1906 in France

none June 2020 1906 Events from the year 1906 in France. Incumbents President: Émile Loubet (until 18 February), Armand Fallières (starting 18 February)Whyte G. The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History 12 October 2005 Springer 978-0-230-58450-1 472 https://books.google.com/books?id=0_rMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA472 en President of the Council of Ministers: until 7 March: Maurice Rouvier 12 March – 20 October: Ferdinand Sarrien starting 25 October: Georges Clemenceau Events 16 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. 10 March - Courrières mine disaster: Explosion in coal mine in Courrières kills 1099. 7 April - Final agreement from Algeciras Conference is signed. 6 May - Legislative Election held. 20 May - Legislative Election held. June - First Paris motor bus line opened by C.G.O. (Compagnie Générale des Omnibus). 12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. 21 July - Dreyfus is reinstalled in the French Army 21 July, ending the Dreyfus Affair. 23 October - Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft performs the first publicly witnessed European unaided take-off by a heavier-than-air aircraft, in Bagatelle. Art Leonetto Cappiello - Maurin Quina André Derain - Le Bassin de Londres Albert Marquet - Le Sergent de la coloniale Henri Matisse Le bonheur de vivre Marguerite lisant Les Tapis rouges Autoportrait Le Jeune Marin II Jean Metzinger Coucher de soleil no. 1 La danse, Bacchante Baigneuses: Deux nus dans un paysage exotique Femme au Chapeau Pablo Picasso Jeune garçon au cheval Portrait de Gertrude Stein Literature Arnould Galopin - Doctor Omega Music Isaac Albéniz - Iberia, Livre 1 Claude Debussy - Images, 1re série Georges Enesco Légende Decet Gabriel Fauré Le don silencieux Piano Quintet No. 1 Barcarolle No. 7 Impromptu No. 4 Jules Massenet - Ariane Giacomo Puccini - Madame Butterfly (French-language version) Maurice Ravel Miroirs Introduction et Allegro Manteau de fleurs Camille Saint-Saëns L'ancêtre La gloire de Corneille Le fleuve Edgard Varèse - Un grand sommeil noir Sport 26–27 June - 1906 French Grand Prix at Le Mans; French cars take the major prizes. 4 July - Tour de France begins. 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by René Pottier. Births January to June 5 January – Pierre Seghers, poet and editor (died 1987) 21 February – Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (died 1988) 8 March – Louis Peglion, cyclist (died 1986) 9 March – Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (died 1990) 18 March – Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (died 1967) 25 March – Jean Sablon, singer and actor (died 1994) 26 March – Henri Cadiou, painter and lithographer (died 1989) 27 March – Bernard Lefebvre, photographer (died 1992) 2 April – Maurice Thiriet, composer (died 1972) 6 May – André Weil, mathematician (died 1998) 22 May – Paul Badré, aircraft pilot and engineer (died 2000) 3 June – Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer, singer and actress (died 1975) 7 June – Alexandre Renard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1983) 24 June – Pierre Fournier, cellist (died 1986) July to September 1 July - Jean Dieudonné, mathematician (died 1992) 2 July - Séra Martin, middle-distance Olympic runner (died 1993) 6 July - Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (died 1990) 7 July - Charles Vaurie, ornithologist (died 1975) 27 July - Roger Duchesne, actor (died 1996) 30 July - Alex Thépot, international soccer player (died 1989) 18 August - Marcel Carné, film director (died 1996) 6 September - Luis Federico Leloir, physician and biochemist, recipient of 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1987) 12 September - Jacques Lacarrière, ice hockey player (died 2005) 30 September - Mireille Hartuch, singer, composer and actress (died 1996) October to December 3 October - Raymond Triboulet, resistance fighter and politician (died 2006) 22 October - Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (died 1994) 7 November Jean Leray, mathematician (died 1998) Pierre Magne, cyclist (died 1980) 14 November - Claude Ménard, field athlete, Olympic medallist (died 1980) 19 November - Jacques Leguerney, composer (died 1997) 16 November - Henri Charrière, convicted felon and author (died 1973) 10 December - Jules Ladoumègue, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1973) 18 December - Ferdinand Alquié, philosopher (died 1985) 27 December - Andreas Feininger, French-born German-American photographer (died 1999) Deaths 1 April - Léon Fairmaire, entomologist (born 1820) 18 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (born 1819) 19 April - Pierre Curie, physicist, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics, in road accident (born 1859) 5 July - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter (born 1827) 26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat (born 1846) 18 October - Léon Gastinel, composer (born 1813) 22 October - Paul Cézanne, painter (born 1839)Paul Cézanne French artist Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Cezanne www.britannica.com 14 May 2023 en 5 September - Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (born 1839) 9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic (born 1849) See also List of French films before 1910 References 1906 France France Category:1900s in France Category:Years of the 20th century in France