1913 in France

Incumbents

• President: Armand Fallières (until 18 February), Raymond Poincaré (starting 18 February)
• President of the Council of Ministers:
  • until 21 January: Raymond Poincaré
  • 21 January-22 March: Aristide Briand
  • 22 March-9 December: René Viviani
  • starting 9 December: Gaston Doumergue

Events

• 17 January – Raymond Poincaré is elected president
• 3 February – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.
• 29 May – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
• 20 August – 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud jumps from an airplane and lands safely.
• 23 September – Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean.
• 12 December – Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.
• 30 December – Italy returns Mona Lisa to France.

Arts

• Pierre Bonnard - Salle à manger à la campagne
• Marc Chagall - Autoportrait aux sept doigts
• Robert Delaunay - L'Équipe de Cardiff
• Albert Gleizes
  • Les Joueurs de football
  • L'Homme au hamac
  • Portrait de l'éditeur Eugène Figuière
• Dominique Lang - Le barrage
• Albert Marquet - La Citadelle à Tanger
• Jean Metzinger
  • En Canot
  • Le Fumeur
  • La Femme à l'Éventail
• Francis Picabia - Udnie

Film

• Louis Feuillade - Fantômas (1913 serial)

Literature

• Alain-Fournier - Le Grand Meaulnes
• Maurice Barrès - La colline inspirée
• Gaston Leroux - Rouletabille chez le Tsar
• Octave Mirbeau - Dingo
• Marcel Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu

Music

• Claude Debussy
  • Images pour orchestre
  • Jeux
  • La boîte à joujoux (piano score only)
  • Syrinx
• Gabriel Fauré - 2 Pieces, Op. 104
• Maurice Ravel - Prélude, M.65
• Albert Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Valse gaie, Op. 139
  • La Terre Promise, Op. 140
  • 2 Chorales, Op. 141
• Erik Satie
  • Descriptions automatiques
  • Embryons desséchés
• Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps

Sport

• 29 June – Tour de France begins.
• 27 July – Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.

Births

January to March

• 5 January – Pierre Veuillot, Cardinal (died 1968)
• 17 February – Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (died 2004)
• 24 February – François Bourbotte, soccer player (died 1972)
• 27 February – Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (died 2005)
• 3 March – Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (died 1978)
• 12 March – Max Leognany, artist (died 1994)
• 18 March – René Clément, screenwriter and film director (died 1996)
• 26 March – Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (died 1970)
• 26 March – Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist (died 2010)
• 28 March – Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (died 2001)

April to June

• 14 April – Jean Fournet, conductor (died 2008)
• 18 May – Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (died 2001)
• 26 May –
  • Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (died 2005)
  • André Lalande, officer (died 1995)
• 9 June – Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (died 1978)
• 18 June – Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (died 2008)
• 26 June – Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (died 2008)

July to December

• 12 July – Roger Testu, cartoonist (died 2008)
• 13 July – Fabien Galateau, cyclist (died 1995)
• 17 July – Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher (died 2012)
• July – Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (died 1981)
• 31 August – Jacques Foccart, politician (died 1997)
• 10 October – Claude Simon, novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1985 (died 2005)
• 13 October – Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (died 1988)
• 7 November – Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957 (died 1960)
• 20 November – Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (died 2006)
• 29 November – Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 1983)
• 11 December – Jean Marais, actor (died 1998)

Full date unknown

• Pierre Probst, cartoonist (died 2007)

Deaths

• 2 January – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (born 1855)
• 14 June – Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (born 1848)
• 20 August – Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (born 1825)
• 6 September – Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (born 1853)
• 15 November – Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (born 1832)
• 5 December – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (born 1816)

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