1911 in France

"See also:"
1910 in France,
other events of 1911,
1912 in France.

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Events from the year 1911 in France.

Incumbents

Events

*1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir.
*25 September - French battleship "Liberté" explodes at anchor in Toulon.
*21 December - First robbery of the Bonnot gang.
*Champagne Riots.

Arts and Literature

*22 August - Theft of "Mona Lisa" discovered in Louvre. (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned 1913).
*7 September - Poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and jailed on suspicion of stealing the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre. He is later released.

port

*2 July - The ninth Tour de France begins.
*30 July - Tour de France ends, won by Gustave Garrigou.

Births

January to June

*5 January - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (d.2001).
*15 January - Jean Talairach, neurosurgeon (d.2007).
*16 January - Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (d.1996).
*18 January - Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (d.1988).
*22 January - André Roussin, playwright (d.1987).
*24 January - René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic (d.1985).
*30 January - René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1983).
*2 February - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, organist, composer and architect (d.1982).
*14 February - Jean-Louis Nicot, Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch (d.2004).
*7 April - Hervé Bazin, writer (d.1996).
*9 April - Paul Coste-Floret, politician (d.1979).
*2 May - Edmond Pagès, cyclist (d.1987).
*17 May - André Jaunet, flautist (d.1988).
*24 May - Michel Pécheux, fencer (d.1985).
*6 June - Jean Cayrol, poet and publisher (d.2005).
*15 June - Joseph Alcazar, international soccer player (d.1979).

July to September

*5 July - Georges Pompidou, President of France (d.1974).
*23 July - Jean Fontenay, cyclist (d.1975).
*18 August - Jacques Wertheimer, businessman (d.1996).
*25 August - André Leroi-Gourhan, archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist (d.1986).
*7 September - Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (d.1986).

October to December

*12 October - Louis de Guiringaud, politician and Minister (d.1982).
*13 October - André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (d.1988).
*1 November - Henri Troyat, author, biographer, historian and novelist (d.2007).
*22 November - Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (d.1993).
*8 December - Sauveur Ducazeaux, cyclist (d.1987).
*21 December - Yves Godard, military officer (d.1975).
*25 December - Louise Bourgeois, artist and sculptor.
*28 December - Gustave Malécot, mathematician (d.1998).
*29 December - Bernard Saint-Hillier, General (d.2004).

Full date unknown

*Yolande Beekman, World War II heroine (executed) (d.1944).
*Louis Dumont, anthropologist (d.1998).
*André Guinier, physicist (d.2000).
*René Hardy, French Resistance member (d.1987).
*André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist (d.1996).
*Louis Henry, historian (d.1991).
*Laurette Séjourné, archeologist and ethnologist (d.2003).

Deaths

*24 March - Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist (b.1824).
*7 June - Maurice Rouvier, statesman (b.1842).
*8 December - Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (b.1837).

References