1906 in France

See also: 1905 in France, other events of 1906, 1907 in France.

Events from the year 1906 in France.

Events

• 16 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
• 10 March - Explosion in coal mine in Courrières kills 1099.
• 7 April - Final agreement from Algeciras Conference is signed.
• 6 May - Legislative Election held.
• 20 May - Legislative Election held.
• 12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated.
• 21 July - Dreyfus is reinstalled in the French Army 21 July, ending the Dreyfus Affair.
• 23 October - Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft performs the first publicly witnessed European unaided take-off by a heavier-than-air aircraft, in Bagatelle.

Sport

• 4 July - Tour de France begins.
• 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by René Pottier.

Births

January to June

• 5 January - Pierre Seghers, poet and editor (died 1987).
• 21 February - Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (died 1988).
• 8 March - Louis Peglion, cyclist (died 1986).
• 9 March - Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (died 1990).
• 18 March - Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (died 1967).
• 25 March - Jean Sablon, singer and actor (died 1994).
• 26 March - Henri Cadiou, painter and lithographer (died 1989).
• 2 April - Armand Barbault, chemist and alchemist (died 1982).
• 2 April - Maurice Thiriet, composer (died 1972).
• 6 May - André Weil, mathematician (died 1998).
• 7 June - Alexandre Renard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1983).
• 24 June - Pierre Fournier, cellist (died 1986).

July to September

• 1 July - Jean Dieudonné, mathematician (died 1992).
• 7 July - Charles Vaurie, ornithologist (died 1975).
• 27 July - Roger Duchesne, actor (died 1996).
• 30 July - Alex Thépot, international soccer player (died 1989).
• 18 August - Marcel Carné, film director (died 1996).
• 6 September - Luis Federico Leloir, doctor and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1987).
• 12 September - Jacques Lacarrière, ice hockey player (died 2005).
• 30 September - Mireille Hartuch, singer, composer and actress (died 1996).

October to December

• 3 October - Raymond Triboulet, resistance fighter and politician (died 2006).
• 7 November - Jean Leray, mathematician (died 1998).
• 7 November - Pierre Magne, cyclist (died 1980).
• 14 November - Claude Ménard, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1980).
• 16 November - Henri Charrière, convicted felon and author (died 1973).
• 10 December - Jules Ladoumègue, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1973).
• 27 December - Andreas Feininger, French-born German-American photographer (died 1999).

Full date unknown

• Ferdinand Alquié, philosopher (died 1985).
• Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (died 1990).
• Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (died 1994).
• Bernard Lefebvre, photographer (died 1992).
• Jacques Leguerney, composer (died 1997).

Deaths

• 1 April - Léon Fairmaire, entomologist (born 1820).
• 19 April - Pierre Curie, physicist, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics (born 1859).
• 5 July - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter (born 1827).
• 26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat (born 1846).
• 22 October - Paul Cézanne, painter (born 1839).
• 5 September - Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (born 1839).
• 9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic (born 1849).

Full date unknown

• Léon Gastinel, composer (born 1813).
• Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (born 1819).

References