# 1905 in France

Events from the year 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

* 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.
* 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 and literature

* October – The Fauvist artists, notably Henri Matisse, first exhibit, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

## 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)
* 20 June – Hélène Bouvier, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 1978)
* 21 June – Jacques Goddet, sports journalist and Tour de France director (died 2000)
* 21 June – 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)
* 5 September – Maurice Challe, General (died 1979)

### October to December

* 10 October – Armand Marcelle, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1974)
* 11 October – Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal (died 1979)
* 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)