1905 in France

Events from the year 1905 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Émile Loubet
 * President of the Council of Ministers:
 * until 12 March: Emile Combes
 * 12 March-25 October: Maurice Rouvier
 * starting 25 October: Georges Clemenceau

Events

 * February – Fierce storm on the Calvados coast.
 * 31 March – German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis.
 * 13 May – Mata Hari debuts in Paris.
 * 9 December – 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State is passed, enacting laïcité.
 * Louis Delâge produces the first Delage automobile in Levallois-Perret.
 * Renault Type AG taxicab begins production at Billancourt and 1,500 are ordered for use in Paris.

Arts and literature

 * October – The Fauvist artists, notably Henri Matisse, first exhibit, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

Sport

 * 9–30 July – Third Tour de France, won by Louis Trousselier.

January to March

 * 17 January – Louis Armand, engineer (died 1971)
 * 21 January – Christian Dior, fashion designer (died 1957)
 * 7 February
 * Paul Nizan, philosopher and writer (died 1940)
 * René de Possel, mathematician (died 1974)
 * 8 February – Andre Richaume, archetier/bowmaker (died 1966)
 * 3 March – Marie Glory, actress (died 2009)
 * 14 March – Raymond Aron, philosopher, sociologist and political scientist (died 1983)
 * 20 March – Jean Galia (died 1949), boxer and pioneering rugby footballer
 * 28 March – René Maheu, professor of philosophy and Director General of UNESCO (died 1975)

April to June

 * 2 April – Edmond Jouhaud, one of four generals who staged the Algiers putsch of 1961 (died 1995)
 * 4 April – Eugène Bozza, composer (died 1991)
 * 5 April – Waldeck Rochet, politician (died 1983)
 * 13 April – Pierre Schneiter, politician (died 1979)
 * 14 April – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French Resistance member (died 1999)
 * 24 April – Pierre Chevalier, caver and mountaineer (died 2001)
 * 6 May – René Dreyfus, motor racing driver (died 1993)
 * 14 May – Jean Daniélou, theologian and historian (died 1974)
 * 15 May – Albert Dubout, cartoonist, illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1976)
 * 20 June – Hélène Bouvier, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 1978)
 * 21 June – Jacques Goddet, sports journalist and Tour de France director (died 2000)
 * 21 June – Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic (died 1980)

July to September

 * 25 July – Georges Grignard, motor racing driver (died 1977)
 * 29 July – Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor (died 1990)
 * 30 July – Jeanne-Marie Darré, pianist (died 1999)
 * 8 August – André Jolivet, composer (died 1974)
 * 9 August – Pierre Klossowski, writer, translator and artist (died 2001)
 * 20 August – André Giriat, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1967)
 * 5 September – Maurice Challe, General (died 1979)

October to December

 * 10 October – Armand Marcelle, rower and Olympic medallist (died 1974)
 * 11 October – Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal (died 1979)
 * 24 October – Pierre Frank, Trotskyist leader (died 1984)
 * 18 November – Paul Paillole, soldier (died 1992)
 * 29 November – Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1991)
 * 22 December – Pierre Brasseur, actor (died 1972)
 * 25 December – Étienne Mattler, international soccer player (died 1986)
 * 31 December – Guy Mollet, politician (died 1975)

Full date unknown

 * Jacques Baron, poet (died 1986).
 * Albert-Félix de Lapparent, palaeontologist and Jesuit priest (died 1975)
 * René Taupin, translator, critic and academic (died 1981)

January to June

 * 4 February – Louis-Ernest Barrias, sculptor (born 1841)
 * 5 February – Antoine Alphonse Chassepot, gunsmith and inventor (born 1833)
 * 24 March – Jules Verne, author (born 1828)
 * 26 May – Alphonse James de Rothschild, banker and philanthropist (born 1827)
 * 1 June – Émile Delahaye, automotive pioneer (born 1843)
 * 4 June – Edme-Armand-Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier, politician (born 1823)

July to December

 * 9 August – Placide Louis Chapelle, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans (born 1842)
 * 19 August – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter (born 1825)
 * 13 September – René Goblet, politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1828)
 * 14 September – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer (born 1852)
 * 25 September – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, politician (born 1853)
 * 12 December – François Paul Meurice, dramatist (born 1818)