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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

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