# 1901 in France

Events from the year 1901 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Émile Loubet
* President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau

## Events

* 4 April – first issue of L'Assiette au beurre, satirical magazine created by Samuel-Sigismond Schwarz
* 10 August – Moberly-Jourdain incident.
* 19 October – Alberto Santos-Dumont manages to reach the distance between Saint-Cloud and the Eiffel Tower in an airship in less than 30 minutes and wins the Deutsch prize of 100,000 gold francs

## Arts and literature

* 17 March – A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

## Sport

* 1 January – The French rugby team plays its first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks.

## Births
### January to March

* 1 January – Marcel Balsa, motor racing driver (died 1984)
* 2 January – Louis Poterat, lyricist (died 1982)
* 8 January – Eugène Constant, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1971)
* 19 January – Henri Daniel-Rops, writer and historian (died 1965)
* 24 January – Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, painter, commercial poster artist and typeface designer (died 1968)
* 20 February
** Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1977)
** René Dubos, microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist and humanist (died 1982)
* 21 February
** Albert Dupouy, rugby union player (died 1973)
** Pierre Lewden, athlete (died 1989)
* 3 March – Corentin Louis Kervran, scientist (died 1983)
* 17 March – Alexandre Bioussa, rugby union player (died 1966)
* 26 March – Maurice Dorléac, actor (died 1979)

### April to June

* 7 April –
** André Trocmé, pastor who aided Jewish refugees (died 1971)
** Annemarie von Gabain, German linguist (died 1993)
* 8 April – Jean Prouvé, architect and designer (died 1984)
* 13 April – Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor (died 1981)
* 15 April – René Pleven, politician (died 1993)
* 20 April – Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (died 1990)
* 24 April – René Le Hénaff, film editor and director (died 2005)
* 15 May – Jacques Natanson, writer (died 1975)
* 18 May - Henri Sauguet, composer (died 1989)
* 25 May
** Jean Borthayre, operatic baritone (died 1984)
** André Girard, painter, poster-maker and Resistance member (died 1968)
* 31 May – Charles Brunier, convicted murderer and veteran of the First and Second World Wars who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon (died 2007)
* 13 June – Jean Prévost, writer, journalist and member of the Maquis (died 1944)
* 16 June – Henri Lefebvre, sociologist and philosopher (died 1991)
* 24 June – Marcel Mule, classical saxophonist (died 2001)
* 26 June – Jean Boyer, film director and author (died 1965)

### July to September

* 20 July – Gaston Waringhien, linguist, lexicographer and Esperantist (died 1991)
* 31 July – Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (died 1985)
* 5 August – Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP (died 2000)
* 17 August – Henri Tomasi, composer and conductor (died 1971)
* 18 August
** Lucienne Boyer, singer (died 1983)
** Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (died 1999)
* 19 August – René Capitant, lawyer and politician (died 1970)
* 27 August – Pierre Villon, member of the French Communist Party and of the French Resistance (died 1980)
* 29 August – Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore (died 1977)
* 8 September – Jacques Perret, writer (died 1992)
* 13 September – Claude Dupuy, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1989)
* 16 September
** Andrée Brunet, figure skater (died 1993)
** Louis Joxe, statesman and Minister (died 1991)
* 25 September – Robert Bresson, film director (died 1999)

### October to December

* 3 October – François Le Lionnais, chemical engineer and mathematician (died 1984)
* 12 October – Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Cardinal (died 1994)
* 3 November – André Malraux, author, adventurer and statesman (died 1976)
* 14 December – Henri Cochet, tennis player (died 1987)

### Full date unknown

* Roland Ansieau, graphic artist (died 1987)

## Deaths

* 5 January – Pierre Potain, cardiologist (born 1825)
* 13 January – Gaspard Adolphe Chatin, physician, mycologist and botanist (born 1813)
* 16 January – Jules Barbier, poet and librettist (born 1825)
* 28 January – Henri de Bornier, poet and dramatist (born 1825)
* 9 February – Louis-Nicolas Ménard, man of letters (born 1822)
* 17 March – Jean-Charles Cazin, landscape painter and ceramicist (born 1840)
* 29 March – Xavier Barbier de Montault, theologian (born 1830)
* 9 June – Casimir Marie Gaudibert, astronomer and selenographer (born 1823)
* 28 July – Paul Alexis, novelist, dramatist and journalist (born 1847)
* 12 August – Ernest de Jonquières, mathematician (born 1820)
* 17 August – Edmond Audran, composer (born 1840)
* 9 September – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (born 1864)
* date unknown
** Henriette Browne, painter and traveller (born 1829)
** Charles Jalabert, painter (born 1819)