1897 in France

"See also:"
1896 in France,
other events of 1897,
1898 in France.

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Events from the year 1897 in France.

Events

*9 December - First issue of the feminist newspaper "La Fronde" is published by Marguerite Durand.

Arts and Literature

*28 December - The play "Cyrano de Bergerac", by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.

Births

January to June

*21 January - René Iché, sculptor (d.1954).
*30 March - Raymond Borderie, film producer (d.1982).
*4 April - Pierre Fresnay, actor (d.1975).
*27 May - Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist (d.1985).

July to September

*3 July - Charles Tillon, politician (d.1993).
*25 July - André Muffang, chess master (d.1989).
*2 August - Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (d.1990).
*10 September - Georges Bataille, writer (d.1962).
*12 September - Pierre Courant, politician (d.1965).
*12 September - Irène Joliot-Curie, scientist, shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 (d.1956).

October to December

*3 October - Louis Aragon, poet and novelist (d.1982).
*16 October - Louis de Cazenave, at the time of his death, the oldest French poilu still alive (d.2008).
*27 November - André Couder, optician and astronomer (d.1979).
*3 December - André Marie, politician and Prime Minister of France (d.1974).
*7 December - Lazare Ponticelli, last surviving official French veteran of the First World War (d.2008).
*19 December - Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime (d.1980).
*20 December - Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (d.1972).
*25 December - Noël Delberghe, water polo player and Olympic medallist (d.1965).

Full date unknown

*Aimée Antoinette Camus, botanist (d.1965).
*Norbert Casteret, caver and adventurer (d.1987).
*Martha Desrumeaux, militant communist and member of the French Resistance (d.1982).
*Georges Périnal, cinematographer (d.1965).
*Michel Saint-Denis, actor, theatre director, and drama theorist (d.1971).

Deaths

*13 January - Charles Brun, naval engineer (b.1821).
*19 June - Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (b.1827).
*5 July - Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian (b.1818).
*30 September - Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (b.1873).
*6 November - Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (b.1817).
*16 December - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (b.1840).

Full date unknown

*Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (b.1819).
*Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard, general (b.1821).
*Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician (b.1836).
*François-Louis Français, painter (b.1814).
*Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (b.1819).
*Louis Pierre Mouillard, engineer (b.1834).

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