1906 in France

Events from the year 1906 in France.

Incumbents

President: Émile Loubet, Armand Fallières
President of the Council of Ministers:
* until 7 March: Maurice Rouvier
* 12 March – 20 October: Ferdinand Sarrien
* starting 25 October: Georges Clemenceau

Events

16 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
10 March - Courrières mine disaster: Explosion in coal mine in Courrières kills 1099.
7 April - Final agreement from Algeciras Conference is signed.
6 May - Legislative Election held.
20 May - Legislative Election held.
June - First Paris motor bus line opened by C.G.O..
12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated.
21 July - Dreyfus is reinstalled in the French Army 21 July, ending the Dreyfus Affair.
23 October - Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft performs the first publicly witnessed European unaided take-off by a heavier-than-air aircraft, in Bagatelle.

Art

Literature

Arnould Galopin - ''Doctor Omega''

Music

Isaac Albéniz - Iberia, Livre 1
Claude Debussy - Images, 1re série
Georges Enesco
* Légende
* Decet
Gabriel Fauré
* Le don silencieux
* Piano Quintet No. 1
* Barcarolle No. 7
* Impromptu No. 4
Jules Massenet - Ariane
Giacomo Puccini - Madame Butterfly
Maurice Ravel
* Miroirs
* Introduction et Allegro
* Manteau de fleurs
Camille Saint-Saëns
* L'ancêtre
* La gloire de Corneille
* Le fleuve
Edgard Varèse - ''Un grand sommeil noir''

Sport

26–27 June - 1906 French Grand Prix at Le Mans; French cars take the major prizes.
4 July - Tour de France begins.
29 July - Tour de France ends, won by René Pottier.

Births

January to June

5 January – Pierre Seghers, poet and editor
21 February – Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress
8 March – Louis Peglion, cyclist
9 March – Joseph Mauclair, cyclist
18 March – Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author
25 March – Jean Sablon, singer and actor
26 March – Henri Cadiou, painter and lithographer
27 March – Bernard Lefebvre, photographer
2 April – Maurice Thiriet, composer
6 May – André Weil, mathematician
22 May – Paul Badré, aircraft pilot and engineer
3 June – Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer, singer and actress
7 June – Alexandre Renard, Roman Catholic Cardinal
24 June – Pierre Fournier, cellist

July to September

1 July - Jean Dieudonné, mathematician
2 July - Séra Martin, middle-distance Olympic runner
6 July - Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic
7 July - Charles Vaurie, ornithologist
27 July - Roger Duchesne, actor
30 July - Alex Thépot, international soccer player
18 August - Marcel Carné, film director
6 September - Luis Federico Leloir, physician and biochemist, recipient of 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
12 September - Jacques Lacarrière, ice hockey player
30 September - Mireille Hartuch, singer, composer and actress

October to December

3 October - Raymond Triboulet, resistance fighter and politician
22 October - Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director
7 November
*Jean Leray, mathematician
*Pierre Magne, cyclist
14 November - Claude Ménard, field athlete, Olympic medallist
19 November - Jacques Leguerney, composer
16 November - Henri Charrière, convicted felon and author
10 December - Jules Ladoumègue, athlete and Olympic medallist
18 December - Ferdinand Alquié, philosopher
27 December - Andreas Feininger, French-born German-American photographer

Deaths

1 April - Léon Fairmaire, entomologist
18 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer
19 April - Pierre Curie, physicist, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics, in road accident
5 July - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter
26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat
18 October - Léon Gastinel, composer
22 October - Paul Cézanne, painter
5 September - Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist
9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic