1897 in France

See also: 1896 in France, 1898 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.

Arts and literature

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

Births

January to June

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

July to September

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

October to December

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

Full date unknown

• Aimée Antoinette Camus, botanist (died 1965).
• Norbert Casteret, caver and adventurer (died 1987).
• Martha Desrumeaux, militant communist and member of the French Resistance (died 1982).
• Georges Périnal, cinematographer (died 1965).
• Michel Saint-Denis, actor, theatre director, and drama theorist (died 1971).

Deaths

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

Full date unknown

• Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (born 1819).
• Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard, general (born 1821).
• Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician (born 1836).
• François-Louis Français, painter (born 1814).
• Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (born 1819).
• Louis Pierre Mouillard, engineer (born 1834).

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