1899 in France

"See also:"
1898 in France,
other events of 1899,
1900 in France.

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Events from the year 1899 in France.

Events

*16 April - Battle of Lougou, French victory in Niger.
*17 July - The French Bretonnet-Braun mission is destroyed in the Battle of Togbao, in Chad, by the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.
*19 September - Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned.
*28 October - Battle of Kouno, indecisive battle between French forces and a Muslim army led by Rabih az-Zubayr in Chad.

Arts and Literature

Births

January to March

*7 January - Francis Poulenc, composer (d.1963).
*12 January - Pierre Bernac, baritone (d.1979).
*15 January - Louis Guilloux, writer (d.1980).
*20 January - Pierre Gandon, illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (d.1990).
*23 January - Pierre Grany, athlete (d.1968).
*7 February - René Crabos, rugby union player (d.1964).
*15 February - Georges Auric, composer (d.1983).
*21 February - Yvonne Vallée, actress (d.1996).
*9 March - Jules Dewaquez, soccer player (d.1971).
*25 March - Jacques Audiberti, playwright, poet and novelist (d.1965).
*28 March - Bernard Delaire, last French naval veteran of the First World War (d.2007).

April to June

*7 April - Robert Casadesus, pianist (d.1972).
*11 April - Clément Dupont, rugby union player (d.1993).
*14 May - Pierre Victor Auger, physicist (d.1993).
*14 May - Pierre Petiteau, rugby union player (d.1974).
*15 May - Jean-Étienne Valluy, general (d.1970).
*17 May - Anita Conti, explorer, photographer and first French female oceanographer (d.1997).
*24 May - Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player (d.1938).

July to September

*5 July - Marcel Achard, playwright, screenwriter and author (d.1974).
*5 July - Marcel Arland, novelist, literary critic and journalist (d.1986).
*7 July - Jean-Albert Grégoire, car pioneer (d.1992).
*19 July - Germaine Sablon, singer and actress (d.1985).
*26 July - Édouard Bader, rugby union player (d.1983).
*9 August - Armand Salacrou, dramatist (d.1989).
*14 August - Adolphe Bousquet, rugby union player (d.1972).
*28 August - Charles Boyer, actor (d.1978).
*9 September - Brassaï, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker (d.1984).

October to December

*1 October - Joseph Guillemot, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1975).
*5 October - Georges Bidault politician and resistance leader (d.1983).
*8 October - Edmond Michelet, politician (d.1970).
*24 October - Philippe Kieffer, Naval officer (d.1962).
*30 October - Georges Capdeville, soccer referee (d.1991).
*8 December - Fernand Arnout, weightlifter and Olympic medallist (d.1974).
*8 December - François Borde, rugby union player (d.1987).
*9 December - Jean de Brunhoff, writer and illustrator (d.1937).

Full date unknown

*Youenn Drezen, Breton nationalist writer and activist (d.1972).
*Marcel Gaston Fetique, bowmaker (d.1977).
*Henri-Robert Petit, journalist, Collaborationist under the Vichy regime and far-right activist (d.1985).

Deaths

*16 February - Félix Faure, President of France (b.1841).
*16 May - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and drama critic (b.1827).
*10 June - Ernest Chausson, composer (b.1855).
*5 July - Hippolyte Lucas, entomologist (b.1814).
*11 July - Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux, literary scholar (b.1823).
*14 July - Jean-François Klobb, colonial officer (b.1857).
*20 July - Charlotte de Rothschild, socialite and painter (b.1825).

Full date unknown

*Francisque Bouillier, philosopher (b.1813).
*Henri Delaborde, art critic and painter (b.1811).

References