1901 in France

Events from the year 1901 in France.

Events

17 March - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

1 January - The French rugby team plays its first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks.

1 January - Marcel Balsa, motor racing driver (died 1984).
8 January - Eugène Constant, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1971).
19 January - Henri Daniel-Rops, writer and historian (died 1965).
24 January - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, painter, commercial poster artist and typeface designer (died 1968).
20 February
- Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1977).
- René Dubos, microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist and humanist (died 1982).
21 February
- Albert Dupouy, rugby union player (died 1973).
- Pierre Lewden, athlete (died 1989).
17 March - Alexandre Bioussa, rugby union player (died 1966).
26 March - Maurice Dorléac, actor (died 1979).

7 April - André Trocmé, pastor who aided Jewish refugees (died 1971).
8 April - Jean Prouvé, architect and designer (died 1984).
13 April - Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor (died 1981).
15 April - René Pleven, politician (died 1993).
20 April - Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (died 1990).
24 April - René Le Hénaff, film editor and director (died 2005).
15 May - Jacques Natanson, writer (died 1975).
18 May- Henri Sauguet, composer (died 1989).
25 May
- Jean Borthayre, operatic baritone (died 1984).
- André Girard, painter, poster-maker and Resistance member (died 1968).
31 May - Charles Brunier, convicted murderer and veteran of the First and Second World Wars who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon (died 2007).
16 June - Henri Lefebvre, sociologist and philosopher (died 1991).
24 June - Marcel Mule, classical saxophonist (died 2001).
26 June - Jean Boyer, film director and author (died 1965).

20 July - Gaston Waringhien, linguist, lexicographer and Esperantist (died 1991).
31 July - Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (died 1985).
5 August - Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP (died 2000).
17 August - Henri Tomasi, composer and conductor (died 1971).
18 August — Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (died 1999).
19 August - René Capitant, lawyer and politician (died 1970).
27 August - Pierre Villon, member of the French Communist Party and of the French Resistance (died 1980).
29 August - Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore (died 1977).
8 September - Jacques Perret, writer (died 1992).
16 September
- Andrée Brunet, figure skater (died 1993).
- Louis Joxe, statesman and Minister (died 1991).
25 September — Robert Bresson, film director (died 1999).

3 October - François Le Lionnais, chemical engineer and mathematician (died 1984).
12 October - Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Cardinal (died 1994).
3 November - André Malraux, author, adventurer and statesman (died 1976).
14 December - Henri Cochet, tennis player (died 1987).

January - Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist (born 1825).
5 January - Pierre Potain, cardiologist (born 1825).
13 January - Gaspard Adolphe Chatin, sician, mycologist and botanist (born 1813)
16 January - Jules Barbier, poet and librettist (born 1825)
9 February - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (born 1822).
17 March - Jean Charles Cazin, landscape painter and ceramicist (born 1840)
29 March - Xavier Barbier de Montault, theologian (born 1830)
9 June - Casimir Marie Gaudibert, astronomer and selenographer (born 1823).
12 August - Ernest de Jonquières, mathematician (born 1820).
17 August - Edmond Audran, composer (born 1840)
9 September - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (born 1864).
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- Henriette Browne, painter and traveller (born 1829)
- Charles Jalabert, painter (born 1819)

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