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1913
Events from the year 1913 in France.
Incumbents
President: Armand Fallières (until 18 February), Raymond Poincaré (starting 18 February)
President of the Council of Ministers:
until 21 January: Raymond Poincaré
21 January-22 March: Aristide Briand
22 March-9 December: René Viviani
starting 9 December: Gaston Doumergue
Events
17 January – Raymond Poincaré is elected president
3 February – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.
29 May – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
20 August – 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud jumps from an airplane and lands safely.
23 September – Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean.
12 December – Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.
30 December – Italy returns Mona Lisa to France.
Arts
Pierre Bonnard - Salle à manger à la campagnehttps://collections.artsmia.org/art/1240/dining-room-in-the-country-pierre-bonnard Dining Room in the Country, 1913 Minneapolis Institute of Art 28 February 2026
Marc Chagall - Autoportrait aux sept doigts
Robert Delaunay - L'Équipe de Cardiff
Albert Gleizes
Les Joueurs de football
L'Homme au hamac
Portrait de l'éditeur Eugène Figuière
Dominique Lang - Le barrage
Albert Marquet - La Citadelle à Tanger
Jean Metzinger
En Canot
Le Fumeur
La Femme à l'Éventail
Francis Picabia - Udnie
Film
Louis Feuillade - Fantômas (1913 serial)
Literature
Alain-Fournier - Le Grand Meaulnes
Maurice Barrès - La colline inspirée
Gaston Leroux - Rouletabille chez le Tsar
Octave Mirbeau - Dingo
Marcel Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu
Music
thumb|Concept design from Diaghilev's 1913 production
Claude Debussy
Images pour orchestre
Jeux
La boîte à joujoux (piano score only)
Syrinx
Gabriel Fauré - 2 Pieces, Op. 104
Maurice Ravel - Prélude, M.65
Albert Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée
Camille Saint-Saëns
Valse gaie, Op. 139
La Terre Promise, Op. 140
2 Chorales, Op. 141
Erik Satie
Descriptions automatiques
Embryons desséchés
Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps
Sport
29 June – Tour de France begins.
27 July – Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.
Births
January to March
5 January – Pierre Veuillot, cardinal (died 1968)
23 January – Jean-Michel Atlan, painter (died 1960)
17 February – Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (died 2004)
24 February – François Bourbotte, soccer player (died 1972)
27 February – Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (died 2005)
3 March – Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (died 1978)
12 March – Max Leognany, artist (died 1994)
18 March – René Clément, screenwriter and film director (died 1996)
26 March – Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (died 1970)
26 March – Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist (died 2010)
28 March – Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (died 2001)
April to June
14 April – Jean Fournet, conductor (died 2008)
18 May – Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (died 2001)
26 May –
Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (died 2005)
André Lalande, officer (died 1995)
9 June – Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (died 1978)
18 June – Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (died 2008)
26 June – Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (died 2008)
July to December
1 July – André Tollet, chairman of the Paris liberation committee (died 2001)
12 July – Roger Testu, cartoonist (died 2008)
13 July – Fabien Galateau, cyclist (died 1995)
14 July – René Llense, footballer (died 2014)
17 July – Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher (died 2012)
July – Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (died 1981)
31 August – Jacques Foccart, politician (died 1997)
10 October – Claude Simon, novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1985 (died 2005)
13 October – Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (died 1988)
7 November – Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957 (died 1960)
20 November – Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (died 2006)
22 November – Jacqueline Vaudecrane, figure skater (died 2018)
29 November – Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 1983)
11 December – Jean Marais, actor (died 1998)
Full date unknown
Pierre Probst, cartoonist (died 2007)
Deaths
2 January – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (born 1855)
14 June – Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (born 1848)
20 August – Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (born 1825)
6 September – Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (born 1853)
15 November – Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (born 1832)
5 December – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (born 1816)
See also
List of French films of 1913
References
1913
France
France
Category:1910s in France
Category:Years of the 20th century in France