Events from the year 1951 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Sport
Births
Deaths
- 7 January
- René Guénon, orientalist and philosopher (born 1886)
- Lucien Cuénot, biologist (born 1866)
- 26 January â Henri Bard, international soccer player (born 1892)
- 19 February â André Gide, author and winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 (born 1869)
- 2 June â ÃÂmile Chartier, philosopher, journalist and pacifist (born 1868)
- 21 June â Gustave Sandras, artistic gymnast (born 1872)
- 23 July â Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, later Chief of State of Vichy France (born 1856)
- 11 November â César Vezzani, opera singer (born 1888)
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