# 1923 in France

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Events from the year 1923 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Alexandre Millerand
* President of the Council of Ministers: Raymond Poincare

## Events

* 11 January – Occupation of the Ruhr begins by French and Belgian troops to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
* September – Resultant strikes called off by German government and followed by a state of emergency.
* October – Rhenish Republic is proclaimed at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle).

## Arts and literature

* March – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.

## Sport

* 26 May – The inaugural 24 hours of Le Mans race is won by André Lagache and René Léonard.
* 24 June – Tour de France begins.
* 22 July – Tour de France ends, won by Henri Pélissier.

## Births
### January to June

* 7 January – Jean Lucienbonnet, motor racing driver (died 1962)
* 9 February – André Gorz, journalist and social philosopher (died 2007)
* 13 February – Philippe de Chérisey, writer, radio humorist and actor (died 1985)
* 24 February – Lucien Braun, historian and philosopher (died 2020)
* 22 March – Marcel Marceau, mime artist (died 2007)
* 1 April – Jean Catoire, composer (died 2005)
* 5 April – Léon Fleuriot, linguist and historian (died 1987)
* 9 April – Albert Decourtray, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1994)
* 9 May – Claude Piéplu, actor (died 2006)
* 10 May – Jean-Claude Pecker, astronomer (died 2020)
* 27 May – Nicole Stéphane, actress, producer and director (died 2007)
* 7 June – Jean Baratte, soccer player and manager (died 1986)
* 10 June – Madeleine Lebeau, film actress (died 2016)
* 16 June – Silvia Monfort, actress and theatre director (died 1991)
* 18 June – Jean Delumeau, historian (died 2020)
* 24 June
** Geneviève Asse, painter (died 2021)
** Marc Riboud, photographer (died 2016)
* 27 June – Jacques Berthier, composer (died 1994)

### July to December

* 3 July – Charles Hernu, politician (died 1990)
* 6 July – Madame Claude (Fernande Grudet), brothel keeper (died 2015)
* 23 July – Claude Luter, jazz clarinetist (died 2006)
* 1 August – Jean Prat, international rugby player (died 2005)
* 2 August – Jean Rosenthal, translator (died 2020)
* 23 August – Georges Perros, writer (died 1978)
* 2 September – René Thom, mathematician (died 2002)
* 13 September – Edouard Boubat, photographer (died 1999)
* 12 October – Bernard Pingaud, writer (died 2020)
* 30 October – Anne Beaumanoir, neurophysiologist (died 2022)
* 7 November – Gilles Lapouge, writer and journalist (died 2020)
* 16 November – Marc Camoletti, playwright (died 2003)
* 18 November – Jean Cluzel, politician (died 2020)
* 24 November – Paul Haeberlin, chef and restaurateur (died 2008)
* 29 November – Christian Beullac, politician and Minister (died 1986)
* 10 December – Simone Chrisostome, resistance member and holocaust survivor (died 2021)
* 13 December – Jacques Renaud, racing cyclist (died 2020)
* 25 December – Noël Vandernotte, coxswain (died 2020)
* 31 December – Michel de Salzmann, psychiatrist (died 2001)

### Full date unknown

* François Ozenda, painter (died 1976).

## Deaths

* 19 February – Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, painter and sculptor (born 1842)
* 22 February – Théophile Delcassé, Statesman (born 1852)
* 26 March – Sarah Bernhardt, actress (born 1844)
* 28 March – Michel-Joseph Maunoury, military leader (born 1847)
* 10 June – Pierre Loti, sailor and writer (born 1850)
* 14 June – Isabelle Bogelot, philanthropist and campaigner (born 1838)
* 19 July – Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, historian (born 1842)
* 23 July – Charles Dupuy, politician, three times prime minister (born 1851)
* 6 August – Joséphine Berthault, artist (born 1853)
* 13 August – Bernard Gravier, Olympic fencer
* 13 October – Émile Bergerat, poet, playwright and essayist (born 1845)
* 5 November – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, aristocrat, novelist and poet (born 1880)
* 12 December – Raymond Radiguet, author (born 1903)
* 27 December – Gustave Eiffel, structural engineer and architect, designer of the Eiffel Tower (born 1832)
* 31 December – Édouard Stephan, astronomer (born 1837)

### Full date unknown

* Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin, maker of violins, violas, cellos, basses and bows (born 1841).