Events from the year 1907 in France.

Incumbents President: Armand Fallières President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau

Events 2 January – Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifixes in schools 11 February – The French cruiser Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco. March – ESSEC Business School is founded. 12 March – The French battleship Iéna blows up at Toulon; 120 lives lost. 6 April – Louis Blériot flies his new monoplane ten yards. 10 April – French doctors announce the discovery of a new serum to cure dysentery. 18 April – Georges Clemenceau orders dismissal of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest. 17 May – Several thousand riot during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers at Béziers in the south of France. 9 June – Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's combined aeroplane and airship is wrecked in its first trial 28 June – Georges Clemenceau wins a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. 12 July – Major Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his rehabilitation. 14 July – President Armand Fallières narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. 10 August – Peking to Paris motor race concludes. 18 December – Louis Blériot's demonstrations of his new aeroplane at Issy end in its destruction.

Literature

Guillaume Apollinaire - Les Onze Mille Verges Gaston Leroux - Le mystère de la chambre jaune Octave Mirbeau - La 628-E8 Michel Verne - L’Agence Thompson and Co

Sport 8 July – Tour de France begins. 4 August – Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Petit-Breton.

Births

January to March 8 January – Jean Hyppolite, philosopher (died 1968) 11 January – Pierre Mendès France, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1982) 24 January – Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (died 1999) 5 February – Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister (died 2000) 15 February Célestin Delmer, international soccer player (died 1996) Jean Langlais, composer and organist (died 1991) 22 March – Roger Blin, comedian and actor (died 1984)

April to June 7 April – Violette Leduc, author (died 1972) 10 April – Marcel Simon, historian (died 1986) 12 April – Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver (died 1983) 15 April – Jean Fourastié, economist (died 1990) 28 April – Henri Michel, historian (died 1986) 29 April – Tino Rossi, singer and actor (died 1983) 22 May – Jean Beaufret, philosopher and Germanist (died 1982) 23 May – Ginette Mathiot, food writer (died 1998) 26 May – Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (died 2006) 30 May – Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (died 2008) 12 June – Émile Veinante, soccer player and coach (died 1983) 14 June – René Char, poet (died 1988) 17 June – Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (died 1990) 24 June – Jean Schlumberger, jewelry designer (died 1987)

July to September 7 July – Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (died 1988) 5 August – Eugène Guillevic, poet (died 1997) 7 September – Roland Mousnier, historian (died 1993) 22 September – Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (died 2003) 23 September – Anne Desclos, journalist and novelist (died 1998)

October to December 1 October – Maurice Bardèche, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist (died 1998) 4 October – Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (died 1994) 5 October – Jean Louis, costume designer (died 1997) 8 October – Pierre Bertaux, Germanist (died 1986) 9 October – Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker (died 1982) 13 October – Yves Allégret, film director (died 1987) 16 October – Roger Vailland, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (died 1965) 17 October – Marcel Barbu, politician (died 1984) 29 October – Edwige Feuillère, actress (died 1998) 1 November Paul Bacon, politician (died 1999) Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (died 1990) 3 November – Raymond Bussières, actor (died 1982) 6 November – Raymond Savignac, graphic artist (died 2002) 18 November – Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (died 1994) 19 November – Fernand Cornez, cyclist (died 1997) 20 November – Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977) 30 November – Jacques Barzun, historian (died 2012) 10 December Daniel Barbier, astronomer (died 1965) Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (died 2005) 16 December – Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General (died 1986) 24 December – André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist (died 1986)

Deaths 20 January – Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (born 1839) 25 January – René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (born 1879) 16 February – Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (born 1817) 20 February – Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852) 21 February – Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (born 1827) 11 March – Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (born 1847) 18 March – Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (born 1827) 12 May – Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (born 1848) 13 July – Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (born 1843) 16 July – Théobald Chartran, painter (born 1849) 6 September – Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (born 1839) 21 September – Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (born 1827) 1 November – Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist (born 1873)

See also List of French films before 1910

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