1903 in France

Events from the year 1903 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Émile Loubet
 * President of the Council of Ministers: Emile Combes

Events

 * 10 August – Paris Métro train fire kills 84 people mostly at Couronnes station.

Sport

 * 1 July – First Tour de France begins.
 * 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Maurice Garin.

January to March

 * 16 January – William Grover-Williams, motor racing driver and war hero.
 * 13 February – Georges Simenon, writer (died 1989)
 * 21 February
 * Anaïs Nin, writer (died 1977)
 * Raymond Queneau, poet and novelist (died 1976)
 * 27 February – Fernand Gambiez, General and military historian (died 1989)
 * 8 March – Jean d'Eaubonne, art director (died 1970)
 * 9 March – André Godinat, cyclist (died 1979)

April to June

 * 8 May – Fernandel, actor (died 1971)
 * 15 May – Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist (died 1999)
 * 22 May – Yves Rocard, physicist (died 1992)
 * 2 June – Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (died 1972)
 * 18 June – Raymond Radiguet, author (died 1923)
 * 25 June – Pierre Brossolette, journalist and Resistance fighter (died 1944)
 * 28 June – André Maschinot, soccer player (died 1963)

July to September

 * 25 July – André Fleury, composer, pianist and organist (died 1995)
 * 15 August – Pascal Pia, writer, journalist, illustrator and scholar (died 1979)
 * 19 August – Claude Dauphin, actor (died 1978)
 * 29 August – Jean Follain, author, poet and lawyer (died 1971)

October to December

 * 1 October – Pierre Veyron, motor racing driver (died 1970)
 * 10 October – Ferdinand Le Drogo, cyclist (died 1976)
 * 16 October – Cécile de Brunhoff, storyteller (died 2003)
 * 19 October – Jean Delsarte, mathematician (died 1968)
 * 23 October – The French Angel, professional wrestler (died 1954)
 * 24 October – Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer (died 1999)
 * 1 November – Jean Tardieu, artist, musician, poet and author (died 1995)
 * 3 November – Charles Rigoulot, weightlifter, professional wrestler, race car driver and actor (died 1962)
 * 9 November – Léon-Étienne Duval, Cardinal (died 1996)
 * 15 November – Lucien Rebatet, author, journalist and intellectual (died 1972)
 * 27 November – Julien Moineau, cyclist (died 1980)
 * 30 November – Claude Arrieu, composer (died 1990)
 * 17 December – Roland de Vaux, priest and archaeologist (died 1971)
 * 23 December – Armand Blanchonnet, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist (died 1968)

Full date unknown

 * Maryse Choisy, philosophical writer (died 1979)
 * Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (died 1993)

Deaths

 * 28 January
 * Augusta Holmès, composer (born 1847)
 * Robert Planquette, composer of songs and operettas (born 1848)
 * 5 March – Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (born 1839)
 * 14 March – Ernest Legouvé, dramatist (born 1807)
 * 28 March – Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (born 1845)
 * 8 May – Paul Gauguin, painter (born 1848)
 * 16 May – Sibyl Sanderson, American operatic soprano (born 1864 in the United States)
 * 13 November – Camille Pissarro, painter (born 1830)

Full date unknown

 * Jean-Jules Allasseur, sculptor (born 1818)
 * Louis-Arsène Delaunay, actor (born 1826)