French History This Month - August

• Events:
  • Germany declares war (WWI) - 3.8.1914
    
  • End of the Second Battle of the Marne - 4.8.1918
    
  • Louis Philippe proclaimed French "Citizen King" (Philippe Egalité) for his support of the 1792 Revolution. - 7.8.1830
    
  • Côte d'Ivoire achieves independence from France - 7.8.1990
    
  • PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean), begins operations. - 12.8.1944
    Operating beneath the English Channel, PLUTO supplied gasoline to Allied invasion forces in France.
  • The Battle of Blenheim - 13.8.1705
    In southern Germany, Anglo-Austrian army inflects decisive defeat on the French armies.
  • Battle of Mons (Belgium) - 14.8.1678
    The French repluse William of Orange
  • Society of Jesus founded. - 15.8.1543
    Ignatius de Loyala establishes the Jesuit Order, in Paris.
  • Battle of the Spurs - 16.8.1513
    King Henry VIII and English troops defeat the French at Guinigatte, NW France
  • Battle of Smolensk - 18.8.1812
    Napoléon defeats Russian forces
  • Raid of Dieppe - 19.8.1942
    British and Canadien forces raid this French port city.
  • Battle of Saragossa - 20.8.1710
    French armies defeated by the Austrians
  • Battle of Vimiero - 21.8.1808
    French forces under General Junot, defeated by English lead by Wellington
  • Cadillac Motor Company Formed - 21.8.1901
    in Detroit, Michigan; named for French explorer Antoine Cadillac.
  • Mona Lisa Stolen - 21.8.1911
    from the Louvre in Paris. It was recovered two years later.
  • St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - 24.8.1572
    Charles IX orders the massacre of the Huguenots throughout France; thousands are killed in Paris.
  • Battle of Malaga - 24.8.1604
    The French are defeated by English and Dutch fleets.
  • Liberation of Paris - 25.8.1944
    Paris is liberated from German occupation during WWII.
• Births:
  • Saint-Laurent, Yves - 1.8.1936 - Couturier
  • de Maupassant, Guy - 5.8.1850 - Author
  • Claudel, Paul - 6.8.1868 - Poet
  • Tissot, James - 8.8.1902 - Painter
  • Moreau, Jean Victor Marie - 11.8.1772 - Military general
  • Bonaparte, Napoléon - 15.8.1769 - Emperor
  • Chanel, Gabrielle (Coco) - 19.8.1883 - Couturier
  • Poincaré, Raymond - 20.8.1860 - Statesman
  • Cartier-Bresson, Henri - 22.8.1908 - Photographer
  • Debussy, Claude - 22.8.1862 - Impressionist composer
  • Romains, Jules - 26.8.1904 - Novelist, playwright, and poet.
  • Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique - 29.8.1780 - Painter
  • David, Jacques Louis - 30.8.1748 - Painter
  • Killy, Jean Claude - 30.8.1943 - Ski Champion
• Deaths:
  • Louis VI - 1.8.1137 - King of France
  • Manessier, Alfred - 1.8.1993 - Painter
  • Blériot, Louis - 2.8.1936 - Aviator
  • Colette - 3.8.1954 - Novelist
  • Henry I - 4.8.1060 - King of France
  • Delacroix, Eugéne - 13.8.1863 - Painter
  • Laënnec, René - 13.8.1826 - Physician
  • Signac, Paul - 15.8.1935 - Painter
  • Léger, Fernand - 17.8.1955 - Painter
  • de Balzac, Honoré - 17.8.1850 - Novelist
  • Garnerin, André Jacques - 18.8.1823 - Balloonist
  • Pascal, Blaise - 19.8.1662 - Philosopher and mathematician
  • Bouguerau, Adolphe William - 20.8.1905 - Painter
  • Fragonard, Jean Honoré - 22.8.1806 - Painter
  • Peroni, Didier - 23.8.1987 - Racing car driver
  • de Coulomb, Charles Auguste - 23.8.1906 - Physicist
  • Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi - 24.8.1832 - Physicist
  • Boyer, Charles - 26.8.1978 - Actor
  • Louis Philippe - 26.8.1850 - "Citizen King" of France
  • Le Corbusier - 27.8.1965 - Architect (Swiss born)
  • Sorel, Georges - 30.8.1922 - Socialist philosopher (Réflexions sur la violence (1908)), born in Cherbourg.
  • Baudelaire, Charles Pierre - 31.8.1867 - Poet
  • Braque, Georges - 31.8.1963 - Painter