1911 in France
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Events from the year 1911 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Armand Fallières
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- until 2 March: Aristide Briand
- 2 March-27 June: Ernest Monis
- starting 27 June: Joseph Caillaux
Events
- January â Champagne Riots begin.
- 19 May â Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole is premièred at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- 13 June â Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premièred at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Vaslav Nijinsky in the lead.[1]
- 14 June â British liner RMS Olympic call at Cherbourg on her maiden transatlantic voyage.
- 1 July â Agadir Crisis.
- 21 August â Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following morning. The thief is arrested and the painting returned from Italy in 1913. Among the suspects is Guillaume Apollinaire.
- 25 September â French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon, killing around 300 onboard and in the surrounding area.
- 4 November â MoroccoâCongo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to the country. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
- 20 December â First robbery by the Bonnot gang.
Literature
Music
- Claude Debussy - Le Martyre de saint Sébastien
- Gabriel Fauré - 9 Préludes, Op. 103
- Maurice Ravel
- Erik Satie
- Igor Stravinsky - Pétrouchka
- Nikolai Tcherepnin - Narcisse et Echo
Births
January to June
- 5 January â Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001)
- 15 January â Jean Talairach, neurosurgeon (died 2007)
- 16 January â Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (died 1996)
- 17 January â André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist (died 1996)
- 18 January â Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (died 1988)
- 22 January â André Roussin, playwright (died 1987)
- 24 January â René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic (died 1985)
- 30 January â René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1983)
- 2 February â Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, organist, composer and architect (died 1982)
- 14 February â Jean-Louis Nicot, Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch (died 2004)
- 23 February â Pierre Meile, French linguist (died 1963)
- 7 April â Hervé Bazin, writer (died 1996)
- 9 April â Paul Coste-Floret, politician (died 1979)
- 10 April â Maurice Schumann, politician (died 1998)
- 2 May â Edmond Pagès, cyclist (died 1987)
- 17 May â André Jaunet, flautist (died 1988)
- 24 May â Michel Pécheux, fencer (died 1985)
- 6 June â Jean Cayrol, poet and publisher (died 2005)
- 15 June â Joseph Alcazar, international soccer player (died 1979)
- 22 June â Michel Dens, baritone (died 2000)
- 29 June â Lucien Lauk, racing cyclist (died 2001)
July to September
- 5 July â Georges Pompidou, President of France (died 1974)
- 23 July â Jean Fontenay, cyclist (died 1975)
- 1 August â André Guinier, physicist (died 2000)
- 11 August â Louis Dumont, anthropologist (died 1998)
- 18 August â Jacques Wertheimer, businessman (died 1996)
- 25 August â André Leroi-Gourhan, archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist (died 1986)
- 7 September â Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (died 1986)
- 10 September â Renée Simonot, actress (died 2021)
October to December
- 12 October â Louis de Guiringaud, politician and Minister (died 1982)
- 13 October â André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (died 1988)
- 19 October â Laurette Séjourné, archeologist and ethnologist (died 2003)
- 31 October â René Hardy, French Resistance worker (died 1987)
- 1 November â Henri Troyat, author, biographer, historian and novelist (died 2007)
- 7 November â Yolande Beekman, World War II heroine (executed) (died 1944)
- 22 November â Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (died 1993)
- 26 November â Robert Marchand, cyclist (died 2021)
- 8 December â Sauveur Ducazeaux, cyclist (died 1987)
- 21 December â Yves Godard, military officer (died 1975)
- 25 December â Louise Bourgeois, artist and sculptor (died 2010)
- 28 December â Gustave Malécot, mathematician (died 1998)
- 29 December â Bernard Saint-Hillier, General (died 2004)
- 29 December â André Claveau, recording artist; singer (died 2003)
Full date unknown
- Louis Henry, historian (died 1991)
- Claude Saint-Cyr, milliner (died 2002)
Deaths
- 13 February â Alphonse Pinart, explorer, philologist, and ethnographer (born 1852)
- 17 February â Auguste Houzeau, agronomist and chemist (born 1829)
- 24 March â Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist (born 1824)
- 29 March â Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (born 1837)
- 7 June â Maurice Rouvier, statesman (born 1842)
- 18 July â Jules Bourgeois, entomologist (born 1847)
- 11 September â Louis Henri Boussenard, author of adventure novels (born 1847)
- 30 September â Louis Joseph Troost, chemist (born 1825)
- 7 October â Marie Clément Gaston Gautier, botanist (born 1841)
- 8 December â Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (born 1837)