Events from the year 1913 in France.
Incumbents President: Armand Fallières (until 18 February), Raymond Poincaré (starting 18 February) President of the Council of Ministers: until 21 January: Raymond Poincaré 21 January-22 March: Aristide Briand 22 March-9 December: René Viviani starting 9 December: Gaston Doumergue
Events 17 January – Raymond Poincaré is elected president 3 February – Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins. 29 May – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris. 20 August – 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud jumps from an airplane and lands safely. 23 September – Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean. 12 December – Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested. 30 December – Italy returns Mona Lisa to France.
Arts
Pierre Bonnard - Salle à manger à la campagne Marc Chagall - Autoportrait aux sept doigts Robert Delaunay - L'Équipe de Cardiff Albert Gleizes Les Joueurs de football L'Homme au hamac Portrait de l'éditeur Eugène Figuière Dominique Lang - Le barrage Albert Marquet - La Citadelle à Tanger Jean Metzinger En Canot Le Fumeur La Femme à l'Éventail Francis Picabia - Udnie
Film
Louis Feuillade - Fantômas (1913 serial)
Literature Alain-Fournier - Le Grand Meaulnes Maurice Barrès - La colline inspirée Gaston Leroux - Rouletabille chez le Tsar Octave Mirbeau - Dingo Marcel Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu
Music
Claude Debussy Images pour orchestre Jeux La boîte à joujoux (piano score only) Syrinx Gabriel Fauré - 2 Pieces, Op. 104 Maurice Ravel - Prélude, M.65 Albert Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée Camille Saint-Saëns Valse gaie, Op. 139 La Terre Promise, Op. 140 2 Chorales, Op. 141 Erik Satie Descriptions automatiques Embryons desséchés Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps
Sport 29 June – Tour de France begins. 27 July – Tour de France ends, won by Philippe Thys of Belgium.
Births
January to March 5 January – Pierre Veuillot, cardinal (died 1968) 23 January – Jean-Michel Atlan, painter (died 1960) 17 February – Louis Bouyer, priest and writer (died 2004) 24 February – François Bourbotte, soccer player (died 1972) 27 February – Paul Ricoeur, philosopher (died 2005) 3 March – Roger Caillois, writer and intellectual (died 1978) 12 March – Max Leognany, artist (died 1994) 18 March – René Clément, screenwriter and film director (died 1996) 26 March – Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (died 1970) 26 March – Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist (died 2010) 28 March – Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (died 2001)
April to June 14 April – Jean Fournet, conductor (died 2008) 18 May – Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (died 2001) 26 May – Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist (died 2005) André Lalande, officer (died 1995) 9 June – Jean Nicolas, international soccer player (died 1978) 18 June – Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (died 2008) 26 June – Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (died 2008)
July to December 1 July – André Tollet, chairman of the Paris liberation committee (died 2001) 12 July – Roger Testu, cartoonist (died 2008) 13 July – Fabien Galateau, cyclist (died 1995) 14 July – René Llense, footballer (died 2014) 17 July – Roger Garaudy, author and philosopher (died 2012) July – Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of writer Colette (died 1981) 31 August – Jacques Foccart, politician (died 1997) 10 October – Claude Simon, novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1985 (died 2005) 13 October – Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (died 1988) 7 November – Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957 (died 1960) 20 November – Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (died 2006) 22 November – Jacqueline Vaudecrane, figure skater (died 2018) 29 November – Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 1983) 11 December – Jean Marais, actor (died 1998)
Full date unknown Pierre Probst, cartoonist (died 2007)
Deaths 2 January – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (born 1855) 14 June – Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, painter and sculptor (born 1848) 20 August – Émile Ollivier, statesman, 30th Prime Minister of France (born 1825) 6 September – Henri Menier, businessman and adventurer (born 1853) 15 November – Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, nobleman, scholar and major general in the Confederate States Army (born 1832) 5 December – Ferdinand Dugué, poet and playwright (born 1816)
See also List of French films of 1913
References