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1912 in France
Summary
Events from the year
1912 in France
.
←
1911
1910
1909
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1912
in
France
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1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
Decades:
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
See also:
Other events of 1912
History of France
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
President
:
Armand Fallières
President of the Council of Ministers
:
Joseph Caillaux
(until 21 January),
Raymond Poincaré
(starting 21 January)
Events
edit
13 January –
Raymond Poincaré
forms a coalition government, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.
30 March –
Treaty of Fez
, Sultan
Abdelhafid
gives up the
sovereignty
of
Morocco
, making it a
protectorate
of France.
10 April –
RMS
Titanic
embarks passengers from tenders at
Cherbourg Harbour
for the only time.
Arts and literature
edit
Marcel Duchamp paints
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
.
Sport
edit
26 June –
1912 French Grand Prix
, won by
Georges Boillot
driving a Peugeot.
[1]
30 June–28 July – 10th
Tour de France
, won by
Odiel Defraye
.
Births
edit
January to March
edit
6 January –
Jacques Ellul
, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (died 1994)
15 January –
Michel Debré
, politician and first
Prime Minister
of the
Fifth Republic
(died 1996)
18 January –
David Rousset
, writer and political activist (died 1997)
3 February –
Jacques Soustelle
,
anthropologist
(died 1990)
7 February –
Alfred Desenclos
, composer (died 1971)
7 February –
Amédée Fournier
, cyclist (died 1992)
11 February –
Jacques Corrèze
, businessman and politician (died 1991)
12 February –
Pierre Jaminet
, cyclist (died 1968)
20 February –
Pierre Boulle
, novelist (died 1994)
28 March –
Léon Damas
,
poet
and
politician
(died 1978)
April to June
edit
12 April –
Georges Franju
,
filmmaker
(died 1987)
14 April –
Robert Doisneau
,
photographer
(died 1994)
19 April –
Raymond Pichard
, Dominican priest and television presenter (died 1992)
21 April –
Marcel Camus
,
film director
(died 1982)
28 April –
Odette Sansom
,
World War II
heroine (died 1995)
16 May –
Alfred Aston
, international soccer player (died 2003)
23 May –
Jean Françaix
, composer, pianist, and orchestrator (died 1997)
29 May –
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
, fourth managing director of the
International Monetary Fund
(died 1994)
30 May –
Roger Courtois
, international soccer player (died 1972)
8 June –
Roger Michelot
, boxer (died 1993)
15 June –
Alix Combelle
,
swing
jazz
tenor saxophonist
,
clarinetist
and
bandleader
(died 1978)
29 June –
Lucie Aubrac
, World War II Resistance fighter (died 2007)
29 June –
Émile Peynaud
,
oenologist
and researcher (died 2004)
July to December
edit
18 July –
Max Rousié
, rugby league and rugby union footballer (died 1959)
5 August –
Abbé Pierre
, priest and founder of Emmaus movement (died 2007)
26 August –
Léo Marjane
, born Thérèse Maria Léonie Gendebien, popular singer (died 2016)
8 September –
Marie-Dominique Philippe
, Dominican philosopher and theologian (died 2006)
14 September –
Jean Lescure
, poet (died 2005)
3 November –
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
, member of the
French Resistance
(died 1996)
13 November –
Claude Pompidou
, philanthropist, wife of
President of France
Georges Pompidou
(died 2007)
21 November –
Pierre Grimal
, historian and classicist (died 1996)
Full date unknown
edit
Gérard Albouy
,
milliner
(died 1985)
Paul Petard
,
botanist
(died 1980)
Deaths
edit
16 January –
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée
, philosopher (born
1838
)
14 April –
Henri Brisson
, statesman and
Prime minister of France
(born 1835)
12 June –
Frédéric Passy
,
economist
, joint winner (with
Henry Dunant
) of first
Nobel Peace Prize
, 1901 (born 1822)
16 June –
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
, publicist and historian (born
1842
)
17 July –
Henri Poincaré
, mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science (born 1854)
12 September –
Pierre-Hector Coullié
, Archbishop of Lyon (born
1829
)
Full date unknown
edit
Magloire-Désiré Barthet
, Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia (born
1832
)
Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy
,
entomologist
(born 1832)
See also
edit
List of French films of 1912
References
edit
^
Higham, Peter (1995).
The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing
. Guinness Publishing. p. 194.
ISBN
0-85112-642-1.