1907 in France

"See also:"
1906 in France,
other events of 1907,
1908 in France.

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Events from the year 1907 in France.

Events

*February - The French warship "Jean Bart" sinks off the coast of Morocco.
*March - The French warship "Jena" is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.

port

*8 July - Tour de France begins.
*4 August - Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Petit-Breton.

Births

January to March

*11 January - Pierre Mendès France, politician and Prime Minister of France (d.1982).
*24 January — Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (d.1999).
*5 February - Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister (d.2000).
*15 February - Célestin Delmer, international soccer player (d.1996).
*15 February - Jean Langlais, composer and organist (d.1991).
*22 March - Roger Blin, comedian and actor (d.1984).

April to June

*7 April - Violette Leduc, author (d.1972).
*12 April - Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver (d.1983).
*15 April - Jean Fourastié, economist (d.1990).
*29 April - Tino Rossi, singer and actor (d.1983).
*23 May - Ginette Mathiot, food writer (d.1998).
*26 May - Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (d.2006).
*30 May - Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (d.2008).
*12 June - Émile Veinante, soccer player and coach (d.1983).
*14 June - René Char, poet (d.1988).
*17 June - Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (d.1990).

July to September

*7 July - Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (d.1988).
*5 August - Eugène Guillevic, poet (d.1997).
*7 September - Roland Mousnier, historian (d.1993).
*22 September - Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (d.2003).
*23 September - Anne Desclos, journalist and novelist (d.1998).

October to December

*1 October - Maurice Bardèche, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist (d.1998).
*4 October - Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (d.1994).
*5 October - Jean Louis, costume designer (d.1997).
*8 October - Pierre Bertaux, Germanist (d.1986).
*9 October - Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker (d.1982).
*13 October - Yves Allégret, film director (d.1987).
*17 October - Marcel Barbu, politician (d.1984).
*29 October - Edwige Feuillère, actress (d.1998).
*1 November - Paul Bacon, politician (d.1999).
*1 November - Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (d.1990).
*3 November - Raymond Bussières, actor (d.1982).
*6 November - Raymond Savignac, graphic artist (d.2002).
*18 November - Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (d.1994).
*19 November - Fernand Cornez, cyclist (d.1997).
*20 November - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (d.1977).
*30 November - Jacques Barzun, historian.
*10 December - Daniel Barbier, astronomer (d.1965).
*10 December - Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (d.2005).
*16 December - Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General (d.1986).
*24 December - André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist (d.1986).

Full date unknown

*Jean Beaufret, philosopher and Germanist (d.1982).
*Jean Hyppolite, philosopher (d.1968).
*Henri Michel, historian (d.1986).
*Marcel Simon, historian (d.1986).
*Roger Vailland, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (d.1965).

Deaths

*20 January - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (b.1839).
*25 January - René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (b.1879).
*16 February - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (b.1817).
*20 February - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1852).
*21 February - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (b.1827).
*11 March - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (b.1847).
*18 March - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (b.1827).
*12 May - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (b.1848).
*13 July - Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (b.1843).
*6 September - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (b.1839).
*21 September - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (b.1827).

Full date unknown

*Théobald Chartran, painter (b.1849).

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