1901 in France

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See also:	Other events of 1901 Timeline of French history

Events from the year 1901 in France.

Events

• 10 August - Moberly-Jourdain incident.

Arts and literature

• 17 March - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

Sport

• 1 January - The French rugby team plays its first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks.

Births

January to March

• 1 January - Marcel Balsa, motor racing driver (died 1984)
• 8 January - Eugène Constant, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1971)
• 19 January - Henri Daniel-Rops, writer and historian (died 1965)
• 24 January - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, painter, commercial poster artist and typeface designer (died 1968)
• 20 February
  • Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1977)
  • René Dubos, microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist and humanist (died 1982)
• 21 February
  • Albert Dupouy, rugby union player (died 1973)
  • Pierre Lewden, athlete (died 1989)
• 17 March - Alexandre Bioussa, rugby union player (died 1966)
• 26 March - Maurice Dorléac, actor (died 1979)

April to June

• 7 April - André Trocmé, pastor who aided Jewish refugees (died 1971)
• 8 April - Jean Prouvé, architect and designer (died 1984)
• 13 April - Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor (died 1981)
• 15 April - René Pleven, politician (died 1993)
• 20 April - Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (died 1990)
• 24 April - René Le Hénaff, film editor and director (died 2005)
• 15 May - Jacques Natanson, writer (died 1975)
• 18 May- Henri Sauguet, composer (died 1989)
• 25 May
  • Jean Borthayre, operatic baritone (died 1984)
  • André Girard, painter, poster-maker and Resistance member (died 1968)
• 31 May - Charles Brunier, convicted murderer and veteran of the First and Second World Wars who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon (died 2007)
• 16 June - Henri Lefebvre, sociologist and philosopher (died 1991)
• 24 June - Marcel Mule, classical saxophonist (died 2001)
• 26 June - Jean Boyer, film director and author (died 1965)

July to September

• 20 July - Gaston Waringhien, linguist, lexicographer and Esperantist (died 1991)
• 31 July - Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (died 1985)
• 5 August - Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP (died 2000)
• 17 August - Henri Tomasi, composer and conductor (died 1971)
• 18 August — Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (died 1999)
• 19 August - René Capitant, lawyer and politician (died 1970)
• 27 August - Pierre Villon, member of the French Communist Party and of the French Resistance (died 1980)
• 29 August - Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore (died 1977)
• 8 September - Jacques Perret, writer (died 1992)
• 16 September
  • Andrée Brunet, figure skater (died 1993)
  • Louis Joxe, statesman and Minister (died 1991)
• 25 September — Robert Bresson, film director (died 1999)

October to December

• 3 October - François Le Lionnais, chemical engineer and mathematician (died 1984)
• 12 October - Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Cardinal (died 1994)
• 3 November - André Malraux, author, adventurer and statesman (died 1976)
• 14 December - Henri Cochet, tennis player (died 1987)

Full date unknown

• Roland Ansieau, graphic artist (died 1987)
• Corentin Louis Kervran, scientist (died 1983)
• Louis Poterat, lyricist (died 1982)

Deaths

• January - Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist (born 1825)
• 5 January - Pierre Potain, cardiologist (born 1825)
• 13 January - Gaspard Adolphe Chatin, sician, mycologist and botanist (born 1813)
• 16 January - Jules Barbier, poet and librettist (born 1825)
• 9 February - Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (born 1822)
• 17 March - Jean Charles Cazin, landscape painter and ceramicist (born 1840)
• 29 March - Xavier Barbier de Montault, theologian (born 1830)
• 9 June - Casimir Marie Gaudibert, astronomer and selenographer (born 1823)
• 12 August - Ernest de Jonquières, mathematician (born 1820)
• 17 August - Edmond Audran, composer (born 1840)
• 9 September - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (born 1864)
• date unknown
  • Henriette Browne, painter and traveller (born 1829)
  • Charles Jalabert, painter (born 1819)