1912 in France

See also: 1911 in France, other events of 1912, 1913 in France.

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Events from the year 1912 in France.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 4 Sport 5 Births 5.1 January to March 5.2 April to June 5.3 July to December 5.4 Full date unknown 6 Deaths 6.1 Full date unknown

Incumbents

Events

• 7 March - Aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours.
• 30 March - Treaty of Fez, Sultan Abdelhafid gives up the sovereignty of Morocco, making it a protectorate of France.
• 11 August - Sodomy becomes legal in France.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 30 June - The 10th Tour de France begins.
• 28 July - Tour de France ends, won by Odiel Defraye.

Births

January to March

• 6 January - Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (d.1994).
• 15 January - Michel Debré, politician and first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic (d.1996).
• 18 January - David Rousset, writer and political activist (d.1997).
• 3 February - Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist (d.1990).
• 7 February - Alfred Desenclos, composer (d.1971).
• 7 February - Amédée Fournier, cyclist (d.1992).
• 11 February - Jacques Corrèze, businessman and politician (d.1991).
• 12 February - Pierre Jaminet, cyclist (d.1968).
• 20 February - Pierre Boulle, novelist (d.1994).
• 28 March - Léon Damas, poet and politician (d.1978).

April to June

• 12 April - Georges Franju, filmmaker (d.1987).
• 14 April - Robert Doisneau, photographer (d.1994).
• 21 April - Marcel Camus, film director (d.1982).
• 28 April - Odette Sansom, World War II heroine (d.1995).
• 16 May - Alfred Aston, international soccer player (d.2003).
• 23 May - Jean Françaix, composer, pianist, and orchestrator (d.1997).
• 29 May - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (d.1994).
• 30 May - Roger Courtois, international soccer player (d.1972).
• 8 June - Roger Michelot, boxer (d.1993).
• 15 June - Alix Combelle, swing jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader (d.1978).
• 29 June - Lucie Aubrac, World War II Resistance fighter (d.2007).
• 29 June - Émile Peynaud, oenologist and researcher (d.2004).

July to December

• 18 July - Max Rousié (d. 1959), rugby league and rugby union footballer
• 5 August - Abbé Pierre, priest and founder of Emmaus movement (d.2007).
• 8 September - Marie-Dominique Philippe, Dominican philosopher and theologian (d.2006).
• 3 November - Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, member of the French Resistance (d.1996).
• 13 November - Claude Pompidou, philanthropist, wife of President of France Georges Pompidou (d.2007).
• 21 November - Pierre Grimal, historian and classicist (d.1996).

Full date unknown

• Gerard Albouy, milliner (d.1985).
• Jean Lescure, poet (d.2005).
• Albert Malet, painter (d.1986).
• Paul Petard, botanist (d.1980).

Deaths

• 14 April - Henri Brisson, statesman and Prime minister of France (b.1835).
• 12 June - Frédéric Passy, economist, joint winner (with Henry Dunant) of first Nobel Peace Prize, 1901 (b.1822).
• 17 July - Henri Poincaré, mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science (b.1854).

Full date unknown

• Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy, entomologist (b.1832).