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.^[1]
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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 (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to the country. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
20 December – First robbery by the Bonnot gang.

5 January – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001)
15 January – Jean Talairach, neurosurgeon (died 2007)
16 January – Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (died 1996)
17 January – André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist (died 1996)
18 January – Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (died 1988)
22 January – André Roussin, playwright (died 1987)
24 January – René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic (died 1985)
30 January – René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1983)
2 February – Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, organist, composer and architect (died 1982)
14 February – Jean-Louis Nicot, Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch (died 2004)
23 February – Pierre Meile, French linguist (died 1963)
7 April – Hervé Bazin, writer (died 1996)
9 April – Paul Coste-Floret, politician (died 1979)
10 April – Maurice Schumann, politician (died 1998)
2 May – Edmond Pagès, cyclist (died 1987)
17 May – André Jaunet, flautist (died 1988)
24 May – Michel Pécheux, fencer (died 1985)
6 June – Jean Cayrol, poet and publisher (died 2005)
15 June – Joseph Alcazar, international soccer player (died 1979)

5 July – Georges Pompidou, President of France (died 1974)
23 July – Jean Fontenay, cyclist (died 1975)
1 August – André Guinier, physicist (died 2000)
11 August – Louis Dumont, anthropologist (died 1998)
18 August – Jacques Wertheimer, businessman (died 1996)
25 August – André Leroi-Gourhan, archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist (died 1986)
7 September – Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (died 1986)

12 October – Louis de Guiringaud, politician and Minister (died 1982)
13 October – André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (died 1988)
19 October – Laurette Séjourné, archeologist and ethnologist (died 2003)
31 October – René Hardy, French Resistance worker (died 1987)
1 November – Henri Troyat, author, biographer, historian and novelist (died 2007)
7 November – Yolande Beekman, World War II heroine (executed) (died 1944)
22 November – Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (died 1993)
26 November – Robert Marchand, cyclist (died 2021)
8 December – Sauveur Ducazeaux, cyclist (died 1987)
21 December – Yves Godard, military officer (died 1975)
25 December – Louise Bourgeois, artist and sculptor (died 2010)
28 December – Gustave Malécot, mathematician (died 1998)
29 December – Bernard Saint-Hillier, General (died 2004)
29 December – André Claveau, recording artist; singer (died 2003)

13 February – Alphonse Pinart, explorer, philologist, and ethnographer (born 1852)
17 February – Auguste Houzeau, agronomist and chemist (born 1829)
24 March – Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist (born 1824)
29 March – Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (born 1837)
7 June – Maurice Rouvier, statesman (born 1842)
18 July – Jules Bourgeois, entomologist (born 1847)
11 September – Louis Henri Boussenard, author of adventure novels (born 1847)
30 September – Louis Joseph Troost, chemist (born 1825)
7 October – Marie Clément Gaston Gautier, botanist (born 1841)
8 December – Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (born 1837)

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