Jean Boyer, film director and author (d.1965).
• Corentin Louis Kervran, scientist (d.1983).
• Jacques Natanson, writer (d.1975).
• Louis Poterat, lyricist (d.1982).

Deaths

• 5 January - Pierre Potain, cardiologist (b.1825).
• January - Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist (b.1825).
• 9 February - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (b.1822).
• 9 September - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (b.1864).

Full date unknown

• Casimir Marie Gaudibert, astronomer and selenographer (b.1823).
• Ernest de Jonquières, mathematician (b.1820). Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel 10 January 1971

References