1914 in France
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Events from the year 1914 in France. Why? Because
Incumbents
- President: Raymond Poincaré
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- until 9 June: Gaston Doumergue
- 9 June-13 June: Alexandre Ribot
- starting 13 June: René Viviani
Events
- 16 March - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage. (She is later acquitted.)
- 26 April - French legislative election held.
- 10 May - French legislative election held.
- 31 July - Jean Jaurès assassinated by a French nationalist fanatic
- 3 August - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France.
- 9 August - Battle of Mulhouse begins, the opening attack of World War I by the French army against Germany.
- 26 August - Allies withdraw from Le Cateau to St. Quentin, after Battle of Le Cateau.
- 29 August - French Fifth Army attack St. Quentin.
- 30 August - French Fifth Army retreat from St. Quentin.
- 25 September - Battle of Albert begins.
- 27 September - First Battle of Artois begins.
- 1 October - Battle of Arras begins.
- 4 October - Lens is lost, as French Tenth Army fails to hold back the Germans.
- 4 November - Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 20 December - First Battle of Champagne begins.
Arts and literature
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Sport
- 28 June - The 12th Tour de France begins.
Births
January to March
- 4 January - Jean-Pierre Vernant, historian and anthropologist (died 2007)
- 9 January - Lucien Bodard, reporter and writer on events in Asia (died 1998)
- 3 February - Michel Thomas, linguist, language teacher and decorated war veteran (died 2005)
- 17 February - René Vietto, cyclist (died 1988)
- 19 February - Jacques Dufilho, actor (died 2005)
- 28 February - Élie Bayol, motor racing driver (died 1995)
- 21 March - Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (died 1990)
April to June
- 4 April - Marguerite Duras, writer and film director (died 1996)
- 17 April - Janine Micheau, lyric soprano opera singer (died 1976)
- 25 April - Claude Mauriac, author and journalist (died 1996)
- 26 April - Lilian Rolfe, heroine of World War II (died 1945)
- 27 April - Albert Soboul, historian (died 1982)
- 28 April - Michel Mohrt, editor, essayist, novelist and historian
- 8 May - Romain Gary, novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat (died 1980)
- 14 May - Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, militant communist, resistance fighter and politician (died 2006)
- 18 May - Pierre Balmain, fashion designer (died 1982)
- 18 May - Marcel Bernard, tennis player (died 1994)
- 16 June - Louis Gabrillargues, soccer player (died 1994)
- 26 June - Antoine Argoud, twice attempted to assassinate Charles de Gaulle (died 2004)
July to September
- 5 July - Alain de Boissieu, Army chief-of-staff (died 2006)
- 5 July - Jean Tabaud, artist (died 1996)
- 21 July - Philippe Ariès, medievalist and historian (died 1984)
- 30 July - André Nocquet, aikido teacher (died 1999)
- 31 July - Louis de Funès, actor (died 1983)
- 19 August
- Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1993)
- Raymond Marcellin, politician (died 2004)
- 20 August - Yann Goulet, sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany (died 1999)
- 30 August - Jean Bottéro, historian (died 2007)
- 13 September - Henri Curiel, political activist, assassinated (died 1978)
- 23 September - Maurice Limat, science fiction author (died 2002)
October to December
- 22 October - André Neher, Jewish scholar and philosopher (died 1988)
- 13 November - Henri Langlois, pioneer of film preservation and restoration (died 1977)
- 21 November - Henri Laborit, physician, writer and philosopher (died 1995)
- 4 December - Claude Renoir, cinematographer (died 1993)
- 5 December - Odette Joyeux, actress and writer (died 2000)
- 18 December - Aimé Teisseire, military officer (died 2008)
Deaths
- 18 January - Georges Picquart, army officer and Minister of War, exposed the truth in the Dreyfus Affair (born 1854)
- 30 January - Paul Déroulède, author and politician (born 1846)
- 25 March - Frédéric Mistral, poet, shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 (born 1830)
- 31 July - Jean Jaurès, socialist and pacifist (assassinated) (born 1859)
- 3 August - Louis Couturat, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist (born 1868)
- 4 August - Hubertine Auclert, feminist and campaigner for women's suffrage (born 1848)
- 4 August - Jules Lemaître, critic and dramatist (born 1853)
- 3 September - Albéric Magnard, composer (born 1865)
- 6 September - Alfred Mayssonnié
- 16 September - Louis Bach
- 23 September - Gaston Lane
- 26 September - Alain-Fournier, author and soldier (born 1886)
- 2 October - Joé Anduran