1905 in France
Events from the year 1905 in France.
Incumbents
- President: Émile Loubet
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- * until 12 March: Emile Combes
- * 12 March-25 October: Maurice Rouvier
- * starting 25 October: Georges Clemenceau
Events
- 24 January – Maurice Rouvier forms a government as the new Prime Minister of France.
- February – Fierce storm on the Calvados coast.
- 31 March – German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis.
- 13 May – Mata Hari debuts in Paris.
- 14 July – The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons.
- October – The Fauvist artists, notably Henri Matisse, first exhibit, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
- 9 December – 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State is passed, enacting laïcité.
- Louis Delâge produces the first Delage automobile in Levallois-Perret.
- Renault Type AG taxicab begins production at Billancourt and 1,500 are ordered for use in Paris.
Arts
- André Derain - Montagnes à Collioure
- Henri Matisse
- *La Raie verte
- *Landscape at Collioure
- *Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure
- *Les toits de Collioure
- *La femme au chapeau
- Jean Metzinger - Baigneuses: Deux nus dans un paysage exotique
- Pablo Picasso
- *Acrobate et jeune Arlequin
- *Au Lapin Agile
- *Famille d'acrobates avec singe
- *Famille de saltimbanques
- *Garçon à la pipe
- *Jeune femme en chemise
- *Girl on a Ball
- *Les Noces de Pierrette
- *Fillette à la corbeille fleurie
- Robert Antoine Pinchon - Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant
- Henri Rousseau - Le lion ayant faim se jette sur l'antilope
- Paul Signac
- *Entrance to the [Grand Canal, Venice (Signac)|Le Grand Canal à Venise]
- *The Lagoon of Saint Mark, Venice
- *''Le Sentier des Douanes''
Film
- Alice Guy-Blaché & Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset - Esmeralda
- Georges Méliès
- * Le Diable noir
- * La Chaise à porteurs enchantée
- * Le Dirigeable fantastique ou [le Cauchemar d'un inventeur]
- * Les Cartes vivantes
- * L'Île de Calypso
- * ''Le Palais des mille et une nuits''
Literature
Music
- Claude Debussy
- * Suite bergamasque
- * La mer
- Reynaldo Hahn - Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este
- Maurice Ravel - Sonatine
- Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello Sonata No. 2
- Florent Schmitt - ''Reflets d'Allemagne''
Sport
- 9-30 July – Third Tour de France, won by Louis Trousselier.
Births
January to March
- 17 January – Louis Armand, engineer
- 21 January – Christian Dior, fashion designer
- 7 February
- *Paul Nizan, philosopher and writer
- *René de Possel, mathematician
- 8 February – Andre Richaume, archetier/bowmaker
- 3 March – Marie Glory, actress
- 14 March – Raymond Aron, philosopher, sociologist and political scientist
- 20 March – Jean Galia, boxer and pioneering rugby footballer
- 28 March – René Maheu, professor of philosophy and Director General of UNESCO
April to June
- 2 April – Edmond Jouhaud, one of four generals who staged the Algiers putsch of 1961
- 4 April – Eugène Bozza, composer
- 5 April – Waldeck Rochet, politician
- 13 April – Pierre Schneiter, politician
- 14 April – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French Resistance member
- 24 April – Pierre Chevalier, caver and mountaineer
- 6 May – René Dreyfus, motor racing driver
- 14 May – Jean Daniélou, theologian and historian
- 15 May – Albert Dubout, cartoonist, illustrator, painter and sculptor
- 11 June – Paul Wormser, Olympic fencer
- 20 June – Hélène Bouvier, operatic mezzo-soprano
- 21 June
- * Jacques Goddet, sports journalist and Tour de France director
- * Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic
July to September
- 25 July – Georges Grignard, motor racing driver
- 29 July – Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor
- 30 July – Jeanne-Marie Darré, pianist
- 8 August – André Jolivet, composer
- 9 August – Pierre Klossowski, writer, translator and artist
- 20 August – André Giriat, rower and Olympic medallist
- 2 September – Marcel Galey, footballer
- 5 September – Maurice Challe, general
October to December
- 8 October – André Rollet, footballer
- 10 October – Armand Marcelle, rower and Olympic medallist
- 11 October – Jean-Marie Villot, cardinal
- 23 October – Claude de Cambronne, aircraft manufacturer
- 24 October – Pierre Frank, Trotskyist leader
- 18 November – Paul Paillole, soldier
- 29 November – Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic archbishop
- 22 December – Pierre Brasseur, actor
- 25 December – Étienne Mattler, international soccer player
- 31 December – Guy Mollet, politician
Full date unknown
- Jacques Baron, poet.
- Albert-Félix de Lapparent, palaeontologist and Jesuit priest
- René Taupin, translator, critic and academic
Deaths
January to June
- 4 February – Louis-Ernest Barrias, sculptor
- 5 February – Antoine Alphonse Chassepot, gunsmith and inventor
- 24 March – Jules Verne, author
- 26 May – Alphonse James de Rothschild, banker and philanthropist
- 1 June – Émile Delahaye, automotive pioneer
- 4 June – Edme-Armand-Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier, politician
July to December
- 9 August – Placide Louis Chapelle, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
- 19 August – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter
- 13 September – René Goblet, politician, Prime Minister of France
- 14 September – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer
- 25 September – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, politician
- 12 December – François Paul Meurice, dramatist