1913 in France
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Events from the year 1913 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Armand Fallières (until 18 February), Raymond Poincaré (starting 18 February)
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- until 21 January: Raymond Poincaré
- 21 January-22 March: Aristide Briand
- 22 March-9 December: René Viviani
- starting 9 December: Gaston Doumergue
Events
- 17 January â Raymond Poincaré is elected president
- 3 February â Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.
- 29 May â Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
- 20 August â 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud jumps from an airplane and lands safely.
- 23 September â Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean.
- 12 December â Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.
- 30 December â Italy returns Mona Lisa to France.
Arts
Film
Literature
Music
- Claude Debussy
- Images pour orchestre
- Jeux
- La boîte à joujoux (piano score only)
- Syrinx
- Gabriel Fauré - 2 Pieces, Op. 104
- Maurice Ravel - Prélude, M.65
- Albert Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Valse gaie, Op. 139
- La Terre Promise, Op. 140
- 2 Chorales, Op. 141
- Erik Satie
- Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps
Sport
- 29 June â Tour de France begins.
- 27 July â Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.
Births
January to March
- 5 January â Pierre Veuillot, Cardinal (died 1968)
- 17 February â Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (died 2004)
- 24 February â François Bourbotte, soccer player (died 1972)
- 27 February â Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (died 2005)
- 3 March â Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (died 1978)
- 12 March â Max Leognany, artist (died 1994)
- 18 March â René Clément, screenwriter and film director (died 1996)
- 26 March â Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (died 1970)
- 26 March â Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist (died 2010)
- 28 March â Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (died 2001)
April to June
- 14 April â Jean Fournet, conductor (died 2008)
- 18 May â Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (died 2001)
- 26 May â
- Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (died 2005)
- André Lalande, officer (died 1995)
- 9 June â Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (died 1978)
- 18 June â Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (died 2008)
- 26 June â Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (died 2008)
July to December
- 12 July â Roger Testu, cartoonist (died 2008)
- 13 July â Fabien Galateau, cyclist (died 1995)
- 17 July â Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher (died 2012)
- July â Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (died 1981)
- 31 August â Jacques Foccart, politician (died 1997)
- 10 October â Claude Simon, novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1985 (died 2005)
- 13 October â Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (died 1988)
- 7 November â Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957 (died 1960)
- 20 November â Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (died 2006)
- 29 November â Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 1983)
- 11 December â Jean Marais, actor (died 1998)
Full date unknown
- Pierre Probst, cartoonist (died 2007)
Deaths
- 2 January â Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (born 1855)
- 14 June â Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (born 1848)
- 20 August â Ãmile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (born 1825)
- 6 September â Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (born 1853)
- 15 November â Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (born 1832)
- 5 December â Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (born 1816)