1918 in France

"See also:"
1917 in France,
other events of 1918,
1919 in France.

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Events from the year 1918 in France.

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 (75 miles) 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 the armistice is signed.

Births

*25 April - Alain Savary, politician and Minister (d.1988).
*25 April - Gérard de Vaucouleurs, astronomer (d.1995).
*26 June - Roger Voisin, trumpeter (d.2008).
*26 August - Marcel Bleibtreu, Trotskyist activist and theorist (d.2001).
*14 September - Paul Bonneau, composer (d.1995).
*30 September - René Rémond, historian and political economist (d.2007).
*6 October - André Pilette, motor racing driver (d.1993).
*16 October - Louis Althusser, Marxist philosopher (d.1990).
*8 December - Gérard Souzay, baritone (d.2004).
*16 December - Pierre Delanoë, songwriter/lyricist (d.2006).
*30 December - Lucien Leduc, soccer player and manager (d.2004).

Full date unknown

*Madeleine Giteau, historian (d.2005).
*Gilbert Martineau, author and curator of the French properties on St Helena (d.1995).
*Marcel Mouly, artist (d.2008).
*Roger Trézel, bridge player (d.1986).

Deaths

*9 January - Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (b.1844).
*25 March - Claude Debussy, composer (b.1862).
*5 October - Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (b.1888).
*13 October - Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer (b.1843).
*9 November - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (b.1880).
*3 December - Étienne Destot, radiologist and anatomist (b.1864).
*22 December - Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais, entomologist (b.1843).

Full date unknown

*Henri Chantavoine, writer (b.1850).
*Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (b.1836).
*Thérèse Humbert, fraudster (b.1856).

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