1913 in France
Events from the year 1913 in France.
Incumbents
- President: Armand Fallières, Raymond Poincaré
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- * until 21 January: Raymond Poincaré
- * 21 January-22 March: Aristide Briand
- * 22 March-9 December: René Viviani
- * starting 9 December: Gaston Doumergue
Events
- 17 January – Raymond Poincaré is elected president
- 3 February – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.
- 29 May – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
- 20 August – 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud jumps from an airplane and lands safely.
- 23 September – Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean.
- 12 December – Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.
- 30 December – Italy returns Mona Lisa to France.
Arts
- Pierre Bonnard - Salle à manger à la campagne
- Marc Chagall - Autoportrait aux sept doigts
- Robert Delaunay - L'Équipe de Cardiff
- Albert Gleizes
- * Les Joueurs de football
- * L'Homme au hamac
- * Portrait de l'éditeur Eugène Figuière
- Dominique Lang - Le barrage
- Albert Marquet - La Citadelle à Tanger
- Jean Metzinger
- * En Canot
- * Le Fumeur
- * La Femme à l'Éventail
- Francis Picabia - ''Udnie''
Film
Literature
- Alain-Fournier - Le Grand Meaulnes
- Maurice Barrès - La colline inspirée
- Gaston Leroux - Rouletabille chez le Tsar
- Octave Mirbeau - Dingo
- Marcel Proust - ''À la recherche du temps perdu''
Music
- Claude Debussy
- * Images pour orchestre
- * Jeux
- * La boîte à joujoux
- * Syrinx
- Gabriel Fauré - 2 Pieces, Op. 104
- Maurice Ravel - Prélude, M.65
- Albert Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- * Valse gaie, Op. 139
- * La Terre Promise, Op. 140
- * 2 Chorales, Op. 141
- Erik Satie
- * Descriptions automatiques
- * Embryons desséchés
- Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps
Sport
- 29 June – Tour de France begins.
- 27 July – Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.
Births
January to March
- 5 January – Pierre Veuillot, Cardinal
- 17 February – Louis Bouyer, priest and writer
- 24 February – François Bourbotte, soccer player
- 27 February – Paul Ricoeur, philosopher
- 3 March – Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual
- 12 March – Max Leognany, artist
- 18 March – René Clément, screenwriter and film director
- 26 March – Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier
- 26 March – Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist
- 28 March – Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist
April to June
- 14 April – Jean Fournet, conductor
- 18 May – Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter
- 26 May –
- *Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist
- *André Lalande, officer
- 9 June – Jean Nicolas, international soccer player
- 18 June – Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector
- 26 June – Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician
July to December
- 12 July – Roger Testu, cartoonist
- 13 July – Fabien Galateau, cyclist
- 17 July – Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher
- July – Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette
- 31 August – Jacques Foccart, politician
- 10 October – Claude Simon, novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1985
- 13 October – Pierre Jaïs, bridge player
- 7 November – Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957
- 20 November – Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian
- 29 November – Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament
- 11 December – Jean Marais, actor
Full date unknown
- Pierre Probst, cartoonist
Deaths
- 2 January – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist
- 14 June – Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor
- 20 August – Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France
- 6 September – Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer
- 15 November – Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army
- 5 December – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright