1897 in France

Events from the year 1897 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

4 May â Bazar de la CharitÃ© Fire.
9 December â First issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published^[3] by Marguerite Durand.
28 December â The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
Alexandre Darracq begins manufacture of motor vehicles at A. Darracq et Cie in the Paris suburb of Suresnes.
Women are admitted to study at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts.
At Giverny, Claude Monet begins painting his Water Lilies series, which will continue until the end of his life.

21 January â RenÃ© IchÃ©, sculptor (died 1954)
30 March â Raymond Borderie, film producer (died 1982)
4 April â Pierre Fresnay, actor (died 1975)
1 May â AimÃ©e Antoinette Camus, botanist (died 1965)
27 May â Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist (died 1985)

3 July â Charles Tillon, politician (died 1993)
12 July â Maurice Tabard, surrealist photographer (died 1984)
25 July â AndrÃ© Muffang, chess master (died 1989)
2 August â Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (died 1990)
15 August â Ludovic Arrachart, aviator (died 1933)
19 August â Norbert Casteret, caver and adventurer (died 1987)
10 September â Georges Bataille, writer (died 1962)
12 September
- Pierre Courant, politician (died 1965)
- IrÃ¨ne Joliot-Curie, scientist, shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 (died 1956)
13 September â Michel Saint-Denis, actor, theatre director, and drama theorist (died 1971)

3 October â Louis Aragon, poet and novelist (died 1982)
16 October â Louis de Cazenave, at the time of his death, the oldest French poilu still alive (died 2008)
18 October â Martha Desrumeaux, militant communist and member of the French Resistance (died 1982)
24 November â FranÃ§ois Ducaud-Bourget, priest (died 1984)
7 December â Lazare Ponticelli, last surviving official French veteran of the First World War (died 2008)
20 December â Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (died 1972)
25 December â NoÃ«l Delberghe, water polo player and Olympic medallist (died 1965)

13 January â Charles Brun, naval engineer (born 1821)
20 March â Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (born 1819)
18 May â FranÃ§ois-Louis FranÃ§ais, painter (born 1814)
30 May â Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (born 1819)
19 June â Louis BriÃ¨re de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (born 1827)
5 July â Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian (born 1818)
6 July â Henri Meilhac, dramatist and opera librettist (born 1830)
20 September â Louis Pierre Mouillard, aeronautical engineer (born 1834)
6 November â Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1817)
14 November â Thomas W. Evans, dentist (born 1823 in the United States)^[4]
6 December â Oscar Bardi de Fourtou, politician (born 1836)
16 December â Alphonse Daudet, novelist (born 1840)