1897 in France explained

Events from the year 1897 in France.

Incumbents

4 May – Bazar de la Charité Fire.
9 December – First issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published^[3] by Marguerite Durand.
Alexandre Darracq begins manufacture of motor vehicles at A. Darracq et Cie in the Paris suburb of Suresnes.
Women are admitted to study at the École des Beaux-Arts.

At Giverny, Claude Monet begins painting his Water Lilies series, which will continue until the end of his life.
28 December – The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.

21 January – René Iché, sculptor (died 1954)
30 March – Raymond Borderie, film producer (died 1982)
4 April – Pierre Fresnay, actor (died 1975)
1 May – Aimée Antoinette Camus, botanist (died 1965)
27 May – Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist (died 1985)

3 July – Charles Tillon, politician (died 1993)
12 July – Maurice Tabard, surrealist photographer (died 1984)
25 July – André Muffang, chess master (died 1989)
2 August – Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (died 1990)
15 August – Ludovic Arrachart, aviator (died 1933)
19 August – Norbert Casteret, caver and adventurer (died 1987)
10 September – Georges Bataille, writer (died 1962)
12 September
- Pierre Courant, politician (died 1965)
- Irène Joliot-Curie, scientist, shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 (died 1956)
13 September – Michel Saint-Denis, actor, theatre director, and drama theorist (died 1971)

3 October – Louis Aragon, poet and novelist (died 1982)
16 October – Louis de Cazenave, at the time of his death, the oldest French poilu still alive (died 2008)
18 October – Martha Desrumeaux, militant communist and member of the French Resistance (died 1982)
24 November – François Ducaud-Bourget, priest (died 1984)
27 November – André Couder, optician and astronomer (died 1979)
3 December – André Marie, politician and Prime Minister of France (died 1974)
7 December – Lazare Ponticelli, last surviving official French veteran of the First World War (died 2008)
19 December – Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime (died 1980)
20 December – Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (died 1972)
25 December – Noël Delberghe, water polo player and Olympic medallist (died 1965)

13 January – Charles Brun, naval engineer (born 1821)
20 March – Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (born 1819)
18 May – François-Louis Français, painter (born 1814)
30 May – Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, actress (born 1819)
19 June – Louis Brière de l'Isle, Military officer and colonial governor (born 1827)
5 July – Edmond-Frederic Le Blant, archaeologist and historian (born 1818)
6 July – Henri Meilhac, dramatist and opera librettist (born 1830)
20 September – Louis Pierre Mouillard, aeronautical engineer (born 1834)
30 September – Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (born 1873)
6 November – Edouard Deldevez, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1817)
14 November – Thomas W. Evans, dentist (born 1823 in the United States)^[4]
28 November – Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard, general (born 1821)
6 December – Oscar Bardi de Fourtou, politician (born 1836)
16 December – Alphonse Daudet, novelist (born 1840)

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