1913 in France
Events from the year 1913 in France.
Events
- 17 January - Raymond Poincaré is elected president
- 3 February - Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.
- 20 August - 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegond jumps from an airplane and lands safely.
- 23 September - Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean.
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
January to March
- 5 January - Pierre Veuillot, Cardinal (died 1968).
- 17 February - Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (died 2004).
- 24 February - François Bourbotte, soccer player (died 1972).
- 27 February - Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (died 2005).
- 3 March - Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (died 1978).
- 12 March - Max Leognany, artist (died 1994).
- 18 March - René Clément, screenwriter and film director (died 1996).
- 26 March - Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (died 1970).
- 26 March - Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist.
- 28 March - Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (died 2001).
April to June
- 14 April - Jean Fournet, conductor.
- 18 May - Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (died 2001).
- 26 May
- Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (died 2005).
- André Lalande, officer (died 1995).
- 9 June - Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (died 1978).
- 18 June - Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (died 2008).
- 26 June - Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (died 2008).
July to December
- 12 July - Roger Testu, cartoonist (died 2008).
- 13 July - Fabien Galateau, cyclist (died 1995).
- 17 July - Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher.
- July - Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (died 1981).
- 31 August - Jacques Foccart, politician (died 1997).
- 10 October - Claude Simon, novelist, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature (died 2005).
- 7 November - Albert Camus, author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize in 1957 (died 1960).
- 20 November - Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (died 2006).
- 29 November - Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 1983).
- 11 December - Jean Marais, actor (died 1998).
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Deaths
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