1900 in France

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Events

31 March – The length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1 April – Every French policeman is assigned to carry a gun.
14 April – Paris World Exhibition opens.
21 April – Battle of Kousséri takes place in Chad, linking all French possessions in Western Africa.
27 June – Treaty of Paris is signed between the Spanish Empire and the French Empire by which Río Muni was relieved of all conflicting claims.
19 July – The first line of the Métro is inaugurated in Paris.

Arts and literature

2 February – First performance of Gustav Carpenter's opera, Louise.

Sport

Olympic Games held in Paris.

Births

January to March

3 January – Marcel Gobillot, cyclist and Olympic medallist (died 1981)
5 January – Yves Tanguy, surrealist painter (died 1955)
9 January – Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, journalist, politician and French Resistance member (died 1969)
11 January – Benoît Fauré, cyclist (died 1980)
4 February – Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (died 1977)
11 February – Raymond Cambefort, one of the last three fully verified World War I veterans living in France (died 2008)
21 February – Madeleine Renaud, actress (died 1994)
6 March – Henri Jeanson, writer and journalist (died 1970)
8 March – Pierre David-Weill, investment banker (died 1975)
19 March – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate (died 1958)

April to June

13 April – Pierre Molinier, painter and photographer (died 1976)
15 April – Pierre Nord, writer, spy and resistance member (died 1985)
20 April – Jacques Adnet, designer, architect and interior designer (died 1984)
28 April
- Maurice Thorez, communist politician (died 1964)
- Jean Vaysse, rugby union player (died 1974)
17 May – Achille Souchard, cyclist (died 1976)
22 May – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (died 1979)
14 June – Roger Bourdin, baritone (died 1973)
29 June – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and writer (died 1944)

July to December

4 July – Robert Desnos, surrealist poet (died 1945)
12 July – Marcel Paul, trade unionist and communist politician (died 1982)
17 July – Marcel Dalio, actor (died 1983)
19 July – Pierre Coquelin de Lisle, sport shooter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1980)
26 July – Jacques Février, pianist (died 1979)
11 August – Georges Limbour, writer (died 1970)
6 September – Marc Bernard, writer (died 1983).
30 September – Pierre Yvert, philatelic editor (died 1964)
9 October – Henri Lauvaux, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1970)
13 October – Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget, actress and Princess of Monaco (died 1991)
November – Émile Gagnan, engineer and inventor (died 1979)
15 December – Hellé Nice, model, dancer and motor racing driver (died 1984)

Full date unknown

Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett (died 1989)
René Guillot, author (died 1969)
Marcel Légaut, philosopher and mathematician (died 1990)
Georges Neveux, dramatist and poet (died 1982)

Deaths

11 February – Émile Blanchard, zoologist and entomologist (born 1819)
19 March – Charles-Louis Hanon, piano pedagogue and composer (born 1819)
5 April – Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician (born 1822)
15 April - Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, writer (born 1868)
22 April – Amédée-François Lamy, military officer (born 1858)
18 May – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, philosopher and archaeologist (born 1813)
16 June – François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville, admiral (born 1818)
24 September – Louis Ratisbonne, writer and man of letters (born 1827)
13 October – Louis Adolphe Cochery, politician and journalist (born 1819)

Full date unknown

Jules Adenis, dramatist and opera librettist (born 1823)
Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, colonial administrator (born 1825)

References

Years in France

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1900 in Europe

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