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Events

13 April - A new car speed record of 74 mph 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.
George Melies performs play Voyage to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lume)

Births

January–June

11 January - Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (died 1986)
18 January - Émile Aillaud, architect (died 1988)
25 January - André Beaufre, colonel (died 1975)
29 January - Arlette Marchal, actress (died 1984)
8 February - André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (died 2004)
26 February - Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (died 1991)
9 March - Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (died 1945)
13 March - Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (died 1999)
14 March - Henri Barbé, communist (died 1966)
22 March - Madeleine Milhaud, actress (died 2008)
29 March - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (died 1967)
4 April - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (died 1969)
9 April - Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (died 2000)
3 May - Alfred Kastler, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
7 May - Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (died 2001)
8 May - André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (died 1994)
2 June - Georges Coudray, politician (died 1998)
15 June - Pierre Béarn, writer (died 2004)
28 June - Pierre Brunet, figure skater (died 1991)

July–December

6 July - Louis Vola, double bass player (died 1990)
16 July - Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (died 1989)
9 August - Zino Francescatti, violinist (died 1991)
11 August - Christian de Castries, military officer (died 1991)
16 August - Gilbert Gérintès, rugby union player (died 1968)
24 August - Fernand Braudel, historian (died 1985)
20 October - René Floriot, lawyer (died 1975).
31 October - Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (died 1970)
4 November - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (died 1996)
16 November - Paul Bontemps, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1981)
20 November - Jean Painlevé, film director (died 1989)
31 December - Marcel Bidot, cyclist (died 1995)

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

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

Full date unknown

Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (born 1820)

References

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