1906 in France

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

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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.

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

July to September

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

October to December

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

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

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

Full date unknown

*Léon Gastinel, composer (b.1813).
*Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (b.1819).

References