1913 in France

"See also:"
1912 in France,
other events of 1913,
1914 in France.

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Events from the year 1913 in France.

Events

*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

*29 May - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score "The Rite of Spring" is premiered in Paris.
*12 December - Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell "Mona Lisa" in Florence and is arrested.
*30 December - Italy returns "Mona Lisa" to France.

port

*29 June - Tour de France begins.
*27 July - Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.

Births

January to March

*5 January - Pierre Veuillot, Cardinal (d.1968).
*24 February - François Bourbotte, soccer player (d.1972).
*27 February - Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (d.2005).
*3 March - Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (d.1978).
*12 March - Max Leognany, artist (d.1994).
*18 March - René Clément, screenwriter and film director (d.1996).
*26 March - Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (d.1970).
*26 March - Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist.
*28 March - Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (d.2001).

April to June

*14 April - Jean Fournet, conductor.
*18 May - Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (d.2001).
*26 May - Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (d.2005).
*26 May - André Lalande, officer (d.1995).
*9 June - Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (d.1978).
*18 June - Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (d.2008).
*26 June - Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (d.2008).

July to December

*12 July - Roger Testu, cartoonist (d.2008).
*13 July - Fabien Galateau, cyclist (d.1995).
*17 July - Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher.
*July - Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (d.1981).
*31 August - Jacques Foccart, politician (d.1997).
*10 October - Claude Simon, novelist, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature (d.2005).
*7 November - Albert Camus, author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize in 1957 (d.1960).
*20 November - Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (d.2006).
*11 December - Jean Marais, actor (d.1998).

Full date unknown

*Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (d.2004).
*René Herse, bicycle constructor (d.1976).
*Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (d.1988).
*Pierre Probst, cartoonist (d.2007).
*Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (d.1983).

Deaths

*2 January - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (b.1855).
*20 August - Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (b.1825).
*6 September - Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (b.1853).
*15 November - Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (b.1832).

Full date unknown

*Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (b.1848).

References