- 1902 in France
"See also:"
1901 in France ,
other events of 1902,1903 in France .----
Events from the year
1902 inFrance .Events
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13 April - A new car speed record of 74mph is set inNice , byLeon Serpollet .
*27 April - Legislative Election held.
*11 May - Legislative Election held.Arts and Literature
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January -Alfred Loisy writes "L'évangile et l'Eglise ", which inaugurates theModernist Crisis .port
Births
January to March
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11 January -Maurice Duruflé , composer and organist (d.1986).
*18 January -Émile Aillaud , architect (d.1988).
*25 January -André Beaufre , colonel (d.1975).
*29 January -Arlette Marchal , actress (d.1984).
*8 February -André Gillois , writer and radio pioneer (d.2004).
*26 February -Jean Bruller ,writer andillustrator (d.1991).
*9 March -Elisabeth de Rothschild ,World War II heroine (d.1945).
*13 March -Louis Ducatel , politician and businessman (d.1999).
*14 March -Henri Barbé , communist (d.1966).
*22 March -Madeleine Milhaud , actress (d.2008).
*29 March -Marcel Aymé , novelist and children's writer (d.1967).April to June
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4 April -Louise Leveque de Vilmorin , novelist, poet and journalist (d.1969).
*9 April -Théodore Monod , naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (d.2000).
*3 May -Alfred Kastler ,physicist , and Nobel Prize laureate (d.1984).
*7 May -Jean-Philippe Lauer ,architect andEgyptologist (d.2001).
*8 May -André Michel Lwoff , microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (d.1994).
*2 June -Georges Coudray , politician (d.1998).
*15 June -Pierre Béarn , writer (d.2004).
*28 June - Pierre Brunet, figure skater (d.1991).July to September
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6 July -Louis Vola , double bass player (d.1990).
*16 July -Vincent Badie , lawyer and politician (d.1989).
*9 August -Zino Francescatti , violinist (d.1991).
*11 August -Christian de Castries , military officer (d.1991).
*16 August -Gilbert Gérintès , rugby union player (d.1968).
*24 August -Fernand Braudel , historian (d.1985).October to December
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20 October -René Floriot ,lawyer (d.1975).
*31 October -Marie-Laure de Noailles , patron of the arts (d.1970).
*4 November -Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger , photographer and ethnographer (d.1996).
*16 November -Paul Bontemps , athlete and Olympic medallist (d.1981).
*20 November -Jean Painlevé , film director (d.1989).
*31 December -Marcel Bidot , cyclist (d.1995).Full date unknown
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Émile Benveniste , structural linguist (d.1976).
*Louis Couffignal , mathematician andcybernetics pioneer (d.1966).
*Jean Favard , mathematician (d.1965).
*Andre Prudhommeaux , anarchist bookstore owner (d.1968).
*Raymond Ruyer , philosopher (d.1987).
*Jules Semler-Collery ,composer , conductor and teacher (d.1988).Deaths
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4 July -Hervé Faye ,astronomer (b.1814).
*8 August -James Tissot , painter (b.1836).
*29 September -Émile Zola , writer (b.1840).Full date unknown
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Alexandre Bertrand ,archaeologist (b.1820).References
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