1913 in France

See also: 1912 in France, other events of 1913, 1914 in France.

Events from the year 1913 in France.

Events

• 17 January - Raymond Poincare is elected president
• 3 February - Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.
• 20 August - 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegond jumps from an airplane and lands safely.
• 23 September - Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean.

Arts and literature

• 29 May - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
• 12 December - Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.
• 30 December - Italy returns Mona Lisa to France.

Sport

• 29 June - Tour de France begins.
• 27 July - Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.

Births

January to March

• 5 January - Pierre Veuillot, Cardinal (died 1968).
• 24 February - François Bourbotte, soccer player (died 1972).
• 27 February - Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (died 2005).
• 3 March - Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (died 1978).
• 12 March - Max Leognany, artist (died 1994).
• 18 March - René Clément, screenwriter and film director (died 1996).
• 26 March - Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (died 1970).
• 26 March - Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist.
• 28 March - Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (died 2001).

April to June

• 14 April - Jean Fournet, conductor.
• 18 May - Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (died 2001).
• 26 May - Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (died 2005).
• 26 May - André Lalande, officer (died 1995).
• 9 June - Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (died 1978).
• 18 June - Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (died 2008).
• 26 June - Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (died 2008).

July to December

• 12 July - Roger Testu, cartoonist (died 2008).
• 13 July - Fabien Galateau, cyclist (died 1995).
• 17 July - Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher.
• July - Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (died 1981).
• 31 August - Jacques Foccart, politician (died 1997).
• 10 October - Claude Simon, novelist, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature (died 2005).
• 7 November - Albert Camus, author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize in 1957 (died 1960).
• 20 November - Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (died 2006).
• 11 December - Jean Marais, actor (died 1998).

Full date unknown

• Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (died 2004).
• René Herse, bicycle constructor (died 1976).
• Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (died 1988).
• Pierre Probst, cartoonist (died 2007).
• Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 1983).

Deaths

• 2 January - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (born 1855).
• 20 August - Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (born 1825).
• 6 September - Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (born 1853).
• 15 November - Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (born 1832).

Full date unknown

• Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (born 1848).

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