1906 in France

Events from the year 1906 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Émile Loubet (until 18 February), Armand Fallières (starting 18 February)
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• until 7 March: Maurice Rouvier
• 12 March – 20 October: Ferdinand Sarrien
• starting 25 October: Georges Clemenceau

Events

• 16 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
• 10 March - Courrières mine disaster: Explosion in coal mine in Courrières kills 1099.
• 7 April - Final agreement from Algeciras Conference is signed.
• 6 May - Legislative Election held.
• 20 May - Legislative Election held.
• June - First Paris motor bus line opened by C.G.O. (Compagnie Générale des Omnibus).
• 12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated.
• 21 July - Dreyfus is reinstalled in the French Army 21 July, ending the Dreyfus Affair.
• 23 October - Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft performs the first publicly witnessed European unaided take-off by a heavier-than-air aircraft, in Bagatelle.

Art

• Leonetto Cappiello - Maurin Quina
• André Derain - Le Bassin de Londres
• Albert Marquet - Le Sergent de la coloniale
• Henri Matisse
• Le bonheur de vivre
• Marguerite lisant
• Les Tapis rouges
• Autoportrait
• Le Jeune Marin II
• Jean Metzinger
• Coucher de soleil no. 1
• La danse, Bacchante
• Baigneuses: Deux nus dans un paysage exotique
• Femme au Chapeau
• Pablo Picasso
• Jeune garçon au cheval
• Portrait de Gertrude Stein

Literature

• Arnould Galopin - Doctor Omega

Music

• Isaac Albéniz - Iberia, Livre 1
• Claude Debussy - Images, 1re série
• Georges Enesco
• Légende
• Decet
• Gabriel Fauré
• Le don silencieux
• Piano Quintet No. 1
• Barcarolle No. 7
• Impromptu No. 4
• Jules Massenet - Ariane
• Giacomo Puccini - Madame Butterfly (French-language version)
• Maurice Ravel
• Miroirs
• Introduction et Allegro
• Manteau de fleurs
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• L'ancêtre
• La gloire de Corneille
• Le fleuve
• Edgard Varèse - Un grand sommeil noir

Sport

• 26–27 June - 1906 French Grand Prix at Le Mans; French cars take the major prizes.
• 4 July - Tour de France begins.
• 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by René Pottier.

Births

January to June

• 5 January – Pierre Seghers, poet and editor (died 1987)
• 21 February – Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (died 1988)
• 8 March – Louis Peglion, cyclist (died 1986)
• 9 March – Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (died 1990)
• 18 March – Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (died 1967)
• 25 March – Jean Sablon, singer and actor (died 1994)
• 26 March – Henri Cadiou, painter and lithographer (died 1989)
• 27 March – Bernard Lefebvre, photographer (died 1992)
• 2 April – Maurice Thiriet, composer (died 1972)
• 6 May – André Weil, mathematician (died 1998)
• 22 May – Paul Badré, aircraft pilot and engineer (died 2000)
• 3 June – Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer, singer and actress (died 1975)
• 7 June – Alexandre Renard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1983)
• 24 June – Pierre Fournier, cellist (died 1986)

July to September

• 1 July - Jean Dieudonné, mathematician (died 1992)
• 2 July - Séra Martin, middle-distance Olympic runner (died 1993)
• 6 July - Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (died 1990)
• 7 July - Charles Vaurie, ornithologist (died 1975)
• 27 July - Roger Duchesne, actor (died 1996)
• 30 July - Alex Thépot, international soccer player (died 1989)
• 18 August - Marcel Carné, film director (died 1996)
• 6 September - Luis Federico Leloir, physician and biochemist, recipient of 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1987)
• 12 September - Jacques Lacarrière, ice hockey player (died 2005)
• 30 September - Mireille Hartuch, singer, composer and actress (died 1996)

October to December

• 3 October - Raymond Triboulet, resistance fighter and politician (died 2006)
• 22 October - Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (died 1994)
• 7 November
• Jean Leray, mathematician (died 1998)
• Pierre Magne, cyclist (died 1980)
• 14 November - Claude Ménard, field athlete, Olympic medallist (died 1980)
• 19 November - Jacques Leguerney, composer (died 1997)
• 16 November - Henri Charrière, convicted felon and author (died 1973)
• 10 December - Jules Ladoumègue, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1973)
• 18 December - Ferdinand Alquié, philosopher (died 1985)
• 27 December - Andreas Feininger, French-born German-American photographer (died 1999)

Deaths

• 1 April - Léon Fairmaire, entomologist (born 1820)
• 18 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (born 1819)
• 19 April - Pierre Curie, physicist, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics, in road accident (born 1859)
• 5 July - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter (born 1827)
• 26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat (born 1846)
• 18 October - Léon Gastinel, composer (born 1813)
• 22 October - Paul Cézanne, painter (born 1839)
• 5 September - Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (born 1839)
• 9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic (born 1849)

See also

• List of French films before 1910

References