1906 in France

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.

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Births

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)

1 July - Jean Dieudonné, mathematician (died 1992)
2 July - Séra Martin, middle-distance Olympic runner (died 1993)
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)

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)

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Incumbents