French History This Month - November

• Events:
  • UNESCO Headquarters established in Paris - 4.11.1946
    
  • Battle of Inkerman - 5.11.1854
    Combined French and British armies defeated the Russians here during the Crimean War
  • Le Musée du Louvre opens - 8.11.1793
    The world's first art museum opens in Paris
  • Napoléon overthrows the Directory and takes power - 9.11.1799
    
  • Armistice ends WWI - 11.11.1918
    
  • Jules Léotard debut in Paris - 12.11.1918
    The acrobat and his flying trapeze debuts at the Cirque Napoléon
  • Telegraph service between Paris and London begins operation - 13.11.1851
    
  • Battle of the Somme of WWI ends - 13.11.1916
    Roughly 60,000 allied soldiers died
  • Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris - 14.11.1925
    Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso among other participated
  • First human flight in ligher-than-air craft - 21.11.1783
    François de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandres lifted off from the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in a hot air balloon made by the Montgolfier brothers.
  • Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme premiers in Paris - 23.11.1670
    
  • World's first tidal power station opens in Brittany - 26.11.1966
    By President de Gaulle
  • Pope Urban begins to preach the First Crusade at Clermont - 27.11.1095
    
  • De Gaulle rejects Brittian's entry into the Common Market - 27.11.1967
    
• Births:
  • Marie Antoinnette - 2.11.1755 - Queen of King Louis XVI of France
  • Albert Camus - 7.11.1913 - Writer and thinker
  • Marie Curie - 7.11.1867 - Polish/French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Guillaume Apollinaire - 9.11.1918 - Poet
  • François Couperin - 10.11.1668 - Composer
  • Auguste Rodin - 12.11.1840 - Sculptor, artist
  • Eugene Ionesco - 13.11.1912 - Romanian born French author and dramatist
  • Claude Monet - 14.11.1840 - Painter
  • Tolouse-Lautrec - 14.11.1874 - Painter
  • Louis XVIII - 17.11.1755 - King of France
  • Voltaire - 21.11.1694 - Philosopher and writer
  • Charles de Gaulle - 22.11.1890 - General, President, and statesman
  • Jacques Chirac - 29.11.1932 - President, former Mayor of Paris
• Deaths:
  • Henri Matisse - 3.11.1954 - Painter
  • Gabriel Fauré - 4.11.1856 - Organist and composer
  • Jacques Tati - 5.11.1982 - Comic film actor, and director
  • Maurice Utrillo - 5.11.1955 - Painter
  • Edgard Varèse - 8.11.1965 - Composer
  • Victorien Sardou - 8.11.1908 - Dramatist
  • Charles de Gaulle - 9.11.1970 - General, President, and statesman
  • Yves Montand - 9.11.1991 - Singer and actor
  • John Sylvan - 12.11.1793 - Astronomer
  • Camille Pissarro - 13.11.1903 - Painter
  • Jean Gabin - 15.11.1976 - Actor
  • Marcel Proust - 18.11.1922 - Author
  • Nicolas Poussin - 19.11.1665 - Painter
  • Abbé Prévost - 23.11.1763 - Author
  • André Malraux - 23.11.1976 - Novelist
  • Georges Clemenceau - 24.11.1929 - General and statesman
  • Arthur Honegger - 27.11.1955 - Swiss composer expatriate made his home in Paris