1902 in France
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Events from the year 1902 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Ãmile Loubet[1]
- President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (until 3 June), Emile Combes (starting 7 June)[1]
Events
- January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the crisis of modernism in the Catholic Church.
- 13 April â A new land speed record of 119 km/h (74 mph) is set in Nice by Leon Serpollet driving a steam car.
- 27 April â Legislative Election held.
- 8 May â 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique.
- 11 May â Legislative Election held.
- 24 August â A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the town which she stormed in 1429.
- 1 September â The first science fiction film, the trick film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premièred at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an immediate success.[2]
- 5 October â Thousands attend the funeral of the novelist Ãmile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. They include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.[3]
- The capital of French Indochina is moved from Saigon (in Cochinchina) to Hanoi (Tonkin).
- Claude Monet begins his Water Lilies series of paintings in his garden at Giverny.
Literature
Music
Births
JanuaryâJune
- 11 January â Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (died 1986)
- 13 January â Raymond Ruyer, philosopher (died 1987)
- 18 January â Ãmile Aillaud, architect (died 1988)
- 21 January â Agnès Souret, model, "la plus belle femme de France" (died 1928)
- 25 January â André Beaufre, colonel (died 1975)
- 29 January â Arlette Marchal, actress (died 1984)
- 8 February â André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (died 2004)
- 26 February â Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (died 1991)
- 9 March â Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (died 1945)
- 13 March â Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (died 1999)
- 14 March â Henri Barbé, communist (died 1966)
- 16 March â Louis Couffignal, mathematician and cybernetics pioneer (died 1966)
- 22 March â Madeleine Milhaud, actress (died 2008)
- 29 March â Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (died 1967)
- 4 April â Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (died 1969)
- 9 April â Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (died 2000)
- 3 May â Alfred Kastler, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
- 7 May â Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (died 2001)
- 8 May â André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (died 1994)[4]
- 27 May â Ãmile Benveniste, structural linguist (died 1976)
- 2 June â Georges Coudray, politician (died 1998)
- 15 June â Pierre Béarn, writer (died 2004)
- 28 June â Pierre Brunet, figure skater (died 1991)
JulyâDecember
- 6 July â Louis Vola, double bass player (died 1990)
- 16 July â Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (died 1989)
- 21 July â Georges Wambst, Olympic cyclist (died 1988)
- 9 August â Zino Francescatti, violinist (died 1991)
- 11 August â Christian de Castries, military officer (died 1991)
- 16 August â Gilbert Gérintès, rugby union player (died 1968)
- 24 August â Fernand Braudel, historian (died 1985)
- 28 August â Jean Favard, mathematician (died 1965)
- 15 October â André Prudhommeaux, anarchist bookstore owner (died 1968)
- 20 October â René Floriot, lawyer (died 1975).
- 31 October â Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (died 1970)
- 4 November â Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (died 1996)
- 16 November â Paul Bontemps, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1981)
- 20 November â Jean Painlevé, film director (died 1989)
- 25 December â Maurice Gallay, footballer (died 1982)
- 31 December â Marcel Bidot, cyclist (died 1995)
Full date unknown
- Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (died 1988)
Deaths
- 26 January- Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet (born 1847])
- 6 February â Clémence Royer, scholar (born 1830)
- 17 February â Marie-Louise Gagneur, feminist (born 1832)
- 12 April â Marie Alfred Cornu, physicist (born 1841)
- 15 April â Jules Dalou, sculptor (born 1838)
- 4 July â Hervé Faye, astronomer (born 1814)
- 8 August â James Tissot, painter (born 1836)
- 29 September â Ãmile Zola, writer (born 1840)
- 7 December â Pierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist (born 1830)
- Full date unknown â Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (born 1820)[5]