1900 in France

"See also:"
1899 in France,
other events of 1900,
1901 in France.

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Events from the year 1900 in France.

Events

*31 March - The length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
*1 April - Every French policeman is assigned to carry a gun.
*14 April - Paris World Exhibition opens.
*21 April - Battle of Kousséri takes place in Chad, linking all French possessions in Western Africa.
*27 June - Treaty of Paris is signed between the Spanish Empire and the French Empire by which Río Muni was relieved of all conflicting claims.
*19 July - The first line of the Métro is inaugurated in Paris.

Arts and Literature

*2 February - First performance of Gustave Charpentier's opera, "Louise".

port

*Olympic Games held in Paris.

Births

January to March

*3 January - Marcel Gobillot, cyclist and Olympic medallist (d.1981).
*5 January - Yves Tanguy, surrealist painter (d.1955).
*9 January - Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, journalist, politician and French Resistance member (d.1969).
*11 January - Benoît Fauré, cyclist (d.1980).
*4 February - Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (d.1977).
*11 February - Raymond Cambefort, one of the last three fully verified World War I veterans living in France (d.2008).
*21 February - Madeleine Renaud, actress (d.1994).
*6 March - Henri Jeanson, writer and journalist (d.1970).
*8 March - Pierre David-Weill, investment banker (d.1975).
*19 March - Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate (d.1958).

April to June

*13 April - Pierre Molinier, painter and photographer (d.1976).
*15 April - Pierre Nord, writer, spy and resistance member (d.1985).
*28 April - Maurice Thorez, communist politician (d.1964).
*28 April - Jean Vaysse, rugby union player (d.1974).
*17 May - Achille Souchard, cyclist (d.1976).
*22 May - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d.1979).
*14 June - Roger Bourdin, baritone (d.1973).
*29 June - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and writer (d.1944).

July to December

*4 July - Robert Desnos, surrealist poet (d.1945).
*12 July - Marcel Paul, trade unionist and communist politician (d.1982).
*17 July - Marcel Dalio, actor (d.1983).
*19 July - Pierre Coquelin de Lisle, sport shooter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1980).
*26 July - Jacques Février, pianist (d.1979).
*6 September - Marc Bernard, writer (d.1983).
*30 September - Pierre Yvert, philatelic editor (d.1964).
*9 October - Henri Lauvaux, athlete and Olympic medallist (d.1970).
*13 October - Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget, actress and Princess of Monaco (d.1991).
*November - Émile Gagnan, engineer and inventor (d.1979).
*15 December - Hellé Nice, model, dancer and motor racing driver (d.1984).

Full date unknown

*Jacques Adnet, designer, architect and interior designer (d.1984).
*Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett (d.1989).
*René Guillot, author (d.1969).
*Marcel Légaut, philosopher and mathematician (d.1990).
*Georges Limbour, writer (d.1970).
*Georges Neveux, dramatist and poet (d.1982).

Deaths

*11 February - Émile Blanchard, zoologist and entomologist (b.1819).
*19 March - Charles-Louis Hanon, piano pedagogue and composer (b.1819).
*5 April - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician (b.1822).
*22 April - Amédée-François Lamy, military officer (b.1858).
*18 May - Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, philosopher and archaeologist (b.1813).
*16 June - François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville, admiral (b.1818).
*24 September - Louis Ratisbonne, writer and man of letters (b.1827).
*13 October - Louis Adolphe Cochery, politician and journalist (b.1819).

Full date unknown

*Jules Adenis, dramatist and opera librettist (b.1823).
*Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, colonial administrator (b.1825).

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