1915 in France
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Events from the year 1915 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Raymond Poincaré
- President of the Council of Ministers: René Viviani (until 29 October), Aristide Briand (starting 29 October)
Events
- 19 January â Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- 27 January â French military casualties begin arriving at the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, established earlier in the month by British volunteers.
- 2 April â Croix de guerre instituted as a military decoration.[1]
- 18 April â Roland Garros lands his aircraft behind enemy lines and is taken prisoner.
- 9 May â Second Battle of Artois starts.
- 15 May â Second Battle of Artois ends in stalemate.
- July â Adrian helmet first issued to the French Army.
- 10 September â Satirical weekly newspaper Le Canard enchaîné first published.
- 15 September â Third Battle of Artois begins.
- 25 September
- Battle of Loos begins, a major British offensive on the Western Front; first British use of poison gas during World War I.
- Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- 28 September â Battle of Loos ends with British retreat.
- 16 October â France declares war on Bulgaria.
- 4 November â Third Battle of Artois ends.
- 6 November â Second Battle of Champagne ends.
Births
January to March
- 13 January â Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar (died 2000)
- 14 January â André Frossard, journalist and essayist (died 1995)
- 31 January â Henri Dobert, mechanical or electrician worker, World War II resistant (died 1943)[2]
- 18 February â Marcel Landowski, composer, biographer and arts administrator (died 1999)
- 1 March â Gustave Choquet, mathematician (died 2006)
- 7 March â Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (died 2000)
- 24 March â Eugène Martin, motor racing driver (died 2006)
April to June
- 2 April â Jean Sauvagnargues, politician and Minister (died 2002)
- 3 April â Paul Touvier, convicted of crime against humanity for collaborationism in Vichy France (died 1996)
- 20 April â Ãmile Muller, politician (died 1988)
- 6 May â Achille Zavatta, clown and circus operator (died 1993)
- 12 May â Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé community (died 2005)
- 21 June â Jean Bastien, soccer player (died 1969)
July to December
- 31 July â Henri Decaë, cinematographer (died 1987)
- 19 August â Alphonse Antoine, cyclist (died 1999)
- 22 October â Jules Bigot, soccer player and manager (died 2007)
- 22 October â Jean Despeaux, boxer, Olympic gold-medallist (died 1989)
- 9 November â André François, cartoonist (died 2005)
- 12 November â Roland Barthes, literary critic and philosopher (died 1980)
- 17 November â Michel Arnaud, General (died 1990)
- November â Jean Neuberth, abstract painter (died 1966)
- 17 December â André Claveau, singer (died 2003)
- 19 December â Ãdith Piaf, singer (died 1963)
Deaths
- 8 April â Louis Pergaud, novelist (killed in action) (born 1882)
- 10 May â Gaston Cros, army officer and archaeologist (killed in action) (born 1861)
- 5 June â Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, painter and sculptor (killed in action) (born 1891)
- 25 July â Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, socialite, model for Portrait of Madame X (born 1859)
- 31 August â Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
- 15 September â Alfred Agache, painter (born 1843)
- 31 August â Adolphe Pégoud, acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
- 11 October â Jean Henri Fabre, entomologist (born 1823)
- 25 November â Michel Bréal, philologist (born 1832)