1902 in France

none January 2022 December 2020 1902 Events from the year 1902 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: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (until 3 June), Emile Combes (starting 7 June) Events January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the crisis of modernism in the Catholic Church. 13 April – A new land speed record of 119 km/h mph on is set in Nice by Leon Serpollet driving a steam car. 27 April – Legislative Election held. 8 May – 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique. 11 May – Legislative Election held. 24 August – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the town which she stormed in 1429. 1 September – The first science fiction film, the trick film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premièred at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an immediate success.Hammond Paul Marvellous Méliès Gordon Fraser 1974 0-900406-38-0 London 141 5 October – Thousands attend the funeral of the novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. They include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd – Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away – Very Little Disorder The New York Times 1902-10-06 The capital of French Indochina is moved from Saigon (in Cochinchina) to Hanoi (Tonkin). Claude Monet begins his Water Lilies series of paintings in his garden at Giverny. Literature André Gide - L'Immoraliste Jules Verne - Les Frères Kip Music Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande Jules Massenet - Le jongleur de Notre-Dame Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No. 2 Erik Satie Poudre d'or Tendrement Births January–June 11 January – Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (died 1986) 13 January – Raymond Ruyer, philosopher (died 1987) 18 January – Émile Aillaud, architect (died 1988) 21 January – Agnès Souret, model, "la plus belle femme de France" (died 1928) 25 January – André Beaufre, colonel (died 1975) 29 January – Arlette Marchal, actress (died 1984) 8 February – André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (died 2004) 26 February – Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (died 1991) 9 March – Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (died 1945) 13 March – Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (died 1999) 14 March – Henri Barbé, communist (died 1966) 16 March – Louis Couffignal, mathematician and cybernetics pioneer (died 1966) 22 March – Madeleine Milhaud, actress (died 2008) 29 March – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (died 1967) 4 April – Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (died 1969) 9 April – Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (died 2000) 3 May – Alfred Kastler, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984) 7 May – Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (died 2001) 8 May – André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (died 1994)The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1965/lwoff/biographical/ NobelPrize.org 2 January 2022 27 May – Émile Benveniste, structural linguist (died 1976) 2 June – Georges Coudray, politician (died 1998) 15 June – Pierre Béarn, writer (died 2004) 28 June – Pierre Brunet, figure skater (died 1991) July–December 6 July – Louis Vola, double bass player (died 1990) 16 July – Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (died 1989) 21 July – Georges Wambst, Olympic cyclist (died 1988) 9 August – Zino Francescatti, violinist (died 1991) 11 August – Christian de Castries, military officer (died 1991) 16 August – Gilbert Gérintès, rugby union player (died 1968) 24 August – Fernand Braudel, historian (died 1985) 28 August – Jean Favard, mathematician (died 1965) 15 October – André Prudhommeaux, anarchist bookstore owner (died 1968) 20 October – René Floriot, lawyer (died 1975). 31 October – Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (died 1970) 4 November – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (died 1996) 16 November – Paul Bontemps, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1981) 20 November – Jean Painlevé, film director (died 1989) 25 December – Maurice Gallay, footballer (died 1982) 31 December – Marcel Bidot, cyclist (died 1995) Full date unknown Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (died 1988) Deaths 26 January- Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet (born 1847]) 6 February – Clémence Royer, scholar (born 1830) 17 February – Marie-Louise Gagneur, feminist (born 1832) 12 April – Marie Alfred Cornu, physicist (born 1841) 15 April – Jules Dalou, sculptor (born 1838) 4 July – Hervé Faye, astronomer (born 1814) 8 August – James Tissot, painter (born 1836) 29 September – Émile Zola, writer (born 1840) 7 December – Pierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist (born 1830) Full date unknown – Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (born 1820)Klaniczay Gábor Werner Michael Gécser Otto Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities: Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures September 2011 Campus Verlag 978-3-593-39101-4 309 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAc_UDy8vnAC&pg=PA309 en See also List of French films before 1910 References 1902 France France Category:1900s in France Category:Years of the 20th century in France