1904 in France

"See also:"
1903 in France,
other events of 1904,
1905 in France.

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Events from the year 1904 in France.

Events

*8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.

Arts and Literature

port

*2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
*24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Henri Cornet.

Births

January to March

*13 January - Jean de Beaumont, sport shooter (d.2002).
*14 January - Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (d.1967).
*15 February - Louis Robert, historian and author (d.1985).
*27 February - André Leducq, cyclist, twice Tour de France winner (d.1980).
*1 March - Paul Dubreil, mathematician (d.1994).
*13 March - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (d.2001).

April to June

*8 April - Yves Congar, priest and theologian (d.1995).
*12 April - Arsène Alancourt, cyclist (d.1965).
*21 April - Jean Hélion, painter and author (d.1987).
*25 April - René Cogny, General (d.1968).
*17 May - Jean Gabin, actor (d.1976).
*18 May - François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (d.1994).
*19 May - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (d.1988).
*25 May - Marcel Thil, world champion boxer (d.1968).
*8 June - Jean-Jérôme Adam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Libreville (d.1981).
*11 June - Gaston Charlot, chemist (d.1994).

July to September

*2 July - René Lacoste, tennis player (d.1996).
*8 July - Henri Cartan, mathematician.
*24 July - Leo Arnaud, composer of film scores (d.1991).
*4 September - Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (d.1994).
*18 September - Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (d.1994).

October to December

*8 October - Yves Giraud-Cabantous, motor racing driver (d.1973).
*13 October - Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (d.1967).
*14 October - Christian Pineau, French Resistance leader and politician (d.1995).
*12 November - Jacques Tourneur, film director (d.1977).
*22 November - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 (d.2000).
*6 December - Ève Curie, author and writer, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (d.2007).
*12 December - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor (d.1981).
*21 December - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (d.2001).
*31 December - Charles Fauvel, aircraft designer (d.1979).

Full date unknown

*Pierre Allain, climber (d.2000).
*Jean Berveiller, composer and organist (d.1976).
*Gabriel Loire, stained glass artist (d.1996).
*Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (d.1977).
*Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (d.1994).
*Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (d.1993).
*Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (d.1967).

Deaths

*10 January - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (b.1824).
*26 January - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (b.1819).
*19 May - Auguste Molinier, historian (b.1851).
*27 June - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (b.1821).
*25 August - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (b.1836).
*23 September - Émile Gallé, artist (b.1846).
*4 October - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (b.1834).

Full date unknown

*Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (b.1819).
*Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (b.1843).

References