1907 in France

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Events from the year 1907 in France.

Events

2 January - Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifix in schools
February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
March - The French warship Jena is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
ESSEC Business School is founded
6 April - Louis Blériot flies his new monoplane ten yards.
10 April - French doctors announce the discovery of a new serum to cure dysentery.
18 April - Georges Clemenceau orders sacking of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest.
17 May - Several thousand riot in support of local wine growers at Beizers south of France.
9 June - Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's combined aeroplane and airship is wrecked in its first trial
28 June - Georges Clemenceau wins a majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
12 July - Major Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his rehablitiation.
14 July - President Armand Fallières narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
18 December - Louis Blériot's demonstrations of his new aeroplane at Issy end in its destruction.

11 January - Pierre Mendès France, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1982).
24 January — Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (died 1999).
5 February - Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister (died 2000).
15 February - Célestin Delmer, international soccer player (died 1996).
15 February - Jean Langlais, composer and organist (died 1991).
22 March - Roger Blin, comedian and actor (died 1984).

7 April - Violette Leduc, author (died 1972).
12 April - Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver (died 1983).
15 April - Jean Fourastié, economist (died 1990).
29 April - Tino Rossi, singer and actor (died 1983).
23 May - Ginette Mathiot, food writer (died 1998).
26 May - Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (died 2006).
30 May - Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (died 2008).
12 June - Émile Veinante, soccer player and coach (died 1983).
14 June - René Char, poet (died 1988).
17 June - Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (died 1990).

7 July - Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (died 1988).
5 August - Eugène Guillevic, poet (died 1997).
7 September - Roland Mousnier, historian (died 1993).
22 September - Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (died 2003).
23 September - Anne Desclos, journalist and novelist (died 1998).

1 October - Maurice Bardèche, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist (died 1998).
4 October - Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (died 1994).
5 October - Jean Louis, costume designer (died 1997).
8 October - Pierre Bertaux, Germanist (died 1986).
9 October - Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker (died 1982).
13 October - Yves Allégret, film director (died 1987).
17 October - Marcel Barbu, politician (died 1984).
29 October - Edwige Feuillère, actress (died 1998).
1 November - Paul Bacon, politician (died 1999).
1 November - Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (died 1990).
3 November - Raymond Bussières, actor (died 1982).
6 November - Raymond Savignac, graphic artist (died 2002).
18 November - Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (died 1994).
19 November - Fernand Cornez, cyclist (died 1997).
20 November - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977).
30 November - Jacques Barzun, historian.
10 December - Daniel Barbier, astronomer (died 1965).
10 December - Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (died 2005).
16 December - Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General (died 1986).
24 December - André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist (died 1986).

20 January - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (born 1839).
25 January - René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (born 1879).
16 February - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (born 1817).
20 February - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852).
21 February - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (born 1827).
11 March - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (born 1847).
18 March - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (born 1827).
12 May - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (born 1848).
13 July - Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (born 1843).
6 September - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (born 1839).
21 September - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (born 1827).
1 November - Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist (born 1873).

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