1897 in France
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See also: 1896 in France, other events of 1897, 1898 in France.

Events from the year 1897 in France.

Events

• 9 December - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand.

Arts and Literature

• 28 December - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.

Births

January to June

• 21 January - René Iché, sculptor (d.1954).
• 30 March - Raymond Borderie, film producer (d.1982).
• 4 April - Pierre Fresnay, actor (d.1975).
• 27 May - Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist (d.1985).

July to September

• 3 July - Charles Tillon, politician (d.1993).
• 25 July - André Muffang, chess master (d.1989).
• 2 August - Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (d.1990).
• 10 September - Georges Bataille, writer (d.1962).
• 12 September - Irène Joliot-Curie, scientist, shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 (d.1956).

October to December

• 3 October - Louis Aragon, poet and novelist (d.1982).
• 16 October - Louis de Cazenave, at the time of his death, the oldest French poilu still alive (d.2008).
• 27 November - André Couder, optician and astronomer (d.1979).
• 3 December - André Marie, politician and Prime Minister of France (d.1974).
• 7 December - Lazare Ponticelli, last surviving official French veteran of the First World War (d.2008).
• 19 December - Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime (d.1980).
• 20 December - Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (d.1972).

Full date unknown

• Norbert Casteret, caver and adventurer (d.1987).
• Martha Desrumeaux, militant communist and member of the French Resistance (d.1982).
• Michel Saint-Denis, actor, theatre director, and drama theorist (d.1971).

Deaths

• 13 January - Charles Brun, naval engineer (b.1821).
• 19 June - Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (b.1827).
• 5 July - Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian (b.1818).
• 30 September - Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (b.1873).
• 6 November - Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (b.1817).
• 16 December - Alphonse Daudet, novelist (b.1840).

Full date unknown

• Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (b.1819).
• Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard, general (b.1821).
• Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou, politician (b.1836).
• François-Louis Français, painter (b.1814).
• Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (b.1819).
• Louis Pierre Mouillard, engineer (b.1834).

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