1909 in France

Events from the year 1909 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Armand Fallières
 * President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau (until 24 July), Aristide Briand (starting 24 July)

Events

 * 20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro.
 * 2 February - The Paris Film Congress opens. It is an attempt to form a cartel of leading European producers similar to that of the MPPC in the United States
 * 18 April - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
 * 25 July - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
 * 30 July – Société Française de teintures inoffersires, as predecessor of L'Oréal was founded.
 * 22 September - Three of the Chauffeurs de la Drome are executed by guillotine in Valence, Drôme in south-west France. They were a gang responsible for a three-year campaign of theft, torture and murder in the department of Drôme.

Sport

 * 5 July - Tour de France begins.
 * 1 August - Tour de France ends, won by François Faber of Luxembourg.

January to March

 * 3 February
 * André Cayatte, filmmaker (died 1989)
 * Simone Weil, philosopher and social activist (died 1943)
 * 10 February - Henri Alekan, cinematographer (died 2001)
 * 26 February
 * Claude Cahen, orientalist (died 1991)
 * Michel Tapié, artist, critic, curator and art collector (died 1987)
 * 7 March - Léo Malet, novelist (died 1996)
 * 14 March
 * Pierre Cloarec, cyclist (died 1994)
 * André Pieyre de Mandiargues, writer (died 1991)
 * 27 March - Raymond Oliver, chef and restaurateur (died 1990)
 * 31 March - Robert Brasillach, author, executed for collaboration (died 1945)

April to June

 * 7 April - Robert Charroux, writer (died 1978)
 * 17 April - Alain Poher, politician (died 1996)
 * 22 April - André Girard, civil servant and Resistance worker (died 1993)
 * 11 May - René Bousquet, civil servant, served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police (died 1993)
 * 21 May - Guy de Rothschild, banker (died 2007)
 * 15 June - Pierre La Mure, author (died 1976)
 * 17 June - Régine Pernoud, historian and medievalist (died 1998)
 * 19 June - Robert Défossé, soccer player (died 1973)

July to September

 * 6 July - Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist (died 1977)
 * 8 July - Louis Finot, international soccer player (died 1996)
 * 13 July - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (died 1977)
 * 15 July - Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist (died 1992)
 * 26 July - Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician (died 1992)
 * 5 August - Pierre Guillaumat, politician and Minister (died 1991)
 * 11 August - Gaston Litaize, organist and composer (died 1991)
 * 25 September - Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, film director, script-writer, playwright and author (died 1985)
 * 27 September - Pascal Themanlys, poet, Zionist and Kabbalist (died 2000)
 * 29 September - Jules Merviel, cyclist (died 1976)
 * September - Henri Déricourt, pilot and accused double agent (died 1962)

October to December

 * 1 October - Thierry Maulnier, journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (died 1988)
 * 11 October - François Tanguy-Prigent, politician and resistance fighter (died 1970)
 * 28 October - Claude Bourdet, writer, journalist and politician (died 1996)
 * 5 November - Pierre Repp, humorist and actor (died 1986)
 * 8 November - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French Resistance leader (born 1989)
 * 29 November - Jean Leguay, civil servant, accomplice in the deportation of Jews from France (died 1989)
 * 2 December - Pierre Langlais, military officer (died 1986)

Full date unknown

 * Marcel Barral, poet (died 1997)

Deaths

 * 18 March - Cécile Bruyère, abbess (born 1845)
 * 28 May - Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, neurologist (born 1840)