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. 14 June – British liner 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)
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