Events from the year 1912 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 13 January â Raymond Poincaré forms a coalition government, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.
Arts and literature
Film
Literature
Music
Sport
Births
January to March
- 6 January â Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (died 1994)
- 15 January â Michel Debré, politician and first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic (died 1996)
- 18 January â David Rousset, writer and political activist (died 1997)
- 3 February â Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist (died 1990)
- 7 February â Alfred Desenclos, composer (died 1971)
- 7 February â Amédée Fournier, cyclist (died 1992)
- 11 February â Jacques Corrèze, businessman and politician (died 1991)
- 12 February â Pierre Jaminet, cyclist (died 1968)
- 20 February â Pierre Boulle, novelist (died 1994)
- 28 March â Léon Damas, poet and politician (died 1978)
April to June
- 12 April â Georges Franju, filmmaker (died 1987)
- 14 April â Robert Doisneau, photographer (died 1994)
- 19 April â Raymond Pichard, Dominican priest and television presenter (died 1992)
- 21 April â Marcel Camus, film director (died 1982)
- 28 April â Odette Sansom, World War II heroine (died 1995)
- 16 May â Alfred Aston, international soccer player (died 2003)
- 23 May â Jean Françaix, composer, pianist, and orchestrator (died 1997)
- 29 May â Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (died 1994)
- 30 May â Roger Courtois, international soccer player (died 1972)
- 8 June â Roger Michelot, boxer (died 1993)
- 15 June â Alix Combelle, swing jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader (died 1978)
- 29 June â Lucie Aubrac, World War II Resistance fighter (died 2007)
- 29 June â ÃÂmile Peynaud, oenologist and researcher (died 2004)
July to December
- 18 July â Max Rousié, rugby league and rugby union footballer (died 1959)
- 5 August â Abbé Pierre, priest and founder of Emmaus movement (died 2007)
- 26 August â Léo Marjane, born Thérèse Maria Léonie Gendebien, popular singer (died 2016)
- 8 September â Marie-Dominique Philippe, Dominican philosopher and theologian (died 2006)
- 14 September â Jean Lescure, poet (died 2005)
- 3 November â Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, member of the French Resistance (died 1996)
- 13 November â Claude Pompidou, philanthropist, wife of President of France Georges Pompidou (died 2007)
- 21 November â Pierre Grimal, historian and classicist (died 1996)
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Deaths
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