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List of events
Events from the year 1897 in
France .
Incumbents
Events
Women study at
École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
July to September
3 July –
Charles Tillon , politician (died
1993 )
25 July –
André Muffang , chess master (died
1989 )
2 August –
Philippe Soupault , poet, novelist, critic and political activist (died
1990 )
19 August –
Norbert Casteret ,
caver and adventurer (died
1987 )
10 September –
Georges Bataille , writer (died
1962 )
12 September
13 September –
Michel Saint-Denis ,
actor ,
theatre director , and
drama theorist (died
1971 )
October to December
3 October –
Louis Aragon , poet and novelist (died
1982 )
16 October –
Louis de Cazenave , at the time of his death, the oldest French
poilu still alive (died
2008 )
18 October –
Martha Desrumeaux , militant communist and member of the
French Resistance (died
1982 )
24 November –
François Ducaud-Bourget , priest (died
1984 )
27 November –
André Couder ,
optician and
astronomer (died
1979 )
3 December –
André Marie , politician and
Prime Minister of France (died
1974 )
7 December –
Lazare Ponticelli , last surviving official
French veteran of
the First World War (died
2008 )
19 December –
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix , Commissioner for
Jewish Affairs under the
Vichy Régime (died
1980 )
20 December –
Jacques de Bernonville ,
collaborationist and senior police officer in the
Vichy regime (died
1972 )
25 December –
Noël Delberghe ,
water polo player and Olympic medallist (died
1965 )
Undated
Deaths
13 January –
Charles Brun , naval engineer (born
1821 )
20 March –
Augustin Marie Morvan ,
physician ,
politician and
writer (born
1819 )
18 May –
François-Louis Français , painter (born
1814 )
30 May –
Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy , actress (born
1819 )
19 June –
Louis Brière de l'Isle , Military officer and colonial governor (born
1827 )
5 July –
Edmond-Frederic Le Blant , archaeologist and historian (born
1818 )
6 July –
Henri Meilhac , dramatist and opera librettist (born
1830 )
20 September –
Louis Pierre Mouillard , aeronautical engineer (born
1834 )
30 September –
Thérèse de Lisieux ,
Roman Catholic
Carmelite
nun ,
canonised as a
saint (born
1873 )
6 November –
Edouard Deldevez ,
violinist ,
conductor and
composer (born
1817 )
14 November –
Thomas W. Evans , dentist (born
1823 in the United States )
[4]
28 November –
Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard , general (born
1821 )
6 December –
Oscar Bardi de Fourtou , politician (born
1836 )
16 December –
Alphonse Daudet , novelist (born
1840 )
References
^
"Félix Faure - president of France" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 13 May 2018 .
^
"Félix-Jules Méline - premier of France" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 13 May 2018 .
^ Offen, Karen (2018).
Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 . Cambridge University Press. p. 175.
ISBN
9781107188044 .
^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1904),
"Thomas William Evans" , The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans , vol. 4, Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, retrieved 2009-06-12 .
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