- 1918 in France
"See also:"
1917 in France ,
other events of 1918,1919 in France .----
Events from the year
1918 inFrance .Events
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21 March - Second Battle of the Somme begins.
*23 March - The giant German cannon, the so-calledParis Gun , begins to shellParis from 114 km (75 miles) away.
*27 May -Third Battle of the Aisne begins.
*1 June -Battle of Belleau Wood begins.
*6 June - Third Battle of the Aisne ends with the German advance halted after initial gains.
*26 June - Battle of Belleau Wood ends in Allied victory.
*15 July -Second Battle of the Marne begins, last major German offensive on the Western Front.
*18 July -22 July - Battle of Soissons.
*5 August - Second Battle of the Marne ends with Allied victory.
*8 August -Battle of Amiens begins.
*12 September - British victory inBattle of Havrincourt .
*12 September -15 September -Battle of Saint-Mihiel , Allied victory.
*18 September - British victory in theBattle of Épehy .
*8 October -10 October - Battle of Cambrai, decisive Allied victory.
*7 November -Anglo-French Declaration signed between France and the United Kingdom, agreeing to implement a "complete and final liberation" of countries that had been part of theOttoman Empire .
*11 November - Battle of Amiens ends, when the the armistice is signed.Births
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25 April -Alain Savary , politician and Minister (d.1988).
*25 April -Gérard de Vaucouleurs ,astronomer (d.1995).
*26 June -Roger Voisin , trumpeter (d.2008).
*26 August -Marcel Bleibtreu , Trotskyist activist and theorist (d.2001).
*14 September -Paul Bonneau , composer (d.1995).
*30 September -René Rémond , historian and political economist (d.2007).
*6 October -André Pilette , motor racing driver (d.1993).
*16 October -Louis Althusser , Marxist philosopher (d.1990).
*8 December -Gérard Souzay , baritone (d.2004).
*16 December -Pierre Delanoë ,songwriter /lyricist (d.2006).
*30 December -Lucien Leduc , soccer player and manager (d.2004).Full date unknown
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Madeleine Giteau , historian (d.2005).
*Gilbert Martineau , author and curator of the French properties onSt Helena (d.1995).
*Marcel Mouly , artist (d.2008).
*Roger Trézel , bridge player (d.1986).Deaths
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9 January -Charles-Émile Reynaud , science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (b.1844).
*25 March -Claude Debussy , composer (b.1862).
*5 October - Roland Garros, aviator andWorld War I fighter pilot (b.1888).
*13 October -Marcel Deprez ,electrical engineer (b.1843).
*9 November -Guillaume Apollinaire , poet, writer and art critic (b.1880).
*3 December -Étienne Destot ,radiologist andanatomist (b.1864).
*22 December -Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais ,entomologist (b.1843).Full date unknown
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Henri Chantavoine , writer (b.1850).
*Émile Étienne Guimet , industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (b.1836).
*Thérèse Humbert , fraudster (b.1856).References
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