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Events from the year 1899 in France.
Incumbents[edit]
- President: Félix Faure (until 18 February), Émile Loubet (starting 18 February)
- President of the Council of Ministers: Charles Dupuy (until 22 June), Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (starting 22 June)
Events[edit]
- 18 February – Emile Loubet is elected president following the death of Felix Faure.
- 16 April – Battle of Lougou, French victory in Niger.
- 20 June – Right-wing nationalist movement Action Française formed by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois.
- 17 July – The French Bretonnet-Braun mission is destroyed in the Battle of Togbao, in Chad, by the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.
- 19 September – Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned.
- 28 October – Battle of Kouno, indecisive battle between French forces and a Muslim army led by Rabih az-Zubayr in Chad.
- Automobile manufacturer Renault established by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand.
Arts and literature[edit]
- 21 January – Actress Sarah Bernhardt, having taken over management of the Paris theatre which she renames the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, opens in the title rôle of Victorien Sardou's La Tosca. On 20 May she premières a French adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet with herself in the title rôle, one of the first successful female actresses to tackle a male part.
- Henri Matisse paints Still Life with Compote, Apples and Oranges.
- Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.
Sport[edit]
- 31 August – The Olympique de Marseille association football club is founded.[1]
- 21 September – Henri François Béconnais sets the 1 km speed record (48 seconds) in a Soncin automobile at Achères.[2]
Births[edit]
January to March[edit]
- 6 January – Alphonse Castex, rugby union player (died 1969)
- 7 January – Francis Poulenc, composer (died 1963)
- 12 January – Pierre Bernac, baritone (died 1979)
- 15 January – Louis Guilloux, writer (died 1980)
- 20 January – Pierre Gandon, illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990)
- 23 January – Pierre Grany, athlete (died 1968)
- 7 February – René Crabos, rugby union player (died 1964)
- 15 February – Georges Auric, composer (died 1983)
- 21 February – Yvonne Vallée, actress (died 1996)
- 9 March – Jules Dewaquez, soccer player (died 1971)
- 25 March – Jacques Audiberti, playwright, poet and novelist (died 1965)
- 28 March – Bernard Delaire, last French naval veteran of the First World War (died 2007)
April to June[edit]
- 7 April – Robert Casadesus, pianist (died 1972)
- 11 April – Clément Dupont, rugby union player (died 1993)
- 8 May – Jacques Heim, fashion designer (died 1967)
- 14 May
- Pierre Victor Auger, physicist (died 1993)
- Pierre Petiteau, rugby union player (died 1974)
- 15 May – Jean-Étienne Valluy, general (died 1970)
- 17 May – Anita Conti, explorer, photographer and first French female oceanographer (died 1997)
- 24 May – Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player (died 1938)
- 20 June – Jean Moulin, prefect and Resistance leader (died in custody 1943)
July to September[edit]
- 5 July
- Marcel Achard, playwright, screenwriter and author (died 1974)
- Marcel Arland, novelist, literary critic and journalist (died 1986)
- 7 July – Jean-Albert Grégoire, car pioneer (died 1992)
- 14 July – Marie-Hélène Cardot, French resistance leader and politician (died 1977)
- 19 July – Germaine Sablon, singer and actress (died 1985)
- 26 July – Édouard Bader, rugby union player (died 1983)
- 9 August – Armand Salacrou, dramatist (died 1989)
- 14 August – Adolphe Bousquet, rugby union player (died 1972)
- 28 August – Charles Boyer, actor (died 1978)
- 9 September – Brassaï, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker (died 1984)
- 14 September – Youenn Drezen, Breton nationalist writer and activist (died 1972)
October to December[edit]
- 1 October – Joseph Guillemot, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (died 1975)
- 5 October – Georges Bidault politician and resistance leader (died 1983)
- 8 October – Edmond Michelet, politician (died 1970)
- 24 October – Philippe Kieffer, Naval officer (died 1962)
- 30 October – Georges Capdeville, soccer referee (died 1991)
- 8 December
- Fernand Arnout, weightlifter and Olympic medallist (died 1974)
- François Borde, rugby union player (died 1987)
- 9 December – Jean de Brunhoff, writer and illustrator (died 1937)
Full date unknown[edit]
- Marcel Fétique, bowmaker (died 1977)
- Henri-Robert Petit, journalist, Collaborationist under the Vichy regime and far-right activist (died 1985)
Deaths[edit]
- 16 February – Félix Faure, President of France (born 1841)[3]
- 16 May – Francisque Sarcey, journalist and drama critic (born 1827)
- 10 June – Ernest Chausson, composer (born 1855)
- 5 July – Hippolyte Lucas, entomologist (born 1814)
- 11 July – Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux, literary scholar (born 1823)
- 14 July – Jean-François Klobb, colonial officer (born 1857)
- 20 July – Charlotte de Rothschild, socialite and painter (born 1825)
- 25 September – Francisque Bouillier, philosopher (born 1813)
- 28 November – Virginia Oldoini, Mistress of Napoleon III and significant figure in the early history of photography. (born 1837)
Full date unknown[edit]
- Henri Delaborde, art critic and painter (born 1811)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Auclair, Philippe (2015-01-06). "Only in Marseille: where ultras rule and temptation is never far away". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ Histoire de la marque.
- ^ "Félix Faure | president of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-03-26.