1918 in France
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Events from the year 1918 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 21 March - Second Battle of the Somme begins.
- 23 March - The giant German cannon, the so-called Paris Gun, begins to shell Paris from 114 km (71 mi) away.
- 27 May - Third Battle of the Aisne begins.
- 1 June - Battle of Belleau Wood begins.
- 6 June - Third Battle of the Aisne ends with the German advance halted after initial gains.
- 26 June - Battle of Belleau Wood ends in Allied victory.
- 15 July - Second Battle of the Marne begins, last major German offensive on the Western Front.
- 18 July-22 July - Battle of Soissons.
- 5 August - Second Battle of the Marne ends with Allied victory.
- 8 August - Battle of Amiens begins.
- 12 September - British victory in Battle of Havrincourt.
- 12 September-15 September - Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Allied victory.
- 18 September - British victory in the Battle of Épehy.
- 8 October-10 October - Battle of Cambrai, decisive Allied victory.
- 7 November - Anglo-French Declaration signed between France and the United Kingdom, agreeing to implement a "complete and final liberation" of countries that had been part of the Ottoman Empire.
- 11 November - Battle of Amiens ends, when the armistice is signed.
[edit] Births
- 25 April - Alain Savary, politician and Minister (died 1988).
- 25 April - Gérard de Vaucouleurs, astronomer (died 1995).
- 26 June - Roger Voisin, trumpeter (died 2008).
- 26 August - Marcel Bleibtreu, Trotskyist activist and theorist (died 2001).
- 14 September - Paul Bonneau, composer (died 1995).
- 30 September - René Rémond, historian and political economist (died 2007).
- 6 October - André Pilette, motor racing driver (died 1993).
- 16 October - Louis Althusser, Marxist philosopher (died 1990).
- 7 November - Paul Aussaresses, general
- 8 December - Gérard Souzay, baritone (died 2004).
- 16 December - Pierre Delanoë, songwriter/lyricist (died 2006).
- 30 December - Lucien Leduc, soccer player and manager (died 2004).
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- Madeleine Giteau, historian (died 2005).
- Gilbert Martineau, author and curator of the French properties on St Helena (died 1995).
- Marcel Mouly, artist (died 2008).
- Roger Trézel, bridge player (died 1986).
[edit] Deaths
- 9 January - Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (born 1844).
- 25 March - Claude Debussy, composer (born 1862).
- 5 October - Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (born 1888).
- 13 October - Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer (born 1843).
- 9 November - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (born 1880).
- 3 December - Étienne Destot, radiologist and anatomist (born 1864).
- 22 December - Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais, entomologist (born 1843).
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- Henri Chantavoine, writer (born 1850).
- Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (born 1836).
- Thérèse Humbert, fraudster (born 1856).