1904 in France

See also: 1903 in France, other events of 1904, 1905 in France.

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Events from the year 1904 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

• 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
• 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Henri Cornet.

Births

January to March

• 13 January - Jean de Beaumont, sport shooter (d.2002).
• 14 January - Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (d.1967).
• 15 February - Louis Robert, historian and author (d.1985).
• 27 February - André Leducq, cyclist, twice Tour de France winner (d.1980).
• 1 March - Paul Dubreil, mathematician (d.1994).
• 13 March - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (d.2001).

April to June

• 8 April - Yves Congar, priest and theologian (d.1995).
• 12 April - Arsène Alancourt, cyclist (d.1965).
• 21 April - Jean Hélion, painter and author (d.1987).
• 25 April - René Cogny, General (d.1968).
• 17 May - Jean Gabin, actor (d.1976).
• 18 May - François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (d.1994).
• 19 May - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (d.1988).
• 25 May - Marcel Thil, world champion boxer (d.1968).
• 8 June - Jean-Jérôme Adam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Libreville (d.1981).
• 11 June - Gaston Charlot, chemist (d.1994).

July to September

• 2 July - René Lacoste, tennis player (d.1996).
• 8 July - Henri Cartan, mathematician.
• 24 July - Leo Arnaud, composer of film scores (d.1991).
• 4 September - Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (d.1994).
• 7 September - Henri Pinault, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengdu (d.1987).
• 18 September - Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (d.1994).

October to December

• 8 October - Yves Giraud-Cabantous, motor racing driver (d.1973).
• 13 October - Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (d.1967).
• 14 October - Christian Pineau, French Resistance leader and politician (d.1995).
• 12 November - Jacques Tourneur, film director (d.1977).
• 22 November - Louis 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).
• 21 December - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (d.2001).
• 31 December - Charles Fauvel, aircraft designer (d.1979).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Allain, climber (d.2000).
• Jean Berveiller, composer and organist (d.1976).
• Gabriel Loire, stained glass artist (d.1996).
• Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (d.1977).
• Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (d.1994).
• Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (d.1993).
• Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (d.1967).

Deaths

• 10 January - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (b.1824).
• 26 January - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (b.1819).
• 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).

Full date unknown

• Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (b.1819).
• Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (b.1843).

References