1907 in France
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See also: 1906 in France, other events of 1907, 1908 in France.

Events from the year 1907 in France.

Events

• February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
• March - The French warship Jena is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.

Sport

• 8 July - Tour de France begins.
• 4 August - Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Petit-Breton.

Births

• 24 January — Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (d.1999).
• 15 February - Jean Langlais, composer and organist (d.1991).
• 29 April - Tino Rossi, singer and actor (d.1983).
• 26 May - Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (d.2006).
• 30 May - Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (d.2008).
• 14 June - René Char, poet (d.1988).
• 7 September - Roland Mousnier, historian (d.1993).
• 22 September - Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (d.2003).
• 1 November — Paul Bacon, politician (d.1999).
• 30 November - Jacques Barzun, historian.
• 10 December - Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (d.2005).

Full date unknown

• Jean Hyppolite, philosopher (d.1968).

Deaths

• 20 January - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (b.1839).
• 25 January - René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (b.1879).
• 16 February - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (b.1817).
• 20 February - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1852).
• 11 March - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (b.1847).
• 12 May - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (b.1848).
• 13 July - Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (b.1843).
• 6 September - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (b.1839).

Full date unknown

• Théobald Chartran, painter (b.1849).

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