1926 in France
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Events from the year 1926 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Gaston Doumergue
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- until 20 July: Aristide Briand
- 20 July-23 July: Ãdouard Herriot
- starting 23 July: Raymond Poincaré
Events
- 9 May â French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots.
- 15 July â Grand Mosque of Paris inaugurated.
- 24 November â The village of Rocquebillier on the Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.
- The Guide Michelin first awards stars to restaurants.
Arts and literature
- Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts institutes the Prix Puvis de Chavannes, named after co-founder and first president, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
Sport
- 20 June â Tour de France begins.
- 18 July â Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Buysse of Belgium.
Births
January to June
- 17 January â Robert Filliou, artist (died 1987)
- 2 February â Philippe Chatrier, tennis player (died 2000)
- 7 February â Pierre Villette, composer (died 1998)
- 11 February â Paul Bocuse, chef (died 2018)
- 19 February â Pierre Guénin, journalist, gay rights activist (died 2017)
- 1 March â Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer (died 2022)
- 19 March â Henri René Guieu, science fiction writer (died 2000)
- 13 April â André Testut, motor racing driver (died 2005)
- 8 May â Pierre Broué, historian and Trotskyist (died 2005)
- 5 June â Claude Berge, mathematician (died 2002)
- 12 June â Jean-Pierre Munch, cyclist (died 1996)
- 26 June â Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (died 1994)
July to December
- 6 July â Serge Roullet, film director and screenwriter (died 2023)
- 18 July â Bernard Pons, politician (died 2022)
- 26 July â Monique Pelletier, politician (died 2025)
- 10 August â Michel Breitman, writer and translator (died 2009)
- 14 August â René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist (died 1977)
- 16 August â Roger Agache, archaeologist (died 2011)
- 17 August
- Maurice Lusien, swimmer (died 2017)
- Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter (died 1992)
- 15 September â Jean-Pierre Serre, mathematician
- 17 September â Jean-Marie Lustiger, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris and cardinal (died 2007)
- 15 October â Michel Foucault, philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist (died 1984)
- 1 November â James Marson, politician (died 2017)
- 3 November â Paul Rebeyrolle, painter (died 2005)
- 9 November â Raymond Hains, artist and photographer (died 2005)
- 2 December â Armand Avril, painter and sculptor died 2025)
- 12 December â Ãtienne-Ãmile Baulieu, biochemist (died 2025)
- 21 December â Georges Boudarel, academic and Communist militant (died 2003)
Deaths
- 14 January â René Boylesve, author (born 1867)
- 28 February â Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, astronomer (born 1842)
- 26 March â Georges Aaron Bénédite, Egyptologist (born 1857)
- 2 July â Ãmile Coué, psychologist and pharmacist (born 1857)
- 21 September â Léon Charles Thévenin, telegraph engineer (born 1857)
- 30 September â Agnès Souret, model, "la plus belle femme de France" (peritonitis in Argentina) (born 1902)
- 5 December â Claude Monet, painter (born 1840)[1]
- Date unknown â Jean-Camille Formigé, architect (born 1845)