1900 in France

Events from the year 1900 in France.

Incumbents

The first Guide Michelin is published for motorists in France.
2 February – First performance of Gustave Charpentier's opera, Louise.
31 March – The length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1 April – Every French policeman is assigned to carry a gun.
14 April–12 November – Exposition Universelle, a world's fair, is staged in Paris.
21 April – Battle of Kousséri: French troops decisively defeat forces of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in Chad, achieving the objective of linking all French possessions in Western Africa.
27 June – Treaty of Paris is signed between the Spanish Empire and the French Empire by which Río Muni is relieved of all conflicting claims.
19 July – The first line of the Paris Métro is inaugurated.
21 November – Claude Monet's paintings shown at Gallery Durand-Ruel in Paris

3 January – Marcel Gobillot, cyclist and Olympic medallist
5 January – Yves Tanguy, surrealist painter
6 January – Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, journalist, politician and French Resistance member
7 January – Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, lover and later married to Samuel Beckett
8 January – François de Menthon, politician and professor of law
11 January – Benoît Fauré, cyclist
22 January – René Pellos, artist
24 January – René Guillot, author
4 February – Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter
11 February – Raymond Cambefort, one of the last three fully verified World War I veterans living in France
21 February – Madeleine Renaud, actress
6 March – Henri Jeanson, writer and journalist
8 March – Pierre David-Weill, investment banker
19 March – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate

4 July – Robert Desnos, surrealist poet
12 July – Marcel Paul, trade unionist and communist politician
17 July – Marcel Dalio, actor
19 July – Pierre Coquelin de Lisle, sport shooter and Olympic gold medallist
26 July – Jacques Février, pianist
11 August – Georges Limbour, writer
26 August – Georges Neveux, Ukrainian-born dramatist and poet
6 September – Marc Bernard, writer.
30 September – Pierre Yvert, philatelic editor
9 October – Henri Lauvaux, athlete and Olympic medallist
13 October – Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget, actress and Princess of Monaco
21 October – Andrée Boisson, Olympic fencer
November – Émile Gagnan, engineer and inventor
15 December – Hellé Nice, model, dancer and motor racing driver
23 December – Marie Bell, actress and stage director