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Events from the year '''1912 in France'''.

==Incumbents==
*[[President of France|President]]: [[Armand Fallières]] 
*[[Prime Minister of France|President of the Council of Ministers]]: [[Joseph Caillaux]] (until 21 January), [[Raymond Poincaré]] (starting 21 January)

==Events==
*13 January – [[Raymond Poincaré]] forms a coalition government, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.
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*7 March – Aviator [[Henri Salmet]] makes the first non-stop flight from [[Paris]] to [[London]] in three hours.<ref>Flight, 16 March 1912, p. 238 [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200238.html London-Paris Record Flight ]</ref> ##claim retracted see Flight, 23 March 1912, p. 264 [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200264.html M. Salmet's London-Paris Flight] ##
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*30 March – [[Treaty of Fez]], Sultan [[Abdelhafid of Morocco|Abdelhafid]] gives up the [[sovereignty]] of [[Morocco]], making it a [[protectorate]] of France.
*10 April – {{RMS|Titanic}} embarks passengers from tenders at [[Cherbourg Harbour]] for the only time.

==Arts and literature==
*Marcel Duchamp paints ''[[Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2]]''.

==Sport==
*26 June – [[1912 French Grand Prix]], won by [[Georges Boillot]] driving a Peugeot.<ref>Higham, Peter (1995). ''The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing''. Guinness Publishing. p. 194. {{ISBN|0-85112-642-1}}.</ref>
*30 June–28 July – 10th [[1912 Tour de France|Tour de France]], won by [[Odiel Defraye]].

==Births==

===January to March===
*6 January – [[Jacques Ellul]], philosopher, sociologist, theologian (died 1994)
*15 January – [[Michel Debré]], politician and first [[List of Prime Ministers of France|Prime Minister]] of the [[French Fifth Republic|Fifth Republic]] (died 1996)
*18 January – [[David Rousset]], writer and political activist (died 1997)
*3 February – [[Jacques Soustelle]], [[Anthropology|anthropologist]] (died 1990)
*7 February – [[Alfred Desenclos]], composer (died 1971)
*7 February – [[Amédée Fournier]], cyclist (died 1992)
*11 February – [[Jacques Corrèze]], businessman and politician (died 1991)
*12 February – [[Pierre Jaminet]], cyclist (died 1968)
*20 February – [[Pierre Boulle]], novelist (died 1994)
*28 March – [[Léon Damas]], [[poet]] and [[politician]] (died 1978)

===April to June===
*12 April – [[Georges Franju]], [[filmmaker]] (died 1987)
*14 April – [[Robert Doisneau]], [[photographer]] (died  1994)
*19 April – [[Raymond Pichard]], Dominican priest and television presenter (died 1992)
*21 April – [[Marcel Camus]], [[film director]] (died 1982)
*28 April – [[Odette Sansom]], [[World War II]] heroine (died 1995)
*16 May – [[Alfred Aston]], international soccer player (died 2003)
*23 May – [[Jean Françaix]], composer, pianist, and orchestrator (died 1997)
*29 May – [[Pierre-Paul Schweitzer]], fourth managing director of the [[International Monetary Fund]] (died 1994)
*30 May – [[Roger Courtois]], international soccer player (died 1972)
*8 June – [[Roger Michelot]], boxer (died 1993)
*15 June – [[Alix Combelle]], [[swing music|swing]] [[jazz]] [[tenor saxophonist]], [[clarinetist]] and [[bandleader]] (died 1978)
*29 June – [[Lucie Aubrac]], World War II Resistance fighter (died 2007)
*29 June – [[Émile Peynaud]], [[oenologist]] and researcher (died 2004)

===July to December===
*18 July – [[Max Rousié]], rugby league and rugby union footballer (died 1959)
*5 August – [[Abbé Pierre]], priest and founder of Emmaus movement (died 2007)
*26 August – [[Léo Marjane]], born Thérèse Maria Léonie Gendebien, popular singer (died 2016)
*8 September – [[Marie-Dominique Philippe]], Dominican philosopher and theologian (died 2006)
*14 September – [[Jean Lescure]], poet (died 2005)
*3 November – [[Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier]], member of the [[French Resistance]] (died 1996)
*13 November – [[Claude Pompidou]], philanthropist, wife of [[President of France]] [[Georges Pompidou]] (died 2007)
*21 November – [[Pierre Grimal]], historian and classicist (died 1996)

===Full date unknown===
*[[Gérard Albouy]], [[Hatmaking|milliner]] (died 1985)
*[[Paul Petard]], [[botany|botanist]] (died 1980)

==Deaths==
*16 January – [[Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée]], philosopher (born [[1838 in France|1838]])
*14 April – [[Henri Brisson]], statesman and [[Prime minister of France]] (born 1835)
*12 June – [[Frédéric Passy]], [[economics|economist]], joint winner (with [[Henry Dunant]]) of first [[Nobel Prize for Peace|Nobel Peace Prize]], 1901 (born 1822)
*16 June – [[Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu]], publicist and historian (born [[1842 in France|1842]])
*17 July – [[Henri Poincaré]], mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science (born 1854)
*12 September – [[Pierre-Hector Coullié]], Archbishop of Lyon (born [[1829 in France|1829]])

===Full date unknown===
*[[Magloire-Désiré Barthet]], Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia (born [[1832 in France|1832]])
*[[Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy]], [[entomologist]] (born 1832)

==See also==
* [[List of French films of 1912]]

==References==
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