1903 in France

none May 2022 December 2020 1903 Events from the year 1903 in France. Incumbents President: Émile LoubetWhyte 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: Emile Combes Events 10 August – Paris Métro train fire kills 84 people mostly at Couronnes station. Arts Paul Gauguin - Paysage avec un cochon et un cheval Jacqueline Marval - Les Odalisques Henri Ottmann - Vue de la gare du Luxembourg à Bruxelles Pablo Picasso Le Vieux Guitariste aveugle Portrait bleu de Angel Fernández de Soto La Vie Théo van Rysselberghe - La Lecture par Émile Verhaeren Film Georges Méliès Le Revenant Faust aux enfers Le Puits fantastique Le Cake-Walk infernal Le Chaudron infernal L'Auberge du bon repos Le Royaume des fées La Lanterne magique Le Mélomane Un malheur n'arrive jamais seul Le Monstre La Boîte à malice L'Oracle de Delphes Le Portrait spirite Le Bourreau turc Le Sorcier Literature René Boylesve - L'Enfant à la balustrade Joris-Karl Huysmans - L'Oblat John Antoine Nau - Force ennemie Music Claude Debussy - Estampes Gabriel Fauré - Morceau de Concours Alphonse Hasselmans - Prélude, Op. 51 Jules Massenet - Piano Concerto Gabriel Pierné - Konzertstück, Op. 39 Camille Saint-Saëns - Valse langoureuse, Op. 120 Erik Satie - Je te veux Sport 1 July – First Tour de France begins. 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Maurice Garin. Births January to March 16 January – William Grover-Williams, motor racing driver and war hero. 13 February – Georges Simenon, writer (died 1989) 21 February Anaïs Nin, writer (died 1977) Raymond Queneau, poet and novelist (died 1976) 27 February – Fernand Gambiez, General and military historian (died 1989) 8 March – Jean d'Eaubonne, art director (died 1970) 9 March – André Godinat, cyclist (died 1979) April to June 8 May – Fernandel, actor (died 1971) 15 May – Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist (died 1999) 22 May – Yves Rocard, physicist (died 1992) 2 June – Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (died 1972) 18 June – Raymond Radiguet, author (died 1923) 25 June – Pierre Brossolette, journalist and Resistance fighter (died 1944) 28 June – André Maschinot, soccer player (died 1963) July to September 25 July – André Fleury, composer, pianist and organist (died 1995) 15 August – Pascal Pia, writer, journalist, illustrator and scholar (died 1979) 19 August – Claude Dauphin, actor (died 1978) 29 August – Jean Follain, author, poet and lawyer (died 1971) October to December 1 October – Pierre Veyron, motor racing driver (died 1970) 10 October – Ferdinand Le Drogo, cyclist (died 1976) 16 October – Cécile de Brunhoff, storyteller (died 2003) 18 October – Raoul Dutheil, footballer (died 1945) 19 October – Jean Delsarte, mathematician (died 1968) 23 October – The French Angel, professional wrestler (died 1954) 24 October – Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer (died 1999) 1 November – Jean Tardieu, artist, musician, poet and author (died 1995) 3 November – Charles Rigoulot, weightlifter, professional wrestler, race car driver and actor (died 1962) 9 November – Léon-Étienne Duval, Cardinal (died 1996) 15 November – Lucien Rebatet, author, journalist and intellectual (died 1972) 27 November – Julien Moineau, cyclist (died 1980) 30 November – Claude Arrieu, composer (died 1990) 17 December – Roland de Vaux, priest and archaeologist (died 1971) 23 December – Armand Blanchonnet, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist (died 1968) Full date unknown Maryse Choisy, philosophical writer (died 1979) Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (died 1993) Deaths 28 January Augusta Holmès, composer (born 1847) Robert Planquette, composer of songs and operettas (born 1848) 5 March – Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (born 1839) 14 March – Ernest Legouvé, dramatist (born 1807) 28 March – Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (born 1845) 8 May – Paul Gauguin, painter (born 1848) 16 May – Sibyl Sanderson, American operatic soprano (born 1864 in the United States) 13 November – Camille Pissarro, painter (born 1830) Full date unknown Jean-Jules Allasseur, sculptor (born 1818) Louis-Arsène Delaunay, actor (born 1826) See also List of French films before 1910 References 1903 France France Category:1900s in France Category:Years of the 20th century in France