1923 in France

Events from the year 1923 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

11 January â Occupation of the Ruhr begins by French and Belgian troops to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
September â Resultant strikes called off by German government and followed by a state of emergency.
October â Rhenish Republic is proclaimed at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle).

March â Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.

26 May â The inaugural 24 hours of Le Mans race is won by AndrÃ© Lagache and RenÃ© LÃ©onard.
24 June â Tour de France begins.
22 July â Tour de France ends, won by Henri PÃ©lissier.

7 January â Jean Lucienbonnet, motor racing driver (died 1962)
9 February â AndrÃ© Gorz, journalist and social philosopher (died 2007)
13 February â Philippe de ChÃ©risey, writer, radio humorist and actor (died 1985)
24 February â Lucien Braun, historian and philosopher (died 2020)
22 March â Marcel Marceau, mime artist (died 2007)^[1]
1 April â Jean Catoire, composer (died 2005)
5 April â LÃ©on Fleuriot, linguist and historian (died 1987)
9 April â Albert Decourtray, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1994)
9 May â Claude PiÃ©plu, actor (died 2006)
10 May â Jean-Claude Pecker, astronomer (died 2020)
27 May â Nicole StÃ©phane, actress, producer and director (died 2007)
7 June â Jean Baratte, soccer player and manager (died 1986)
10 June â Madeleine Lebeau, film actress (died 2016)
16 June â Silvia Monfort, actress and theatre director (died 1991)
18 June â Jean Delumeau, historian (died 2020)
24 June
- GeneviÃ¨ve Asse, painter (died 2021)
- Marc Riboud, photographer (died 2016)
27 June â Jacques Berthier, composer (died 1994)

3 July â Charles Hernu, politician (died 1990)
6 July â Madame Claude (Fernande Grudet), brothel keeper (died 2015)
23 July â Claude Luter, jazz clarinetist (died 2006)
1 August â Jean Prat, international rugby player (died 2005)
2 August â Jean Rosenthal, translator (died 2020)
23 August â Georges Perros, writer (died 1978)
2 September â RenÃ© Thom, mathematician (died 2002)
13 September â Edouard Boubat, photographer (died 1999)
12 October â Bernard Pingaud, writer (died 2020)
30 October â Anne Beaumanoir, neurophysiologist (died 2022)
7 November â Gilles Lapouge, writer and journalist (died 2020)
16 November â Marc Camoletti, playwright (died 2003)
18 November â Jean Cluzel, politician (died 2020)
24 November â Paul Haeberlin, chef and restaurateur (died 2008)
29 November â Christian Beullac, politician and Minister (died 1986)
10 December â Simone Chrisostome, resistance member and holocaust survivor (died 2021)
13 December â Jacques Renaud, racing cyclist (died 2020)
25 December â NoÃ«l Vandernotte, coxswain (died 2020)
31 December â Michel de Salzmann, psychiatrist (died 2001)

19 February â Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, painter and sculptor (born 1842)
26 March â Sarah Bernhardt, actress (born 1844)
28 March â Michel-Joseph Maunoury, military leader (born 1847)
10 June â Pierre Loti, sailor and writer (born 1850)
14 June â Isabelle Bogelot, philanthropist and campaigner (born 1838)
23 July â Charles Dupuy, politician, three times prime minister (born 1851)
13 August â Bernard Gravier, Olympic fencer
13 October â Ãmile Bergerat, poet, playwright and essayist (born 1845)
5 November â Jacques d'AdelswÃ¤rd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (born 1880)
12 December â Raymond Radiguet, author (born 1903)
27 December â Gustave Eiffel, structural engineer and architect, designer of the Eiffel Tower (born 1832)
31 December â Ãdouard Stephan, astronomer (born 1837)

Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin, maker of violins, violas, cellos, basses and bows (born 1841).