1902 in France

"See also:"
1901 in France,
other events of 1902,
1903 in France.

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Events from the year 1902 in France.

Events

*13 April - A new car speed record of 74mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.
*27 April - Legislative Election held.
*11 May - Legislative Election held.

Arts and Literature

*January - Alfred Loisy writes "L'évangile et l'Eglise", which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.

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Births

January to March

*11 January - Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (d.1986).
*18 January - Émile Aillaud, architect (d.1988).
*25 January - André Beaufre, colonel (d.1975).
*29 January - Arlette Marchal, actress (d.1984).
*8 February - André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (d.2004).
*26 February - Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (d.1991).
*9 March - Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (d.1945).
*13 March - Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (d.1999).
*14 March - Henri Barbé, communist (d.1966).
*22 March - Madeleine Milhaud, actress (d.2008).
*29 March - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (d.1967).

April to June

*4 April - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (d.1969).
*9 April - Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (d.2000).
*3 May - Alfred Kastler, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate (d.1984).
*7 May - Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (d.2001).
*8 May - André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (d.1994).
*2 June - Georges Coudray, politician (d.1998).
*15 June - Pierre Béarn, writer (d.2004).
*28 June - Pierre Brunet, figure skater (d.1991).

July to September

*6 July - Louis Vola, double bass player (d.1990).
*16 July - Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (d.1989).
*9 August - Zino Francescatti, violinist (d.1991).
*11 August - Christian de Castries, military officer (d.1991).
*16 August - Gilbert Gérintès, rugby union player (d.1968).
*24 August - Fernand Braudel, historian (d.1985).

October to December

*20 October - René Floriot, lawyer (d.1975).
*31 October - Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (d.1970).
*4 November - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (d.1996).
*16 November - Paul Bontemps, athlete and Olympic medallist (d.1981).
*20 November - Jean Painlevé, film director (d.1989).
*31 December - Marcel Bidot, cyclist (d.1995).

Full date unknown

*Émile Benveniste, structural linguist (d.1976).
*Louis Couffignal, mathematician and cybernetics pioneer (d.1966).
*Jean Favard, mathematician (d.1965).
*Andre Prudhommeaux, anarchist bookstore owner (d.1968).
*Raymond Ruyer, philosopher (d.1987).
*Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (d.1988).

Deaths

*4 July - Hervé Faye, astronomer (b.1814).
*8 August - James Tissot, painter (b.1836).
*29 September - Émile Zola, writer (b.1840).

Full date unknown

*Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (b.1820).

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