# 1911 in France

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Events from the year 1911 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Armand Fallières
* President of the Council of Ministers:
** until 2 March: Aristide Briand
** 2 March-27 June: Ernest Monis
** starting 27 June: Joseph Caillaux

## Events

* 1 July – Agadir Crisis.
* 22 August – Theft of Mona Lisa discovered in The Louvre. (Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested and the painting returned 1913.)
* 25 September – French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon.
* 20 December – First robbery of the Bonnot gang.
* Champagne Riots.

## Births
### January to June

* 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)

### July to September

* 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)

### October to December

* 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)

### Full date unknown

* Louis Henry, historian (died 1991)
* Claude Saint-Cyr, milliner (died 2002)

## Deaths

* 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)