1904 in France

See also: 1903 in France, other events of 1904, 1905 in France.

Events from the year 1904 in France.

Events

• 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.

Arts and literature

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Sport

• 2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
• 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Henri Cornet.

Births

January to March

• 13 January - Jean de Beaumont, sport shooter (died 2002).
• 14 January - Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (died 1967).
• 15 February - Louis Robert, historian and author (died 1985).
• 27 February - André Leducq, cyclist, twice Tour de France winner (died 1980).
• 1 March - Paul Dubreil, mathematician (died 1994).
• 13 March - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (died 2001).

April to June

• 8 April - Yves Congar, priest and theologian (died 1995).
• 12 April - Arsène Alancourt, cyclist (died 1965).
• 21 April - Jean Hélion, painter and author (died 1987).
• 25 April - René Cogny, General (died 1968).
• 17 May - Jean Gabin, actor (died 1976).
• 18 May - François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1994).
• 19 May - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (died 1988).
• 25 May - Marcel Thil, world champion boxer (died 1968).
• 8 June - Jean-Jérôme Adam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Libreville (died 1981).
• 11 June - Gaston Charlot, chemist (died 1994).

July to September

• 2 July - René Lacoste, tennis player (died 1996).
• 8 July - Henri Cartan, mathematician.
• 24 July - Leo Arnaud, composer of film scores (died 1991).
• 4 September - Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (died 1994).
• 7 September - Henri Pinault, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengdu (died 1987).
• 18 September - Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (died 1994).

October to December

• 8 October - Yves Giraud-Cabantous, motor racing driver (died 1973).
• 13 October - Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (died 1967).
• 14 October - Christian Pineau, French Resistance leader and politician (died 1995).
• 12 November - Jacques Tourneur, film director (died 1977).
• 22 November - Louis Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 (died 2000).
• 6 December - Ève Curie, author and writer, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (died 2007).
• 12 December - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor (died 1981).
• 21 December - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (died 2001).
• 31 December - Charles Fauvel, aircraft designer (died 1979).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Allain, climber (died 2000).
• Jean Berveiller, composer and organist (died 1976).
• Gabriel Loire, stained glass artist (died 1996).
• Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (died 1977).
• Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (died 1994).
• Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (died 1993).
• Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (died 1967).

Deaths

• 10 January - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (born 1824).
• 26 January - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (born 1819).
• 19 May - Auguste Molinier, historian (born 1851).
• 27 June - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (born 1821).
• 25 August - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (born 1836).
• 23 September - Émile Gallé, artist (born 1846).
• 4 October - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (born 1834).

Full date unknown

• Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (born 1819).
• Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1843).

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