# 1915 in France

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Events from the year 1915 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Raymond Poincaré
* President of the Council of Ministers: René Viviani (until 29 October), Aristide Briand (starting 29 October)

## Events

* 19 January – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
* 27 January – French military casualties begin arriving at the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, established earlier in the month by British volunteers.
* 2 April – Croix de guerre instituted as a military decoration.
* 18 April – Roland Garros lands his aircraft behind enemy lines and is taken prisoner.
* 9 May – Second Battle of Artois starts.
* 15 May – Second Battle of Artois ends in stalemate.
* July – Adrian helmet first issued to the French Army.
* 10 September – Satirical weekly newspaper Le Canard enchaîné first published.
* 15 September – Third Battle of Artois begins.
* 25 September
** Battle of Loos begins, a major British offensive on the Western Front; first British use of poison gas during World War I.
** Second Battle of Champagne begins.
* 28 September – Battle of Loos ends with British retreat.
* 16 October – France declares war on Bulgaria.
* 4 November – Third Battle of Artois ends.
* 6 November – Second Battle of Champagne ends.

## Births
### January to March

* 13 January – Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar (died 2000)
* 14 January – André Frossard, journalist and essayist (died 1995)
* 31 January – Henri Dobert, mechanical or electrician worker, World War II resistant (died 1943)
* 18 February – Marcel Landowski, composer, biographer and arts administrator (died 1999)
* 1 March – Gustave Choquet, mathematician (died 2006)
* 7 March – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (died 2000)
* 24 March – Eugène Martin, motor racing driver (died 2006)

### April to June

* 2 April – Jean Sauvagnargues, politician and Minister (died 2002)
* 3 April – Paul Touvier, convicted of crime against humanity for collaborationism in Vichy France (died 1996)
* 20 April – Émile Muller, politician (died 1988)
* 6 May – Achille Zavatta, clown and circus operator (died 1993)
* 12 May – Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé community (died 2005)
* 21 June – Jean Bastien, soccer player (died 1969)

### July to December

* 31 July – Henri Decaë, cinematographer (died 1987)
* 19 August – Alphonse Antoine, cyclist (died 1999)
* 22 October – Jules Bigot, soccer player and manager (died 2007)
* 22 October – Jean Despeaux, boxer, Olympic gold-medallist (died 1989)
* 9 November – André François, cartoonist (died 2005)
* 12 November – Roland Barthes, literary critic and philosopher (died 1980)
* 17 November – Michel Arnaud, General (died 1990)
* November – Jean Neuberth, abstract painter (died 1966)
* 17 December – André Claveau, singer (died 2003)
* 19 December – Édith Piaf, singer (died 1963)

## Deaths

* 8 April – Louis Pergaud, novelist (killed in action) (born 1882)
* 10 May – Gaston Cros, army officer and archaeologist (killed in action) (born 1861)
* 5 June – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, painter and sculptor (killed in action) (born 1891)
* 25 July – Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, socialite, model for Portrait of Madame X (born 1859)
* 31 August – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
* 15 September – Alfred Agache, painter (born 1843)
* 31 August – Adolphe Pégoud, acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
* 11 October – Jean Henri Fabre, entomologist (born 1823)
* 25 November – Michel Bréal, philologist (born 1832)