1912 in France

Events from the year 1912 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

13 January â Raymond PoincarÃ© forms a coalition government, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.
30 March â Treaty of Fez, Sultan Abdelhafid gives up the sovereignty of Morocco, making it a protectorate of France.
10 April â RMS Titanic embarks passengers from tenders at Cherbourg Harbour for the only time.

6 January â Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (died 1994)
15 January â Michel DebrÃ©, politician and first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic (died 1996)
18 January â David Rousset, writer and political activist (died 1997)
3 February â Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist (died 1990)
7 February â Alfred Desenclos, composer (died 1971)
7 February â AmÃ©dÃ©e Fournier, cyclist (died 1992)
11 February â Jacques CorrÃ¨ze, businessman and politician (died 1991)
12 February â Pierre Jaminet, cyclist (died 1968)
20 February â Pierre Boulle, novelist (died 1994)
25 March â Jean Vilar, actor (died 1971)
28 March â LÃ©on Damas, poet and politician (died 1978)

12 April â Georges Franju, filmmaker (died 1987)
14 April â Robert Doisneau, photographer (died 1994)
19 April â Raymond Pichard, Dominican priest and television presenter (died 1992)
21 April â Marcel Camus, film director (died 1982)
28 April â Odette Sansom, World War II heroine (died 1995)
16 May â Alfred Aston, international soccer player (died 2003)
23 May â Jean FranÃ§aix, composer, pianist, and orchestrator (died 1997)
29 May â Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (died 1994)
30 May â Roger Courtois, international soccer player (died 1972)
8 June â Roger Michelot, boxer (died 1993)
15 June â Alix Combelle, swing jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader (died 1978)
22 June â Raymonde Allain, model and actress (died 2008)
29 June
- Lucie Aubrac, World War II Resistance fighter (died 2007)
- Ãmile Peynaud, oenologist and researcher (died 2004)

8 September â Marie-Dominique Philippe, Dominican philosopher and theologian (died 2006)
14 September â Jean Lescure, poet (died 2005)
3 November â Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, member of the French Resistance (died 1996)
13 November â Claude Pompidou, philanthropist, wife of President of France Georges Pompidou (died 2007)
21 November â Pierre Grimal, historian and classicist (died 1996)

14 April â Henri Brisson, statesman and Prime minister of France (born 1835)
16 June â Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, publicist and historian (born 1842)