1911 in France

none December 2020 1911 Events from the year 1911 in France. Incumbents President: Armand Fallières President of the Council of Ministers: until 2 March: Aristide Briand 2 March-27 June: Ernest Monis starting 27 June: Joseph Caillaux Events January – Champagne Riots begin. 19 May – Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole is premièred at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. 13 June – Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premièred at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Vaslav Nijinsky in the lead.David Dubal David Dubal The Essential Canon of Classical Music Macmillan 2003 365 14 June – British liner Olympic call at Cherbourg on her maiden transatlantic voyage. 1 July – Agadir Crisis. 21 August – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following morning. The thief is arrested and the painting returned from Italy in 1913. Among the suspects is Guillaume Apollinaire. 25 September – French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon, killing around 300 onboard and in the surrounding area. 4 November – Morocco–Congo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to the country. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad). 20 December – First robbery by the Bonnot gang. Literature Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre - Fantômas André Gide - Isabelle Jean de La Hire - Le Mystère des XV Alfred Jarry - Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician Valery Larbaud - Fermina Márquez Music Claude Debussy - Le Martyre de saint Sébastien Gabriel Fauré - 9 Préludes, Op. 103 Maurice Ravel L'heure espagnole Valses nobles et sentimentales Erik Satie En habit de cheval Trois Morceaux en forme de poire Sarabandes Igor Stravinsky - Pétrouchka Nikolai Tcherepnin - Narcisse et Echo Births January to June 5 January – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001) 15 January – Jean Talairach, neurosurgeon (died 2007) 16 January – Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (died 1996) 17 January – André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist (died 1996) 18 January – Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (died 1988) 22 January – André Roussin, playwright (died 1987) 24 January – René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic (died 1985) 30 January – René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1983) 2 February – Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, organist, composer and architect (died 1982) 14 February – Jean-Louis Nicot, Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch (died 2004) 23 February – Pierre Meile, French linguist (died 1963) 7 April – Hervé Bazin, writer (died 1996) 9 April – Paul Coste-Floret, politician (died 1979) 10 April – Maurice Schumann, politician (died 1998) 2 May – Edmond Pagès, cyclist (died 1987) 17 May – André Jaunet, flautist (died 1988) 24 May – Michel Pécheux, fencer (died 1985) 6 June – Jean Cayrol, poet and publisher (died 2005) 15 June – Joseph Alcazar, international soccer player (died 1979) 22 June – Michel Dens, baritone (died 2000) 29 June – Lucien Lauk, racing cyclist (died 2001) July to September 5 July – Georges Pompidou, President of France (died 1974) 23 July – Jean Fontenay, cyclist (died 1975) 1 August – André Guinier, physicist (died 2000) 11 August – Louis Dumont, anthropologist (died 1998) 18 August – Jacques Wertheimer, businessman (died 1996) 25 August – André Leroi-Gourhan, archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist (died 1986) 7 September – Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (died 1986) 10 September – Renée Simonot, actress (died 2021) October to December 12 October – Louis de Guiringaud, politician and Minister (died 1982) 13 October – André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (died 1988) 19 October – Laurette Séjourné, archeologist and ethnologist (died 2003) 31 October – René Hardy, French Resistance worker (died 1987) 1 November – Henri Troyat, author, biographer, historian and novelist (died 2007) 7 November – Yolande Beekman, World War II heroine (executed) (died 1944) 22 November – Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (died 1993) 26 November – Robert Marchand, cyclist (died 2021) 8 December – Sauveur Ducazeaux, cyclist (died 1987) 21 December – Yves Godard, military officer (died 1975) 25 December – Louise Bourgeois, artist and sculptor (died 2010) 28 December – Gustave Malécot, mathematician (died 1998) 29 December – Bernard Saint-Hillier, General (died 2004) 29 December – André Claveau, recording artist; singer (died 2003) Full date unknown Louis Henry, historian (died 1991) Claude Saint-Cyr, milliner (died 2002) Deaths 13 February – Alphonse Pinart, explorer, philologist, and ethnographer (born 1852) 17 February – Auguste Houzeau, agronomist and chemist (born 1829) 24 March – Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist (born 1824) 29 March – Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (born 1837) 7 June – Maurice Rouvier, statesman (born 1842) 18 July – Jules Bourgeois, entomologist (born 1847) 11 September – Louis Henri Boussenard, author of adventure novels (born 1847) 30 September – Louis Joseph Troost, chemist (born 1825) 7 October – Marie Clément Gaston Gautier, botanist (born 1841) 8 December – Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (born 1837) References 1911 France France Category:1910s in France Category:Years of the 20th century in France