1907 in France

Events from the year 1907 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

2 January â Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifixes in schools
11 February â The French cruiser Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
March â ESSEC Business School is founded.
12 March â The French battleship IÃ©na blows up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
6 April â Louis BlÃ©riot flies his new monoplane ten yards.
10 April â French doctors announce the discovery of a new serum to cure dysentery.
18 April â Georges Clemenceau orders dismissal of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest.
17 May â Several thousand riot during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers at BÃ©ziers in the south of France.
9 June â Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's combined aeroplane and airship is wrecked in its first trial
28 June â Georges Clemenceau wins a majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
12 July â Major Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his rehabilitation.
14 July â President Armand FalliÃ¨res narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
10 August â Peking to Paris motor race concludes.
18 December â Louis BlÃ©riot's demonstrations of his new aeroplane at Issy end in its destruction.

8 January â Jean Hyppolite, philosopher (died 1968)
11 January â Pierre MendÃ¨s France, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1982)
24 January â Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (died 1999)
5 February â Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister (died 2000)
15 February
- CÃ©lestin Delmer, international soccer player (died 1996)
- Jean Langlais, composer and organist (died 1991)
22 March â Roger Blin, comedian and actor (died 1984)

7 April â Violette Leduc, author (died 1972)
10 April â Marcel Simon, historian (died 1986)
12 April â EugÃ¨ne Chaboud, motor racing driver (died 1983)
15 April â Jean FourastiÃ©, economist (died 1990)
28 April â Henri Michel, historian (died 1986)
29 April â Tino Rossi, singer and actor (died 1983)
22 May â Jean Beaufret, philosopher and Germanist (died 1982)
23 May â Ginette Mathiot, food writer (died 1998)
26 May â Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (died 2006)
30 May â Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (died 2008)
12 June â Ãmile Veinante, soccer player and coach (died 1983)
14 June â RenÃ© Char, poet (died 1988)
17 June â Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (died 1990)
24 June â Jean Schlumberger, jewelry designer (died 1987)

7 July â Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (died 1988)
5 August â EugÃ¨ne Guillevic, poet (died 1997)
7 September â Roland Mousnier, historian (died 1993)
22 September â Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (died 2003)
23 September â Anne Desclos, journalist and novelist (died 1998)^[1]

1 October â Maurice BardÃ¨che, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist (died 1998)
5 October â Jean Louis, costume designer (died 1997)
8 October â Pierre Bertaux, Germanist (died 1986)
9 October â Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker (died 1982)
16 October â Roger Vailland, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (died 1965)
17 October â Marcel Barbu, politician (died 1984)
29 October â Edwige FeuillÃ¨re, actress (died 1998)
1 November
- Paul Bacon, politician (died 1999)
- Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (died 1990)
3 November â Raymond BussiÃ¨res, actor (died 1982)
6 November â Raymond Savignac, graphic artist (died 2002)
18 November â Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (died 1994)
19 November â Fernand Cornez, cyclist (died 1997)
20 November â Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977)^[2]
30 November â Jacques Barzun, historian (died 2012)
10 December
- Daniel Barbier, astronomer (died 1965)
- Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (died 2005)
16 December â Jacques PÃ¢ris de BollardiÃ¨re, General (died 1986)

20 January â Louis Ãmile Javal, ophthalmologist (born 1839)
20 February â Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
11 March â Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (born 1847)
18 March â Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (born 1827)
12 May â Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (born 1848)
13 July â Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (born 1843)
6 September â Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (born 1839)
21 September â Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (born 1827)
1 November â Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist (born 1873)