Octave Lapize follows 15 minutes behind on foot, pushing his bike through the mud, and shouting “assassins” at the officials. Gustave Garrigou is the first Tour de France rider to cross the Pyrenees’ “circle of death”. The Government creates a reserve unit of Alsacians in the ranks of the Foreign Legion to serve in Africa and Indochina. King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium pay an official visit to Paris. Jean Jacques Liabeuf is executed as scheduled at dawn. The impending execution of shoemaker Jean Jacques Liabeuf who was convicted of murdering two policemen sparks the protest. Militant anarchists clash with the authorities near la Santé prison during the night. Les Ballets Russes returns to Paris with a presentation of Igor Stravinski’s The Firebird. The King and Queen of Bulgaria pay an official visit to Paris. The General Staff is convinced of the usefulness of the airplane. Two military pilots return to Vincennes from Châlons-sur-Marne in record time on board a Farman biplane. The play which the public has waited ten years for is a rated a near failure. Charcot and members of the Second French Antarctic Expedition receive a triumphal welcome to Rouen.Įdmond Rostand’s Chantecler premiers. Serge Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes returns to Paris.ĭr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s Second French Antarctic Expedition returns to Le Havre after two years of exploration in the polar region. La Comédie-Française reestablishes its lecture committee. The submarine Pluviôse sinks after a collision with a steamboat off Calais. Time signals are transmitter from the Eiffel Tower as regular service for the first time.Ĭhurchman, historian and philosopher Monsignor Louis Duchesne enters the Académie française. The first international conference on aerial navigation opens in Paris.Īuthor Jules Renard dies in Paris at age 46.
Playwright Eugène Brieux enters the Académie française. The governing coalition carries 370 of 597 seats. The Radicals and the Socialists emerge victorious in the legislative elections. The Confédération Générale du Travail cancels its scheduled May Day march in Paris after the Government mobilizes 20,000 troops. Novelist Marcel Prévost enters the Académie française.Īristide Briand bans a scheduled demonstration by the Confédération Générale du Travail in the Bois de Boulogne. Gustav Mahler conducts his second symphony at le Châtelet in Paris. Literary critic and historian René Doumic enters the Académie française. General Jean Jules Brun, Minister of War, encourages military training for youths.Ī new law set the age of retirement at 65. The suffragettes prepare for the legislative elections in which though ineligible they will present their candidates.Ī flying boat invented by Marseillais engineer Henri Fabre makes its first flight around the étang de Berre, near Marseilles.Įlise Deroche (aka Baroness Raymonde de la Roche) becomes the first French woman licensed to pilot an airplane.Īu Printemps great hall and shopping arcade opens in Paris. Pioneer photographer Nadar (born: Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) dies at age 90.
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L’Ecole des ménages an unedited work by Honoré de Balzac is produced in Paris.įive year interest free loans are granted to flood victims. The Vélodrome d’Hiver, “Vel’ d’Hiv”, opens in Paris.Ī production of Oscar Strauss’ operetta A Waltz Dream opens in Paris.Īn envoy of the Sultan arrives in Paris to ratify the Franco-Moroccan Accord of December 25th.Ī meeting of the learned societies of Paris declares in favor of women’s suffrage. The Chamber of Deputies approves the participation of the German concern Krupp with a French consortium for the exploitation of iron mines in North Africa. The International Red Cross begins aiding victims of the Seine flood. The rapidly rising waters of the Seine reach the gare Saint Lazare in Paris.įlood waters peak in Paris (8.5 meters below the Pont de la Tournelle). Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine publishes Le Mystère de la Charité de Jeanne d’Arc, by Charles Péguy. The World at War - France 1910 - 1914 France 1910 - 1914 France Timeline 1910Īn aviation rally organized to mark the inauguration of the Croix d’Hins airfield at Bordeaux is marred by several accidents including one which results in the death of Léon Delagrange.Ī ban on Belgians working in France provokes sharp reaction in Belgium.
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