1909 in France

Events from the year 1909 in France.

Incumbents

20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro.
2 February - The Paris Film Congress opens. It is an attempt to form a cartel of leading European producers similar to that of the MPPC in the United States
18 April - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
25 July - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
30 July – SociÃÂ©tÃÂ© FranÃÂ§aise de teintures inoffersires, as predecessor of L'OrÃÂ©al was founded.
22 September - Three of the Chauffeurs de la Drome are executed by guillotine in Valence, DrÃÂ´me in south-west France. They were a gang responsible for a three-year campaign of theft, torture and murder in the department of DrÃÂ´me.

6 July - Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist (died 1977)
8 July - Louis Finot, international soccer player (died 1996)
15 July - Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist (died 1992)
26 July - Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician (died 1992)
5 August - Pierre Guillaumat, politician and Minister (died 1991)
11 August - Gaston Litaize, organist and composer (died 1991)
25 September - Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, film director, script-writer, playwright and author (died 1985)
27 September - Pascal Themanlys, poet, Zionist and Kabbalist (died 2000)
29 September - Jules Merviel, cyclist (died 1976)

1 October - Thierry Maulnier, journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (died 1988)
11 October - FranÃÂ§ois Tanguy-Prigent, politician and resistance fighter (died 1970)
14 October - Robert Mercier, footballer (died 1958)
28 October - Claude Bourdet, writer, journalist and politician (died 1996)
5 November - Pierre Repp, humorist and actor (died 1986)
8 November - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French Resistance leader (born 1989)
29 November - Jean Leguay, civil servant, accomplice in the deportation of Jews from France (died 1989)
2 December - Pierre Langlais, military officer (died 1986)