1908 in France

"See also:"
1907 in France,
other events of 1908,
1909 in France.

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Events from the year 1908 in France.

Events

*12 January - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
*21 March - Henri Farman pilots the first passenger flight.

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

Births

January to March

*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, phenomenological philosopher (d.1961).
*20 March - Roger Trinquier, army officer (d.1986).
*25 March - Henri Rochereau, politician and European Commissioner (d.1999).

April to June

*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 the French Resistance (d.2002).

July to September

*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 the European 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

*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

*Gilbert Degrémont, water treatment expert (d.1974).
*Françoise Dolto, physician and psychoanalyst (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

*29 January - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, Archbishop of Paris (b.1819).
*7 May - Ludovic Halévy, author and playwright (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 and palaeontologist (b.1827).
*5 December - Ernest Hébert, painter (b.1817).

Full date unknown

*Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier, classical scholar (b.1823).
*Victor André Cornil, pathologist (b.1837).
*Jacques-Eugene Feyen, painter (b.1815).

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