1909 in France

Events from the year 1909 in France.

Incumbents

20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro.
2 February - The Paris Film Congress opens. It is an attempt to form a cartel of leading European producers similar to that of the MPPC in the United States
18 April - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
25 July - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
30 July - Société Française de teintures inoffersires, as predecessor of L'Oréal was founded.
22 September - Three of the Chauffeurs de la Drome are executed by guillotine in Valence, Drôme in south-west France. They were a gang responsible for a three-year campaign of theft, torture and murder in the department of Drôme.

7 April - Robert Charroux, writer
17 April - Alain Poher, politician
22 April - André Girard, civil servant and Resistance worker
11 May - René Bousquet, civil servant, served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police
21 May - Guy de Rothschild, banker
15 June - Pierre La Mure, author
17 June - Régine Pernoud, historian and medievalist
19 June - Robert Défossé, soccer player

6 July - Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist
8 July - Louis Finot, international soccer player
13 July - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso
15 July - Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist
26 July - Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician
5 August - Pierre Guillaumat, politician and Minister
11 August - Gaston Litaize, organist and composer
25 September - Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, film director, script-writer, playwright and author
27 September - Pascal Themanlys, poet, Zionist and Kabbalist
29 September - Jules Merviel, cyclist
September - Henri Déricourt, pilot and accused double agent

1 October - Thierry Maulnier, journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic
11 October - François Tanguy-Prigent, politician and resistance fighter
14 October - Robert Mercier, footballer
28 October - Claude Bourdet, writer, journalist and politician
5 November - Pierre Repp, humorist and actor
8 November - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French Resistance leader
29 November - Jean Leguay, civil servant, accomplice in the deportation of Jews from France
2 December - Pierre Langlais, military officer