# 1906 in France

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Events from the year 1906 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Émile Loubet (until 18 February), Armand Fallières (starting 18 February)
* President of the Council of Ministers:
** until 7 March: Maurice Rouvier
** 12 March – 20 October: Ferdinand Sarrien
** starting 25 October: Georges Clemenceau

## Events

* 16 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
* 10 March - Courrières mine disaster: Explosion in coal mine in Courrières kills 1099.
* 7 April - Final agreement from Algeciras Conference is signed.
* 6 May - Legislative Election held.
* 20 May - Legislative Election held.
* June - First Paris motor bus line opened by C.G.O. (Compagnie Générale des Omnibus).
* 12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated.
* 21 July - Dreyfus is reinstalled in the French Army 21 July, ending the Dreyfus Affair.
* 23 October - Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft performs the first publicly witnessed European unaided take-off by a heavier-than-air aircraft, in Bagatelle.

## Sport

* 26–27 June - 1906 French Grand Prix at Le Mans; French cars take the major prizes.
* 4 July - Tour de France begins.
* 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by René Pottier.

## Births
### January to June

* 5 January – Pierre Seghers, poet and editor (died 1987)
* 21 February – Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (died 1988)
* 8 March – Louis Peglion, cyclist (died 1986)
* 9 March – Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (died 1990)
* 18 March – Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (died 1967)
* 25 March – Jean Sablon, singer and actor (died 1994)
* 26 March – Henri Cadiou, painter and lithographer (died 1989)
* 27 March – Bernard Lefebvre, photographer (died 1992)
* 2 April – Maurice Thiriet, composer (died 1972)
* 6 May – André Weil, mathematician (died 1998)
* 22 May – Paul Badré, aircraft pilot and engineer (died 2000)
* 3 June – Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer, singer and actress (died 1975)
* 7 June – Alexandre Renard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1983)
* 24 June – Pierre Fournier, cellist (died 1986)

### July to September

* 1 July - Jean Dieudonné, mathematician (died 1992)
* 6 July - Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (died 1990)
* 7 July - Charles Vaurie, ornithologist (died 1975)
* 27 July - Roger Duchesne, actor (died 1996)
* 30 July - Alex Thépot, international soccer player (died 1989)
* 18 August - Marcel Carné, film director (died 1996)
* 6 September - Luis Federico Leloir, physician and biochemist, recipient of 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1987)
* 12 September - Jacques Lacarrière, ice hockey player (died 2005)
* 30 September - Mireille Hartuch, singer, composer and actress (died 1996)

### October to December

* 3 October - Raymond Triboulet, resistance fighter and politician (died 2006)
* 22 October - Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (died 1994)
* 7 November
** Jean Leray, mathematician (died 1998)
** Pierre Magne, cyclist (died 1980)
* 14 November - Claude Ménard, field athlete, Olympic medallist (died 1980)
* 19 November - Jacques Leguerney, composer (died 1997)
* 16 November - Henri Charrière, convicted felon and author (died 1973)
* 10 December - Jules Ladoumègue, athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1973)
* 18 December - Ferdinand Alquié, philosopher (died 1985)
* 27 December - Andreas Feininger, French-born German-American photographer (died 1999)

## Deaths

* 1 April - Léon Fairmaire, entomologist (born 1820)
* 18 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (born 1819)
* 19 April - Pierre Curie, physicist, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics (born 1859)
* 5 July - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter (born 1827)
* 26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie, aristocrat (born 1846)
* 18 October - Léon Gastinel, composer (born 1813)
* 22 October - Paul Cézanne, painter (born 1839)
* 5 September - Albert Tissandier, architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist (born 1839)
* 9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière, writer and critic (born 1849)