1915 in France

Events from the year 1915 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Raymond Poincaré
 * President of the Council of Ministers: René Viviani (until 29 October), Aristide Briand (starting 29 October)

Events

 * 19 January – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
 * 27 January – French military casualties begin arriving at the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, established earlier in the month by British volunteers.
 * 2 April – Croix de guerre instituted as a military decoration.
 * 18 April – Roland Garros lands his aircraft behind enemy lines and is taken prisoner.
 * 9 May – Second Battle of Artois starts.
 * 15 May – Second Battle of Artois ends in stalemate.
 * July – Adrian helmet first issued to the French Army.
 * 10 September – Satirical weekly newspaper Le Canard enchaîné first published.
 * 15 September – Third Battle of Artois begins.
 * 25 September
 * Battle of Loos begins, a major British offensive on the Western Front; first British use of poison gas during World War I.
 * Second Battle of Champagne begins.
 * 28 September – Battle of Loos ends with British retreat.
 * 16 October – France declares war on Bulgaria.
 * 4 November – Third Battle of Artois ends.
 * 6 November – Second Battle of Champagne ends.

January to March

 * 13 January – Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar (died 2000)
 * 14 January – André Frossard, journalist and essayist (died 1995)
 * 31 January – Henri Dobert, mechanical or electrician worker, World War II resistant (died 1943)
 * 18 February – Marcel Landowski, composer, biographer and arts administrator (died 1999)
 * 1 March – Gustave Choquet, mathematician (died 2006)
 * 7 March – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (died 2000)
 * 24 March – Eugène Martin, motor racing driver (died 2006)

April to June

 * 2 April – Jean Sauvagnargues, politician and Minister (died 2002)
 * 3 April – Paul Touvier, convicted of crime against humanity for collaborationism in Vichy France (died 1996)
 * 20 April – Émile Muller, politician (died 1988)
 * 6 May – Achille Zavatta, clown and circus operator (died 1993)
 * 12 May – Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé community (died 2005)
 * 21 June – Jean Bastien, soccer player (died 1969)

July to December

 * 31 July – Henri Decaë, cinematographer (died 1987)
 * 19 August – Alphonse Antoine, cyclist (died 1999)
 * 22 October – Jules Bigot, soccer player and manager (died 2007)
 * 22 October – Jean Despeaux, boxer, Olympic gold-medallist (died 1989)
 * 9 November – André François, cartoonist (died 2005)
 * 12 November – Roland Barthes, literary critic and philosopher (died 1980)
 * 17 November – Michel Arnaud, General (died 1990)
 * November – Jean Neuberth, abstract painter (died 1966)
 * 17 December – André Claveau, singer (died 2003)
 * 19 December – Édith Piaf, singer (died 1963)

Deaths

 * 8 April – Louis Pergaud, novelist (killed in action) (born 1882)
 * 10 May – Gaston Cros, army officer and archaeologist (killed in action) (born 1861)
 * 5 June – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, painter and sculptor (killed in action) (born 1891)
 * 25 July – Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, socialite, model for Portrait of Madame X (born 1859)
 * 31 August – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
 * 15 September – Alfred Agache, painter (born 1843)
 * 31 August – Adolphe Pégoud, acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
 * 11 October – Jean Henri Fabre, entomologist (born 1823)
 * 25 November – Michel Bréal, philologist (born 1832)