- 1904 in France
"See also:"
1903 in France ,
other events of 1904,1905 in France .----
Events from the year
1904 inFrance .Events
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8 April -Entente cordiale , a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.Arts and Literature
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2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
*24 July - Tour de France ends, won byHenri Cornet .Births
January to March
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13 January -Jean de Beaumont , sport shooter (d.2002).
*14 January -Henri-Georges Adam , engraver and sculptor (d.1967).
*15 February -Louis Robert , historian and author (d.1985).
*27 February -André Leducq , cyclist, twiceTour de France winner (d.1980).
*1 March -Paul Dubreil ,mathematician (d.1994).
*13 March -René Dumont , agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (d.2001).April to June
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8 April -Yves Congar ,priest and theologian (d.1995).
*12 April -Arsène Alancourt , cyclist (d.1965).
*21 April -Jean Hélion , painter and author (d.1987).
*25 April -René Cogny , General (d.1968).
*17 May -Jean Gabin , actor (d.1976).
*18 May -François Marty ,Roman Catholic Cardinal (d.1994).
*19 May -Daniel Guérin , anarchist and author (d.1988).
*25 May -Marcel Thil , world champion boxer (d.1968).
*8 June -Jean-Jérôme Adam , Roman CatholicArchbishop ofLibreville (d.1981).
*11 June -Gaston Charlot , chemist (d.1994).July to September
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2 July -René Lacoste , tennis player (d.1996).
*8 July -Henri Cartan , mathematician.
*24 July -Leo Arnaud , composer of film scores (d.1991).
*4 September -Christian-Jaque ,filmmaker (d.1994).
*18 September -Jean Dasté , actor and theatre director (d.1994).October to December
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8 October -Yves Giraud-Cabantous , motor racing driver (d.1973).
*13 October -Antoine Gilles Menier , businessman and municipal politician (d.1967).
*14 October -Christian Pineau ,French Resistance leader and politician (d.1995).
*12 November -Jacques Tourneur , film director (d.1977).
*22 November -Louis Eugène Félix Néel ,physicist , theNobel Prize forPhysics in 1970 (d.2000).
*6 December -Ève Curie , author and writer, daughter of Marie andPierre Curie (d.2007).
*12 December -Nicolas de Gunzburg , magazine editor (d.1981).
*21 December -Jean René Bazaine , painter,stained glass window designer and writer (d.2001).
*31 December -Charles Fauvel , aircraft designer (d.1979).Full date unknown
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Pierre Allain , climber (d.2000).
*Jean Berveiller ,composer andorganist (d.1976).
*Gabriel Loire ,stained glass artist (d.1996).
*Henri-Irénée Marrou , historian (d.1977).
*Raymond Molinier ,Trotskyist (d.1994).
*Pierre Naville ,writer andsociologist (d.1993).
*Georges Sadoul , journalist and cinema writer (d.1967).Deaths
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10 January -Jean-Léon Gérôme , painter and sculptor (b.1824).
*26 January -Émile Deschanel , author and politician (b.1819).
*19 May -Auguste Molinier , historian (b.1851).
*27 June -Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy ,archaeologist andnumismatist (b.1821).
*25 August -Henri Fantin-Latour , painter and lithographer (b.1836).
*23 September -Émile Gallé , artist (b.1846).
*4 October -Frédéric Bartholdi , sculptor, designer of theStatue of Liberty (b.1834).Full date unknown
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Marie Firmin Bocourt ,zoologist andartist (b.1819).
*Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac , journalist and politician (b.1843).References
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