1941 in France

"See also:"
1940 in France,
other events of 1941,
1942 in France.

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Events from the year 1941 in France.

Events

*17 January - Battle of Koh Chang. Decisive victory by the French over the Thai Navy.
*3 February - The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
*9 May - French-Thai War ends
*8 June - Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon begins, the Syria-Lebanon Campaign.
*9 June - Battle of the Litani River.
*13 June - Battle of Jezzine.
*15 June - Battle of Kissoué begins.
*17 June - Battle of Kissoué ends with Allied victory.
*18 June - Battle of Damascus begins.
*19 June - Battle of Merdjayoun starts.
*21 June - Battle of Damascus ends, with the Allies taking Damascus.
*24 June - Battle of Merdjayoun ends.
*1 July - Battle of Palmyra. Vichy garrison at Palmyra surrenders.
*3 July - Battle of Deir ez-Zor. Allied victory over Vichy French.
*5 July - Battle of Damour begins.
*9 July - Battle of Damour ends, with Allied victory over Vichy French.
*14 July - Vichy France signs armistice terms ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
*22 August - German Occupation Authority announces that anyone found either working for or aiding the Free French will be sentenced to death.
*27 August - Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at Versailles.
*24 November - The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
*12 December - United States seizes French ship Normandie.

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*25 May - Coupe de France Football Final won by Girondins ASP.

Births

*2 January - Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, soccer player and manager (d.2002).
*13 April - Jean-Marc Reiser, comics creator (d.1983).
*20 May - Raymond Forni, Socialist politician (d.2008).
*25 May - Jean-Pierre Hubert, author (d.2006).
*17 July - Gribouille, singer (d.1968).
*1 August - Étienne Roda-Gil, songwriter and screenwriter (d.2004).
*26 October - François Duprat, negationist writer (d.1978).

Full date unknown

*Daniel Bernard, diplomat (d.2004).

Deaths

*4 January - Henri Bergson, philosopher (b.1859).
*16 April - Émile Bernard, painter (b.1868).
*26 July - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (b.1875).
*14 August - Paul Sabatier, chemist, shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (b.1854).
*6 November - Maurice Leblanc, novelist and short story writer (b.1864).

Full date unknown

*Jacques Curie, physicist (b.1856).

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