1907 in France

This page relates to the year 1907 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

January and March: Laws on the freedom of the worships.
February 7th: The bill of income tax of the Minister for Finance Joseph Caillaux is deferred.
March 8th: The Grève of the Parisian electricians plunges the capital in the black.
March 11th: to protest against the wine crisis, a group of vine growers of the Minervois, carried out by Marcellin Albert, found the " Committee of Argeliers "
March 12th: explosion of the Iéna (armoured) in the wearing of Toulon which makes 37 wounded of which the admiral Manceron slightly wounded and 118 dead including seven officers
May 4th: foundation of the National union of the students of France to Lille
of the May 5th to the June 9th, of the demonstrations of wine growers in all the big cities of the Mediterranean Languedoc gather hundreds of thousands of people. The May 5th, with Narbonne, the army shoots at crowd: 2 dead. The June 21st, 500 soldiers of the 17th regiment of infantry of line unite with the demonstrators with Béziers.

May 23rd Birth of Ginette Mathiot, author of famous the " I know cuisiner" and Officer of the Legion of Honor
August 31st: Conclusion of the Triple Alliance between the France, the the United Kingdom and the Russia.
December 30th: Promulgation of the decree of creation of twelve regional Mobile Brigades of Judicial police (the “ Brigades of the Tiger ”).
Clemenceau represses the strike of the post-office employees.
the weekly rest becomes obligatory in France.
Creation of the company which will become L'Oreal in 1939.
Light rise of the prices (1907 - 1913).

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