1907 in France

Events from the year 1907 in France.

Incumbents

2 January – Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifixes in schools
11 February – The French cruiser Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
March – ESSEC Business School is founded.
12 March – The French battleship Iéna blows up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
6 April – Louis Blériot flies his new monoplane ten yards.
10 April – French doctors announce the discovery of a new serum to cure dysentery.
18 April – Georges Clemenceau orders dismissal of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest.
17 May – Several thousand riot during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers at Béziers in the south of France.
9 June – Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's combined aeroplane and airship is wrecked in its first trial
28 June – Georges Clemenceau wins a majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
12 July – Major Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his rehabilitation.
14 July – President Armand Fallières narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
10 August – Peking to Paris motor race concludes.
18 December – Louis Blériot's demonstrations of his new aeroplane at Issy end in its destruction.

1 October – Maurice Bardèche, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist
4 October – Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist
5 October – Jean Louis, costume designer
8 October – Pierre Bertaux, Germanist
9 October – Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker
13 October – Yves Allégret, film director
16 October – Roger Vailland, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter
17 October – Marcel Barbu, politician
29 October – Edwige Feuillère, actress
1 November
*Paul Bacon, politician
*Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager
3 November – Raymond Bussières, actor
6 November – Raymond Savignac, graphic artist
18 November – Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman
19 November – Fernand Cornez, cyclist
20 November – Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer
30 November – Jacques Barzun, historian
10 December
*Daniel Barbier, astronomer
*Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal
16 December – Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General
24 December – André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist

20 January – Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist
25 January – René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France
16 February – Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French
20 February – Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
21 February – Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator
11 March – Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic
18 March – Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician
12 May – Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist
13 July – Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician
16 July – Théobald Chartran, painter
6 September – Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901
21 September – Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist
1 November – Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist