1909 in France

See also: 1908 in France, other events of 1909, 1910 in France.

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Events from the year 1909 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Sport 3 Births 3.1 January to March 3.2 April to June 3.3 July to September 3.4 October to December 3.5 Full date unknown 4 Deaths 5 References

Events

• 20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro.
• 18 April - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• 25 July - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.

Sport

• 5 July - Tour de France begins.
• 1 August - Tour de France ends, won by François Faber of Luxembourg.

Births

January to March

• 3 February - André Cayatte, filmmaker (d.1989).
• 3 February - Simone Weil, philosopher and social activist (d.1943).
• 10 February - Henri Alekan, cinematographer (d.2001).
• 7 March - Léo Malet, novelist (d.1996).
• 14 March - Pierre Cloarec, cyclist (d.1994).
• 14 March - André Pieyre de Mandiargues, writer (d.1991).
• 31 March - Robert Brasillach, author, executed for collaboration (d.1945).

April to June

• 7 April - Robert Charroux, writer (d.1978).
• 17 April - Alain Poher, politician (d.1996).
• 22 April - André Girard, civil servant and Resistance worker (d.1993).
• 11 May - René Bousquet, civil servant, served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police (d.1993).
• 21 May - Guy de Rothschild, banker (d.2007).
• 17 June - Régine Pernoud, historian and medievalist (d.1998).
• 19 June - Robert Défossé, soccer player (d.1973).

July to September

• 6 July - Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist (d.1977).
• 8 July - Louis Finot, international soccer player (d.1996).
• 13 July - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (d.1977).
• 15 July - Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist (d.1992).
• 26 July - Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician (d.1992).
• 5 August - Pierre Guillaumat, politician and Minister (d.1991).
• 11 August - Gaston Litaize, organist and composer (d.1991).
• 25 September - Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, film director, script-writer, playwright and author (d.1985).
• 27 September - Pascal Themanlys, poet, zionist, and Kabbalist (d.2000).
• 29 September - Jules Merviel, cyclist (d.1976).
• September - Henri Déricourt, pilot and accused double agent (d.1962).

October to December

• 11 October - François Tanguy-Prigent, politician and resistance fighter (d.1970).
• 5 November - Pierre Repp, humorist and actor (d.1986).
• 29 November - Jean Leguay, civil servant, accomplice of the Deportation of Jews from France (d.1989).
• 2 December - Pierre Langlais, military officer (d.1988).

Full date unknown

• Marcel Barral, poet (d.1997).
• Claude Bourdet, writer, journalist and politician (d.1996).
• Claude Cahen, orientalist (d.1991).
• Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French Resistance leader (b.1989).
• Pierre La Mure, author (d.1976).
• Raymond Oliver, chef and restaurateur (d.1990).
• Michel Tapié, artist, critic, curator and art collector (d.1987).
• Pauline Trigère, fashion designer (d.2002).

Deaths

• 18 March - Cécile Bruyère, abbess (b.1845).
• 28 May - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (b.1840).

References