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- Third Salon d’Automne exhibition at The Grand Palais,
where the term Les Fauves (Wild Beasts) is coined.
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud.
- Albert Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity.
- Law of Separation of Church and State passed.
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- Retrospective of Paul Gauguin’s work.
- Alfred Drefus vindicated by a civilian court of appeal and awarded
Legion d’Honneur.
- Government of the Radical Georges Clemenceau
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- Retrospective of Cézanne’s work at the Salon d’Automne.
- Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles D’Avignon.
- First flights of Louis Blériot and of Henri Farman.
- August and Louis Lumière invent a system of colour photography.
- Creative Evolution published by Henri Bergson.
- Triple Entente between France, Britain and Russia.
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- First long distance wireless message sent from the Eiffel Tower.
- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler shows Georges Braque’s cubist paintings,
rejected by the Salon d’Automne.
- Georges Sorel publishes Reflections on Violence.
- Henri Matisse publishes Notes of a Painter.
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- Futurist manisfesto published in Milan and Paris by Filippo Marinetti.
- Sergei Diaghilev founds the Ballets Russes.
- Louis Blériot flies across the Channel.
- Clemenceau’s government replaced by Aristide Briand’s.
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- Wilhelm Uhde shows Picasso’s work in his gallery.
- Catastrophic floods in Paris.
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- Government of Joseph Callaux.
- Cubist paintings are exhibited at the Salon des Independents.
- Ballets Russes perform Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky.
- Revolt in Agadir sparks Moroccan crisis.
- Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre.
- Anti-Semitic demonstration at the Comedie Française.
- Marie Curie receives second Nobel Prize for Chemistry for isolation
of pure radium.
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- Government of Raymond Poincaré.
- Braque develops his papier collés.
- Jacob Epstein’s monument for Oscar Wilde creates a scandal in
Paris.
- Cubists show at Salon de la Section d’Or.
- The Futurists exhibit in Paris at Bernheim-Jeune.
- Du Cubisme published by Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes.
- First issue of the magazine Les Soirées de Paris.
- Construction of the Sacré-Coeur is completed (begun in 1874).
- Publication of Tidings Brought to Mary by Paul Claudel.
- Ballets Russes perform Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by
Debussy.
- Alexis Carrel receives the Nobel Prize for developing a method of
suturing blood vessels.
- Guillaume Apollinaire publishes his Zone.
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- Solo shows by Metzinger, Gleizes and Ferdinand Léger at Berthe
Weill’s gallery.
- First ready-made by Marchel Duchamp, titled Bicycle Wheel.
- First volume of Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust.
- Kees van Dongen starts giving costume balls in his studio.
- Cubist painters by Apollinaire published.
- Ballets Russes premier The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
- Fantomas Master of Terror establishes the popularity of motion-picture
director Louis Feuillade.
- Premiership of Gaston Doumergue.
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- German declaration of war against France.
- Braque, Derain and many other artists are drafted for war.
- As a German, Kahnweiler has his gallery closed and his stock confiscated.
- Parliamentary elections in France see a narrow victory for the Left.
- On outbreak of war René Vivani forms National Unity Government.
- Battle of the Marne halts German advance on Paris.
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- Romain Rolland is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Foundation of the French Institute of Psychoanalysis by Marie Bonaparte.
- Duchamp and Francis Picabia leave for New York.
- General Joseph Joffre made Commander-in-Chief in military shake-up.
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