- Source: 1904 in France
Events from the year 1904 in France.
Incumbents
President: Émile Loubet
President of the Council of Ministers: Emile Combes
Events
23 February - First launch of a French diesel-powered submarine, Aigrette.
8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.
Global cosmetics companies are founded in Paris: Coty, by François Coty, and Garnier, by Alfred Amour Garnier.
Arts and literature
Summer - Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered foundational in his own oeuvre and the starting point of Fauvism.
Sport
2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Henri Cornet.
Births
= January to March
=7 January - Pierre Allain, climber (died 2000)
13 January - Jean de Beaumont, sport shooter (died 2002)
14 January - Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (died 1967)
4 February - Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (died 1967)
11 February - Lucile Randon, supercentenarian (died 2023)
15 February - Louis Robert, historian and author (died 1985)
24 February - Gaston Marie Jacquier, Roman Catholic prelate (died 1976)
27 February - André Leducq, cyclist, twice Tour de France winner (died 1980)
1 March - Paul Dubreil, mathematician (died 1994)
13 March - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (died 2001)
= April to June
=12 April - Arsène Alancourt, cyclist (died 1965)
13 April - Yves Congar, priest and theologian (died 1995)
21 April
Jean Hélion, painter and author (died 1987)
Gabriel Loire, stained glass artist (died 1996)
25 April - René Cogny, General (died 1968)
17 May - Jean Gabin, actor (died 1976)
18 May - François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1994)
19 May - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (died 1988)
25 May - Marcel Thil, world champion boxer (died 1968)
8 June - Jean-Jérôme Adam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Libreville (died 1981)
11 June - Gaston Charlot, chemist (died 1994)
29 June - Jean Berveiller, composer and organist (died 1976)
= July to September
=2 July - René Lacoste, tennis player (died 1996)
8 July - Henri Cartan, mathematician. (died 2008)
24 July - Leo Arnaud, composer of film scores (died 1991)
4 September - Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (died 1994)
7 September - Henri Pinault, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengdu (died 1987)
18 September - Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (died 1994)
= October to December
=8 October - Yves Giraud-Cabantous, motor racing driver (died 1973)
13 October - Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (died 1967)
14 October - Christian Pineau, French Resistance leader and politician (died 1995)
12 November
Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (died 1977)
Jacques Tourneur, film director (died 1977)
22 November - Louis Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 (died 2000)
6 December - Ève Curie, author and writer, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (died 2007)
12 December - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor (died 1981)
21 December - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (died 2001)
31 December - Charles Fauvel, aircraft designer (died 1979)
= Full date unknown
=Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (died 1994)
Deaths
10 January - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (born 1824)
26 January - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (born 1819)
3 February - Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (born 1819)
19 May - Auguste Molinier, historian (born 1851)
27 June - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (born 1821)
25 August - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (born 1836)
23 September - Émile Gallé, artist (born 1846)
4 October - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)
= Full date unknown
=Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1843)
See also
List of French films before 1910
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Marcelo Vieira
- Musik abad pertengahan
- Piala Dunia FIFA
- Ranavalona III
- Perang Dunia I
- FIFA
- Muhammad al-Idrisi
- Bafomet
- Gabriel Syveton
- Radar cuaca
- 1904 in France
- 1904
- 1904 Tour de France
- Entente Cordiale
- 1904 in film
- France at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- France
- Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1904
- 1904 in Ireland
- 1904 United States House of Representatives elections
