1902 in France

Events from the year 1902 in France.

Incumbents

13 April – A new land speed record of Script error: No such module "convert". is set in Nice by Leon Serpollet driving a steam car.
27 April – Legislative Election held.
8 May – 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique.
11 May – Legislative Election held.
24 August – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, the town which she stormed in 1429.
5 October – Thousands attend the funeral of the novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. They include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.^[2]
The capital of French Indochina is moved from Saigon (in Cochinchina) to Hanoi (Tonkin).

January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the crisis of modernism in the Catholic Church.
5 April – Maurice Ravel's Jeux d'eau is premièred by pianist Ricardo Vines at the Societe Nationale de Musique in Paris.
1 September – The first science fiction film, the trick film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premièred at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an immediate success.^[3]
Claude Monet begins his Water Lilies series of paintings in his garden at Giverny.

11 January – Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (died 1986)
13 January – Raymond Ruyer, philosopher (died 1987)
18 January – Émile Aillaud, architect (died 1988)
21 January – Agnès Souret, model, "la plus belle femme de France" (died 1928)
25 January – André Beaufre, colonel (died 1975)
29 January – Arlette Marchal, actress (died 1984)
8 February – André Gillois, writer and radio pioneer (died 2004)
26 February – Jean Bruller, writer and illustrator (died 1991)
9 March – Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (died 1945)
13 March – Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (died 1999)
14 March – Henri Barbé, communist (died 1966)
16 March – Louis Couffignal, mathematician and cybernetics pioneer (died 1966)
22 March – Madeleine Milhaud, actress (died 2008)
29 March – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (died 1967)
4 April – Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (died 1969)
9 April – Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (died 2000)
3 May – Alfred Kastler, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
7 May – Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (died 2001)
8 May – André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (died 1994)^[4]
27 May – Émile Benveniste, structural linguist (died 1976)
2 June – Georges Coudray, politician (died 1998)
15 June – Pierre Béarn, writer (died 2004)
28 June – Pierre Brunet, figure skater (died 1991)

6 July – Louis Vola, double bass player (died 1990)
16 July – Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (died 1989)
21 July – Georges Wambst, Olympic cyclist (died 1988)
9 August – Zino Francescatti, violinist (died 1991)
11 August – Christian de Castries, military officer (died 1991)
16 August – Gilbert Gérintès, rugby union player (died 1968)
24 August – Fernand Braudel, historian (died 1985)
28 August – Jean Favard, mathematician (died 1965)
15 October – André Prudhommeaux, anarchist bookstore owner (died 1968)
20 October – René Floriot, lawyer (died 1975).
31 October – Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (died 1970)
4 November – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (died 1996)
16 November – Paul Bontemps, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1981)
20 November – Jean Painlevé, film director (died 1989)
25 December – Maurice Gallay, footballer (died 1982)
31 December – Marcel Bidot, cyclist (died 1995)

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