- 1908 in France
"See also:"
1907 in France ,
other events of 1908,1909 in France .----
Events from the year
1908 inFrance .Events
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12 January - A long-distanceradio message is sent from theEiffel Tower for the first time.
*21 March -Henri Farman pilots the first passenger flight.port
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13 July - Tour de France begins.
*9 August - Tour de France ends, won byLucien Petit-Breton .Births
January to March
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9 January -Simone de Beauvoir , author and philosopher (d.1986).
*12 January -Jean Delannoy , actor, screenwriter and film director (d.2008).
*26 January -Stéphane Grappelli , jazz violinist (d.1997).
*31 January -Simone Mathieu , tennis player (d.1980).
*12 February -Jean Effel , painter, illustrator and journalist (d.1982).
*26 February -Jean-Pierre Wimille , motor racing driver and resistance member (d.1949).
*27 February - Pierre Brunet, rower and Olympic medallist (d.1979).
*29 February -Balthus , artist (d.2001).
*5 March -Christian Boussus , tennis player (d.2003).
*8 March -Raymond Dronne , politician (d.1991).
*14 March -Maurice Merleau-Ponty , phenomenologicalphilosopher (d.1961).
*20 March -Roger Trinquier , army officer (d.1986).
*25 March -Henri Rochereau , politician andEuropean Commissioner (d.1999).April to June
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12 April —André Martinet , linguist (d.1999).
*21 April -Louis Hostin , weightlifter and Olympic champion (d.1998).
*5 May -Jacques Massu , General (d.2002).
*29 May -Pierre-Henri Teitgen , lawyer, professor and politician (d.1997).
*30 May -André Cheuva , soccer player (d.1989).
*2 June -Marcel Langiller , international soccer player (d.1980).
*12 June -Henri Rol-Tanguy ,communist and leader in theFrench Resistance (d.2002).July to September
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2 July -Léon Arthur Elchinger , Bishop of Strasbourg (d.1998).
*5 July —Henri, comte de Paris ,Orléanist claimant to the French throne (d.1999).
*12 July -Alain Cuny , actor (d.1994).
*25 July -Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré , priest and author (d.2004).
*18 August -Edgar Faure , politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (d.1988).
*22 August -Henri Cartier-Bresson , photographer (d.2004).
*28 August -Robert Merle , novelist (d.2004).
*2 September -Fania Fénelon , pianist, composer and cabaret singer (d.1983).
*19 September -Paul Bénichou , writer, critic and literary historian (d.2001).
*19 September -Robert Lecourt , jurist, fourth President of theEuropean Court of Justice (d.2004).
*25 September -Jacqueline Audry ,film director (d.1977).
*25 September -Roger Beaufrand , Olympic gold medal winning cyclist (d.2007).October to December
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30 October -Marcel Béalu , writer (d.1993).
*1 November -Sylvia Bataille , actress (d.1993).
*16 November -Sœur Emmanuelle , nun and aid worker.
*19 November -Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur , organist and composer (d.2002).
*24 November -Simone de la Chaume , golfer (d.2001).
*10 December -Olivier Messiaen , composer, organist and ornithologist (d.1992).
*17 December -Raymond Louviot , cyclist (d.1969).
*31 December -Pauline de Rothschild , fashion icon and tastemaker (d.1976).Full date unknown
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Gilbert Degrémont ,water treatment expert (d.1974).
*Françoise Dolto ,physician andpsychoanalyst (d.1988).
*Célestin Lainé , Breton nationalist and collaborator (d.1983).
*Thierry Maulnier , journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (d.1988).
*Luc Etienne Périn , writer (d.1984).Deaths
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29 January -François-Marie-Benjamin Richard ,Archbishop of Paris (b.1819).
*7 May -Ludovic Halévy ,author andplaywright (b.1834).
*25 August -Henri Becquerel , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1852).
*14 November -Denis Jean Achille Luchaire ,historian (b.1846).
*27 November -Jean Albert Gaudry ,geologist andpalaeontologist (b.1827).
*5 December -Ernest Hébert , painter (b.1817).Full date unknown
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Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier ,classical scholar (b.1823).
*Victor André Cornil , pathologist (b.1837).
*Jacques-Eugene Feyen , painter (b.1815).References
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