Английская Википедия:1904 in France

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Events from the year 1904 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Émile Loubet
• President of the Council of Ministers: Emile Combes

Events

• 23 February - First launch of a French diesel-powered submarine, Aigrette.
• 8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.
• Global cosmetics companies are founded in Paris: Coty, by François Coty, and Garnier, by Alfred Amour Garnier.

Arts and literature

• Summer - Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered foundational in his own oeuvre and the starting point of Fauvism.

Sport

• 2 July - The second Tour de France begins.
• 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Henri Cornet.

Births

January to March

• 7 January - Pierre Allain, climber (died 2000)
• 13 January - Jean de Beaumont, sport shooter (died 2002)
• 14 January - Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (died 1967)
• 4 February - Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (died 1967)
• 11 February - Lucile Randon, supercentenarian (died 2023)
• 15 February - Louis Robert, historian and author (died 1985)
• 24 February - Gaston Marie Jacquier, Roman Catholic prelate (died 1976)
• 27 February - André Leducq, cyclist, twice Tour de France winner (died 1980)
• 1 March - Paul Dubreil, mathematician (died 1994)
• 13 March - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (died 2001)

April to June

• 12 April - Arsène Alancourt, cyclist (died 1965)
• 13 April - Yves Congar, priest and theologian (died 1995)
• 21 April
  • Jean Hélion, painter and author (died 1987)
  • Gabriel Loire, stained glass artist (died 1996)
• 25 April - René Cogny, General (died 1968)
• 17 May - Jean Gabin, actor (died 1976)
• 18 May - François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1994)
• 19 May - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (died 1988)
• 25 May - Marcel Thil, world champion boxer (died 1968)
• 8 June - Jean-Jérôme Adam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Libreville (died 1981)
• 11 June - Gaston Charlot, chemist (died 1994)
• 29 June - Jean Berveiller, composer and organist (died 1976)

July to September

• 2 July - René Lacoste, tennis player (died 1996)
• 8 July - Henri Cartan, mathematician. (died 2008)
• 24 July - Leo Arnaud, composer of film scores (died 1991)
• 4 September - Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (died 1994)
• 7 September - Henri Pinault, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengdu (died 1987)
• 18 September - Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (died 1994)

October to December

• 8 October - Yves Giraud-Cabantous, motor racing driver (died 1973)
• 13 October - Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (died 1967)
• 14 October - Christian Pineau, French Resistance leader and politician (died 1995)
• 12 November
  • Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (died 1977)
  • Jacques Tourneur, film director (died 1977)
• 22 November - Louis Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 (died 2000)
• 6 December - Ève Curie, author and writer, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (died 2007)
• 12 December - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor (died 1981)
• 21 December - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (died 2001)
• 31 December - Charles Fauvel, aircraft designer (died 1979)

Full date unknown

• Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (died 1994)

Deaths

• 10 January - Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (born 1824)
• 26 January - Émile Deschanel, author and politician (born 1819)
• 3 February - Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (born 1819)
• 19 May - Auguste Molinier, historian (born 1851)
• 27 June - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, archaeologist and numismatist (born 1821)
• 25 August - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (born 1836)
• 23 September - Émile Gallé, artist (born 1846)
• 4 October - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)

Full date unknown

• Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (born 1843)

See also

• List of French films before 1910