1905 in France

Incumbents

• President: Émile Loubet
• President of the Council of Ministers:
  • until 12 March: Emile Combes
  • 12 March-25 October: Maurice Rouvier
  • starting 25 October: Georges Clemenceau

Events

• 24 January – Maurice Rouvier forms a government as the new Prime Minister of France.
• February – Fierce storm on the Calvados coast.
• 31 March – German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis.
• 13 May – Mata Hari debuts in Paris.
• 14 July – The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons.
• October – The Fauvist artists, notably Henri Matisse, first exhibit, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
• 9 December – 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State is passed, enacting laïcité.
• Louis Delâge produces the first Delage automobile in Levallois-Perret.
• Renault Type AG taxicab begins production at Billancourt and 1,500 are ordered for use in Paris.

Arts

• André Derain - Montagnes à Collioure
• Henri Matisse
  • La Raie verte
  • Landscape at Collioure
  • Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure
  • *Les toits de *Collioure
  • La femme au chapeau
• Jean Metzinger - Baigneuses: Deux nus dans un paysage exotique
• Pablo Picasso
  • Acrobate et jeune Arlequin
  • Au Lapin Agile
  • Famille d'acrobates avec singe
  • Famille de saltimbanques
  • Garçon à la pipe
  • Jeune femme en chemise
  • Girl on a Ball
  • Les Noces de Pierrette
  • Fillette à la corbeille fleurie
• Robert Antoine Pinchon - Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant
• Henri Rousseau - Le lion ayant faim se jette sur l'antilope
• Paul Signac
  • Le Grand Canal à Venise
  • The Lagoon of Saint Mark, Venice
  • Le Sentier des Douanes

Film

• Alice Guy-Blaché & Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset - Esmeralda
• Georges Méliès
  • Le Diable noir
  • La Chaise à porteurs enchantée
  • Le Dirigeable fantastique ou le Cauchemar d'un inventeur
  • Les Cartes vivantes
  • L'Île de Calypso
  • Le Palais des mille et une nuits

Literature

• Jules Verne
  • L'Invasion de la mer
  • Le Phare du bout du monde

Music

• Claude Debussy
  • Suite bergamasque
  • La mer
• Reynaldo Hahn - Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este
• Maurice Ravel - Sonatine
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello Sonata No. 2
• Florent Schmitt - Reflets d'Allemagne

Sport

• 9–30 July – Third Tour de France, won by Louis Trousselier.

Births

January to March

• 17 January – Louis Armand, engineer (died 1971)
• 21 January – Christian Dior, fashion designer (died 1957)
• 7 February
  • Paul Nizan, philosopher and writer (died 1940)
  • René de Possel, mathematician (died 1974)
• 8 February – Andre Richaume, archetier/bowmaker (died 1966)
• 3 March – Marie Glory, actress (died 2009)
• 14 March – Raymond Aron, philosopher, sociologist and political scientist (died 1983)
• 20 March – Jean Galia (died 1949), boxer and pioneering rugby footballer
• 28 March – René Maheu, professor of philosophy and Director General of UNESCO (died 1975)

April to June

• 2 April – Edmond Jouhaud, one of four generals who staged the Algiers putsch of 1961 (died 1995)
• 4 April – Eugène Bozza, composer (died 1991)
• 5 April – Waldeck Rochet, politician (died 1983)
• 13 April – Pierre Schneiter, politician (died 1979)
• 14 April – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French Resistance member (died 1999)
• 24 April – Pierre Chevalier, caver and mountaineer (died 2001)
• 6 May – René Dreyfus, motor racing driver (died 1993)
• 14 May – Jean Daniélou, theologian and historian (died 1974)
• 15 May – Albert Dubout, cartoonist, illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1976)
• 11 June – Paul Wormser, Olympic fencer (died 1944)
• 20 June – Hélène Bouvier, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 1978)
• 21 June
  • Jacques Goddet, sports journalist and Tour de France director (died 2000)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic (died 1980)

July to September

• 25 July – Georges Grignard, motor racing driver (died 1977)
• 29 July – Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor (died 1990)
• 30 July – Jeanne-Marie Darré, pianist (died 1999)
• 8 August – André Jolivet, composer (died 1974)
• 9 August – Pierre Klossowski, writer, translator and artist (died 2001)
• 20 August – André Giriat, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1967)
• 2 September – Marcel Galey, footballer (died 1991)
• 5 September – Maurice Challe, general (died 1979)

October to December

• 8 October – André Rollet, footballer (died 1985)
• 10 October – Armand Marcelle, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1974)
• 11 October – Jean-Marie Villot, cardinal (died 1979)
• 23 October – Claude de Cambronne, aircraft manufacturer (died 1993)
• 24 October – Pierre Frank, Trotskyist leader (died 1984)
• 18 November – Paul Paillole, soldier (died 1992)
• 29 November – Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1991)
• 22 December – Pierre Brasseur, actor (died 1972)
• 25 December – Étienne Mattler, international soccer player (died 1986)
• 31 December – Guy Mollet, politician (died 1975)

Full date unknown

• Jacques Baron, poet (died 1986).
• Albert-Félix de Lapparent, palaeontologist and Jesuit priest (died 1975)
• René Taupin, translator, critic and academic (died 1981)

Deaths

January to June

• 4 February – Louis-Ernest Barrias, sculptor (born 1841)
• 5 February – Antoine Alphonse Chassepot, gunsmith and inventor (born 1833)
• 24 March – Jules Verne, author (born 1828)
• 26 May – Alphonse James de Rothschild, banker and philanthropist (born 1827)
• 1 June – Émile Delahaye, automotive pioneer (born 1843)
• 4 June – Edme-Armand-Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier, politician (born 1823)

July to December

• 9 August – Placide Louis Chapelle, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans (born 1842)
• 19 August – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter (born 1825)
• 13 September – René Goblet, politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1828)
• 14 September – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer (born 1852)
• 25 September – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, politician (born 1853)
• 12 December – François Paul Meurice, dramatist (born 1818)

References

References

1. (12 October 2005). "The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History". Springer.