1912 in France

Events from the year 1912 in France.

Incumbents

13 January – Raymond Poincaré forms a coalition government, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.
30 March – Treaty of Fez, Sultan Abdelhafid gives up the sovereignty of Morocco, making it a protectorate of France.
10 April – embarks passengers from tenders at Cherbourg Harbour for the only time.

6 January – Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian
15 January – Michel Debré, politician and first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic
18 January – David Rousset, writer and political activist
3 February – Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist
7 February – Alfred Desenclos, composer
7 February – Amédée Fournier, cyclist
11 February – Jacques Corrèze, businessman and politician
12 February – Pierre Jaminet, cyclist
20 February – Pierre Boulle, novelist
28 March – Léon Damas, poet and politician

12 April – Georges Franju, filmmaker
14 April – Robert Doisneau, photographer
19 April – Raymond Pichard, Dominican priest and television presenter
21 April – Marcel Camus, film director
28 April – Odette Sansom, World War II heroine
16 May – Alfred Aston, international soccer player
23 May – Jean Françaix, composer, pianist, and orchestrator
29 May – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund
30 May – Roger Courtois, international soccer player
8 June – Roger Michelot, boxer
15 June – Alix Combelle, swing jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader
29 June – Lucie Aubrac, World War II Resistance fighter
29 June – Émile Peynaud, oenologist and researcher

18 July – Max Rousié, rugby league and rugby union footballer
5 August – Abbé Pierre, priest and founder of Emmaus movement
26 August – Léo Marjane, born Thérèse Maria Léonie Gendebien, popular singer
8 September – Marie-Dominique Philippe, Dominican philosopher and theologian
14 September – Jean Lescure, poet
3 November – Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, member of the French Resistance
13 November – Claude Pompidou, philanthropist, wife of President of France Georges Pompidou
21 November – Pierre Grimal, historian and classicist