1911 in France

← 1910 1909 1908 1911 in France → 1912 1913 1914
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1911 Timeline of French history

Events from the year 1911 in France.

Events

• 1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir.
• 25 September - French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon.
• 21 December - First robbery of the Bonnot gang.
• Champagne Riots.

Arts and literature

• 22 August - Theft of Mona Lisa discovered in Louvre. (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned 1913).
• 7 September - Poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and jailed on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. He is later released.

Sport

• 2 July - The ninth Tour de France begins.
• 30 July - Tour de France ends, won by Gustave Garrigou.

Births

January to June

• 5 January - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001)
• 15 January - Jean Talairach, neurosurgeon (died 2007)
• 16 January - Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (died 1996)
• 18 January - Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (died 1988)
• 22 January - André Roussin, playwright (died 1987)
• 24 January - René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic (died 1985)
• 30 January - René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1983)
• 2 February - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, organist, composer and architect (died 1982)
• 14 February - Jean-Louis Nicot, Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch (died 2004)
• 7 April - Hervé Bazin, writer (died 1996)
• 9 April - Paul Coste-Floret, politician (died 1979)
• 2 May - Edmond Pagès, cyclist (died 1987)
• 17 May - André Jaunet, flautist (died 1988)
• 24 May - Michel Pécheux, fencer (died 1985)
• 6 June - Jean Cayrol, poet and publisher (died 2005)
• 15 June - Joseph Alcazar, international soccer player (died 1979)

July to September

• 5 July - Georges Pompidou, President of France (died 1974)
• 23 July - Jean Fontenay, cyclist (died 1975)
• 18 August - Jacques Wertheimer, businessman (died 1996)
• 25 August - André Leroi-Gourhan, archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist (died 1986)
• 7 September - Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (died 1986)

October to December

• 12 October - Louis de Guiringaud, politician and Minister (died 1982)
• 13 October - André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (died 1988)
• 19 October - Laurette Séjourné, archeologist and ethnologist (died 2003)
• 31 October - René Hardy, French Resistance worker (died 1987)
• 1 November - Henri Troyat, author, biographer, historian and novelist (died 2007)
• 7 November - Yolande Beekman, World War II heroine (executed) (died 1944)
• 22 November - Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (died 1993)
• 8 December - Sauveur Ducazeaux, cyclist (died 1987)
• 21 December - Yves Godard, military officer (died 1975)
• 25 December - Louise Bourgeois, artist and sculptor
• 28 December - Gustave Malécot, mathematician (died 1998)
• 29 December - Bernard Saint-Hillier, General (died 2004)

Full date unknown

• Louis Dumont, anthropologist (died 1998)
• André Guinier, physicist (died 2000)
• André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist (died 1996)
• Louis Henry, historian (died 1991)

Deaths

• 13 February - Alphonse Pinart, explorer, philologist, and ethnographer (born 1852)
• 17 February - Auguste Houzeau, agronomist and chemist (born 1829)
• 24 March - Rodolphe-Madeleine Cleophas Dareste de la Chavanne, jurist (born 1824)
• 29 March - Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (born 1837)
• 7 June - Maurice Rouvier, statesman (born 1842)
• 7 October - Marie Clément Gaston Gautier, botanist (born 1841)
• 8 December - Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (born 1837)