1902 in France
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See also: | Other events of 1902 History of France • Timeline • Years |
Events from the year 1902 in France.
Incumbents
- President: Émile Loubet
- President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (until 7 June), Emile Combes (starting 7 June)
Events
- 13 April - A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.
- 27 April - Legislative Election held.
- 11 May - Legislative Election held.
Arts and literature
- January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.
- George Melies performs play Voyage to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune)
Births
January–June
- 11 January - Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (died 1986)
- 13 January - Raymond Ruyer, philosopher (died 1987)
- 18 January - Émile Aillaud, architect (died 1988)
- 25 January - André Beaufre, colonel (died 1975)
- 29 January - Arlette Marchal, actress (died 1984)
- 8 February - André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (died 2004)
- 26 February - Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (died 1991)
- 9 March - Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (died 1945)
- 13 March - Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (died 1999)
- 14 March - Henri Barbé, communist (died 1966)
- 16 March - Louis Couffignal, mathematician and cybernetics pioneer (died 1966)
- 22 March - Madeleine Milhaud, actress (died 2008)
- 29 March - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (died 1967)
- 4 April - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (died 1969)
- 9 April - Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (died 2000)
- 3 May - Alfred Kastler, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
- 7 May - Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (died 2001)
- 8 May - André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (died 1994)
- 27 May - Émile Benveniste, structural linguist (died 1976)
- 2 June - Georges Coudray, politician (died 1998)
- 15 June - Pierre Béarn, writer (died 2004)
- 28 June - Pierre Brunet, figure skater (died 1991)
July–December
- 6 July - Louis Vola, double bass player (died 1990)
- 16 July - Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (died 1989)
- 9 August - Zino Francescatti, violinist (died 1991)
- 11 August - Christian de Castries, military officer (died 1991)
- 16 August - Gilbert Gérintès, rugby union player (died 1968)
- 24 August - Fernand Braudel, historian (died 1985)
- 28 August - Jean Favard, mathematician (died 1965)
- 15 October - André Prudhommeaux, anarchist bookstore owner (died 1968)
- 20 October - René Floriot, lawyer (died 1975).
- 31 October - Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (died 1970)
- 4 November - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (died 1996)
- 16 November - Paul Bontemps, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1981)
- 20 November - Jean Painlevé, film director (died 1989)
- 31 December - Marcel Bidot, cyclist (died 1995)
Full date unknown
- Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (died 1988)
Deaths
- 26 January- Noël Ballay, explorer, colonial administrator and poet (born 1847])
- 6 February - Clémence Royer, scholar (born 1830)
- 17 February - Marie-Louise Gagneur, feminist (born 1832)
- 12 April - Marie Alfred Cornu, physicist (born 1841)
- 15 April - Jules Dalou, sculptor (born 1838)
- 4 July - Hervé Faye, astronomer (born 1814)
- 8 August - James Tissot, painter (born 1836)
- 29 September - Émile Zola, writer (born 1840)
- 7 December – Pierre Paul Dehérain, chemist and botanist (born 1830)
Full date unknown
- Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (born 1820)