1910 in France

Incumbents

• President: Armand Fallières
• President of the Council of Ministers: Aristide Briand

  Events

• 15 January - Constant rain in Paris causes the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro becomes filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.
• 24 April - French legislative election held.
• 8 May - French legislative election held.
• 2 July - Demonstrations against public executions.
• Cigarette brands Gauloises and Gitanes launched.
• Champagne Riots begin.

  Sport

• 3 July - The eighth Tour de France begins.
• 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by Octave Lapize.

  Births

January to March

• 10 January - Jean Martinon, conductor and composer
• 25 January - Henri Louveau, motor racing driver
• 9 February - Jacques Monod, biologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
• 14 February - Pierre Marcilhacy, politician
• 19 February - Mathilde Carré, French Resistance agent, became a double agent
• 2 March - Charles Pisot, mathematician

  April to June

• 23 April - Simone Simon, actress
• 30 April - Pierre Lantier, composer and pianist
• 4 June - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar and sociologist
• 6 June - Hélène de Beauvoir, painter
• 8 June - Fernand Fonssagrives, photographer
• 11 June - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher
• 17 June - Raymond Poïvet, cartoonist
• 23 June - Jean Anouilh, dramatist
• 27 June - Pierre Joubert, illustrator

  July to December

• 2 July - Louise Laroche, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
• 5 July - Georges Vedel, public law professor
• 7 July - Raymond Polin, philosopher
• 27 July - Julien Gracq, writer
• 5 August - Bruno Coquatrix, songwriter and music impresario
• 7 August - Lucien Hervé, photographer
• 14 August
• * Willy Ronis, photographer
• * Pierre Schaeffer, composer, originator of musique concrète
• 1 September - Pierre Bézier, engineer
• 3 September - Maurice Papon, Vichy government official, prefect of police of Paris
• 8 September - Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director and mime artist
• 14 September - Gaston Defferre, politician
• 29 September - Paule Maurice, composer
• 27 October - René Zazzo, psychologist
• 29 October - Aurélie Nemours, painter
• 13 November - Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, politician and diplomat
• 19 December - Jean Genet, writer and political activist
• 21 December - Rosa Bouglione, circus performer

  Full date unknown

• Ernestine Chassebœuf, letter writer
• Henri Enjalbert, professor of geography

  Deaths

• 4 January — Leon Delagrange, pioneer aviator
• 5 January — Léon Walras, economist
• 26 February — Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, historian and philologist
• 24 March — Gaston du Bousquet, steam locomotive engineer
• 16 April — Julien Dupré, artist
• 1 May — Louis Walden Hawking, English painter
• 18 May — Pauline García-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer
• 27 June — Gustave Emile Boissonade, legal scholar
• 21 July — Léopold Victor Delisle, bibliophile and historian
• 2 September — Henri Rousseau, painter
• 10 September — Emmanuel Frémiet, sculptor