1911 in France

Events from the year 1911 in France.

Incumbents

January – Champagne Riots begin.
19 May – Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole is premièred at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
13 June – Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premièred at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Vaslav Nijinsky in the lead.
14 June – British liner call at Cherbourg on her maiden transatlantic voyage.
1 July – Agadir Crisis.
21 August – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following morning. The thief is arrested and the painting returned from Italy in 1913. Among the suspects is Guillaume Apollinaire.
25 September – French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon, killing around 300 onboard and in the surrounding area.
4 November – Morocco–Congo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France and Spain, with Germany forfeiting all claims to the country. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France.
20 December – First robbery by the Bonnot gang.

5 January – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor
15 January – Jean Talairach, neurosurgeon
16 January – Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France
17 January – André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist
18 January – Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France
22 January – André Roussin, playwright
24 January – René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic
30 January – René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist
2 February – Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, organist, composer and architect
14 February – Jean-Louis Nicot, Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch
23 February – Pierre Meile, French linguist
7 April – Hervé Bazin, writer
9 April – Paul Coste-Floret, politician
10 April – Maurice Schumann, politician
2 May – Edmond Pagès, cyclist
17 May – André Jaunet, flautist
24 May – Michel Pécheux, fencer
6 June – Jean Cayrol, poet and publisher
15 June – Joseph Alcazar, international soccer player