1904 in France
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Events from the year 1904 in France.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 23 February - First launch of a French diesel-powered submarine, Aigrette.[2][3]
- 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.[4][5]
- Global cosmetics companies are founded in Paris: Coty, by François Coty,[6] and Garnier, by Alfred Amour Garnier.[7]
Arts and literature
[edit]- Summer - Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered foundational in his own oeuvre and the starting point of Fauvism.[8]
Sport
[edit]- 2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
- 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Henri Cornet.
Births
[edit]January to March
[edit]- 7 January - Pierre Allain, climber (died 2000)
- 13 January - Jean de Beaumont, sport shooter (died 2002)[9]
- 14 January - Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (died 1967)[10]
- 4 February - Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (died 1967)[11]
- 11 February - Lucile Randon, supercentenarian (died 2023)[12]
- 15 February - Louis Robert, historian and author (died 1985)[13]
- 24 February - Gaston Marie Jacquier, Roman Catholic prelate (died 1976)[14]
- 27 February - André Leducq, cyclist, twice Tour de France winner (died 1980)[15]
- 1 March - Paul Dubreil, mathematician (died 1994)[16]
- 13 March - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (died 2001)[17]
April to June
[edit]- 12 April - Arsène Alancourt, cyclist (died 1965)
- 13 April - Yves Congar, priest and theologian (died 1995)[18]
- 21 April
- Jean Hélion, painter and author (died 1987)[19]
- Gabriel Loire, stained glass artist (died 1996)[20]
- 25 April - René Cogny, General (died 1968)[21][22]
- 17 May - Jean Gabin, actor (died 1976)[23]
- 18 May - François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1994)
- 19 May - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (died 1988)
- 25 May - Marcel Thil, world champion boxer (died 1968)
- 8 June - Jean-Jérôme Adam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Libreville (died 1981)
- 11 June - Gaston Charlot, chemist (died 1994)
- 29 June - Jean Berveiller, composer and organist (died 1976)
July to September
[edit]- 2 July - René Lacoste, tennis player (died 1996)
- 8 July - Henri Cartan, mathematician. (died 2008)
- 24 July - Leo Arnaud, composer of film scores (died 1991)
- 4 September - Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (died 1994)
- 7 September - Henri Pinault, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengdu (died 1987)
- 18 September - Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (died 1994)
October to December
[edit]- 8 October - Yves Giraud-Cabantous, motor racing driver (died 1973)
- 13 October - Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (died 1967)
- 14 October - Christian Pineau, French Resistance leader and politician (died 1995)
- 12 November
- Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (died 1977)
- Jacques Tourneur, film director (died 1977)
- 22 November - Louis Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 (died 2000)[24]
- 6 December - Ève Curie, author and writer, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (died 2007)
- 12 December - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor (died 1981)
- 21 December - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (died 2001)
- 31 December - Charles Fauvel, aircraft designer (died 1979)
Full date unknown
[edit]- Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (died 1994)
Deaths
[edit]- 10 January - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (born 1824)[25][26]
- 26 January - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (born 1819)[27]
- 3 February - Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (born 1819)[28]
- 19 May - Auguste Molinier, historian (born 1851)[29]
- 27 June - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (born 1821)
- 25 August - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (born 1836)
- 23 September - Émile Gallé, artist (born 1846)
- 4 October - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)
Full date unknown
[edit]- Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1843)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Whyte, G. (12 October 2005). The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History. Springer. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-230-58450-1.
- ^ Dufeil, Yves; Le Bel, Franck; Terraillon, Marc (17 April 2008). "AIGRETTE" (PDF). Navires de la Grande Guerre (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Q 038 L' Aigrette". Sous-marins Français (in French). Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Entente Cordiale Table of Contents". Memorial University of Newfoundland. 2000. Archived from the original on 12 August 2004. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "BBC - History : British History Timeline". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ Wohl, Jessica (2 April 2012). "Coty has staying power in bid for Avon". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Our Heritage". Garnier. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- ^ Dempsey, Amy (2002). Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 66–69.
- ^ "Jean, Count de Beaumont". Olympedia. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Henri-Georges Adam". Dictionary of Art & Artist. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Collet, J. (14 February 2004). "Georges Sadoul: BIOGRAPHIE simplifiée" [Georges Sadoul: Simplified BIOGRAPHY] (in French). Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ World’s oldest person, Lucile Randon dies at the age of 118
- ^ "Louis Robert". Professeurs disparus (in French). Collège de France. 16 March 2005. Archived from the original on 3 February 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Bishop Gaston-Marie Jacquier †
- ^ "André Leducq". Olympedia. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ O'Connor, J J; Robertson, E F (October 2016). "Paul Dubreil (1904 - 1994) - Biography". MacTutor History of Mathematics. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Notice de personne "Dumont, René (1904-2001)" [Person notice "Dumont, René (1904-2001)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Groppe, Elizabeth T. (18 June 2021). "Yves Congar". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ Notice de personne "Hélion, Jean (1904-1987)" [Person notice "Hélion, Jean (1904-1987)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2 June 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Notice de personne "Loire, Gabriel (1904-1996)" [Person notice "Loire, Gabriel (1904-1996)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Cogny, René (1904-1968)". IdRef (in French). Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Dommen, Arthur J. (2011). "Cogny, René". In Tucker, Spencer C.; et al. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Vol. I: A – G (Second ed.). Santa Barbara, California, Denver, Colorado, Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO. pp. 222–223. ISBN 978-1-85109-961-0. Retrieved 18 February 2022 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Jean Gabin | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie, Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "DEATH CALLS GREAT PAINTER AND SCULPTOR". San Francisco Call. Vol. 95, no. 42. 11 January 1904. Page 3, column 1. Retrieved 20 December 2021 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ "Jean-Léon Gérôme - Biography and Legacy". TheArtStory. The Art Story Foundation. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ Notice de personne "Deschanel, Émile (1819-1904)" [Person notice "Deschanel, Émile (1819-1904)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 17 August 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Notice de personne "Bocourt, Firmin (1819-1904)" [Person notice "Bocourt, Firmin (1819-1904)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Molinier, Auguste". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 667.
