1907 in France
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Events from the year 1907 in France.
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[edit] Events
- February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
- March - The French warship Jena is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
[edit] Sport
- 8 July - Tour de France begins.
- 4 August - Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Petit-Breton.
[edit] Births
- 24 January — Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (d.1999).
- 15 February - Jean Langlais, composer and organist (d.1991).
- 29 April - Tino Rossi, singer and actor (d.1983).
- 26 May - Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (d.2006).
- 30 May - Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (d.2008).
- 14 June - René Char, poet (d.1988).
- 7 September - Roland Mousnier, historian (d.1993).
- 22 September - Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (d.2003).
- 1 November — Paul Bacon, politician (d.1999).
- 30 November - Jacques Barzun, historian.
- 10 December - Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (d.2005).
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- Jean Hyppolite, philosopher (d.1968).
[edit] Deaths
- 20 January - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (b.1839).
- 25 January - René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (b.1879).
- 16 February - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (b.1817).
- 20 February - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1852).
- 11 March - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (b.1847).
- 12 May - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (b.1848).
- 13 July - Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (b.1843).
- 6 September - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (b.1839).
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- Théobald Chartran, painter (b.1849).
