1907 in France

Incumbents

• President: Armand Fallières
• President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau

  Events

• 2 January - Latest Anti-clericalism laws comes into force, which forbids crucifixes in schools
• 11 February - The French cruiser Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
• March - ESSEC Business School is founded.
• 12 March - The French battleship Iéna blows up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
• 6 April - Louis Blériot flies his new monoplane ten yards.
• 10 April - French doctors announce the discovery of a new serum to cure dysentery.
• 18 April - Georges Clemenceau orders dismissal of striking civil servants; army mobilised for fear of May Day unrest.
• 17 May - Several thousand riot during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers at Béziers in the south of France.
• 9 June - Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's combined aeroplane and airship is wrecked in its first trial
• 28 June - Georges Clemenceau wins a majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
• 12 July - Major Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his rehabilitation.
• 14 July - President Armand Fallières narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
• 10 August - Peking to Paris motor race concludes.
• 18 December - Louis Blériot's demonstrations of his new aeroplane at Issy end in its destruction.

  Sport

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

  Births

January to March

• 8 January - Jean Hyppolite, philosopher
• 11 January - Pierre Mendès France, politician and Prime Minister of France
• 24 January — Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister
• 5 February - Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister
• 15 February
• *Célestin Delmer, international soccer player
• *Jean Langlais, composer and organist
• 22 March - Roger Blin, comedian and actor

  April to June

• 7 April - Violette Leduc, author
• 10 April - Marcel Simon, historian
• 12 April - Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver
• 15 April - Jean Fourastié, economist
• 28 April - Henri Michel, historian
• 29 April - Tino Rossi, singer and actor
• 22 May - Jean Beaufret, philosopher and Germanist
• 23 May - Ginette Mathiot, food writer
• 26 May - Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist
• 30 May - Germaine Tillion, anthropologist
• 12 June - Émile Veinante, soccer player and coach
• 14 June - René Char, poet
• 17 June - Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer

  July to September

• 7 July - Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal
• 5 August - Eugène Guillevic, poet
• 7 September - Roland Mousnier, historian
• 22 September - Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
• 23 September - Anne Desclos, journalist and novelist

  October to December

• 1 October - Maurice Bardèche, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist
• 4 October - Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist
• 5 October - Jean Louis, costume designer
• 8 October - Pierre Bertaux, Germanist
• 9 October - Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker
• 13 October - Yves Allégret, film director
• 16 October - Roger Vailland, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter
• 17 October - Marcel Barbu, politician
• 29 October - Edwige Feuillère, actress
• 1 November
• *Paul Bacon, politician
• *Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager
• 3 November - Raymond Bussières, actor
• 6 November - Raymond Savignac, graphic artist
• 18 November - Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman
• 19 November - Fernand Cornez, cyclist
• 20 November - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer
• 30 November - Jacques Barzun, historian
• 10 December
• *Daniel Barbier, astronomer
• *Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal
• 16 December - Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General
• 24 December - André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist

  Deaths

• 20 January - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist
• 25 January - René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France
• 16 February - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French
• 20 February - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 21 February - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator
• 11 March - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic
• 18 March - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician
• 12 May - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist
• 13 July - Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician
• 16 July - Théobald Chartran, painter
• 6 September - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901
• 21 September - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist
• 1 November - Alfred Jarry, playwright and novelist