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French History This Month - December

  • Events:
    • France wins first Davis Cup Tennis title in 59 years - 1.12.1991
      By defeating the US team in Lyon, France
    • First Neon Lights Ever - 3.12.1910
      At the Paris Motor Show
    • Napoléon abolishes the Inquisition in Spain - 4.12.1808
    • World's first motor show opens in Paris - 11.12.1894
      With 9 exhibitors
    • Napoléon divorces Josephine - 16.12.1809
      Because she had not produced an heir
    • The Battle of Dreux - 18.12.1562
      Fought between Huguenots and Catholics beginning the French Wars of Religion
    • De Gaulle becomes President - 21.12.1958
      Not for the first time
    • Alfred Dreyfus send to Devil's Island - 22.12.1894
      The officer falsely convicted of selling military secrets
    • Van Gogh cuts off part of his ear - 23.12.1888
      Following an argument with Paul Gauguin
    • Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor - 25.12.800
      In Rome by Pope Leo III
    • Marie and Pierre Curie discover Radium - 26.12.1898
  • Births:
    • Madame Tussaud - 1.12.1761 - Wax modeler
    • Georges Seurat - 2.12.1859 - Painter
    • Jean-Luc Godard - 3.12.1930 - Film director
    • Hector Berlioz - 11.12.1803 - Composer
    • Gustave Flaubert - 12.12.1821 - Novelist
    • Nostradamus - 13.12.1503 - Physician and astrologer
    • Gustave Eiffel - 15.12.1832 - Swedish Engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower
    • Edith Piaf - 19.12.15 - Singer
    • Jean Genet - 19.12.1910 - Dramatist and essayist
    • Maurice Utrillo - 25.12.1883 - Painter
    • Gerard Depardieu - 27.12.1948 - Film actor
    • André Messanger - 30.12.1853 - Composer
    • Henri Matisse - 31.12.1869 - Painter
  • Deaths:
    • Marquis de Sade - 2.12.1814 - Writer and philosopher
    • Pierre Auguste Renoir - 3.12.1919 - Painter
    • Alexandre Dumas père - 4.12.1870 - Novelist
    • Cardinal Richelieu - 4.12.1642 - Churchman and politician
    • Claude Monet - 4.12.1926 - Painter
    • Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin - 6.12.1779 - Painter
    • Madame du Barry - 6.12.1793 - Mistriss of King Louis XV
    • Ferdinand de Lesseps - 7.12.1894 - Engineer
    • Camille Saint-Saës - 16.12.1921 - Composer
    • Paul Tortelier - 18.12.1990 - Cellist
    • Samuel Becket - 22.12.1989 - Writer and dramatist, Irish expatriate in Paris
    • Charles Pathé - 26.12.1957 - Film pioneer
    • Hervé Guibert - 27.12.1992 - Novelist and photographer
    • Gustave Eiffel - 28.12.1923 - Swedish Engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower
    • Maurice Ravel - 28.12.1937 - Composer
    • Jacques Louis David - 29.12.1825 - Painter
    • Gustave Courbet - 31.12.1877 - Painter

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