1941 in France

← 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1941 in France → 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1941 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1941 in France.

Incumbents

• Chief of State: Philippe Pétain
• Vice-President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre-Étienne Flandin (until 9 February), François Darlan (starting 9 February)

Events

• 17 January –
  Thai Navy
  .
• 3 February – The
  Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy France
  .
• 5 May – Georges Bégué becomes (probably) the first Special Operations Executive agent to be parachuted into France.
• 9 May –
  French-Thai War
  ends.
• 8 June – Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon begins, the Syria–Lebanon campaign.
• 9 June – Battle of the Litani River.
• 13 June – Battle of Jezzine.
• 15 June – Battle of Kissoué begins.
• 17 June – Battle of Kissoué ends with Allied victory.
• 18 June – Battle of Damascus begins.
• 19 June – Battle of Merdjayoun starts.
• 21 June – Battle of Damascus ends, with the Allies taking Damascus.
• 24 June – Battle of Merdjayoun ends.
• 1 July – Battle of Palmyra. Vichy garrison at Palmyra surrenders.
• 3 July – Battle of Deir ez-Zor. Allied victory over Vichy French.
• 5 July – Battle of Damour begins.
• 9 July – Battle of Damour ends, with Allied victory over Vichy French.
• 14 July – Vichy France signs armistice terms ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
• 21 August
  • Drancy internment camp officially opens.
  • In revenge for the execution two days earlier of
    Barbès – Rochechouart Paris Métro station, the first killing of a member of the German military in occupied Paris, initiating a cycle of assassinations and retribution that will claim hundreds of lives.^[1]
• 22 August - German Occupation Authority announces that anyone found either working for or aiding the
  Free French
  will be sentenced to death.
• 27 August -
  Versailles
  .
• 24 November – The United States grants
  Free French
  .
• 12 December – United States seizes French ship SS Normandie.

Sport

• 25 May –
  Coupe de France Football Final won by Girondins ASP
  .

• 2 January – Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, soccer player and manager (died 2002)
• 13 April –
  comics creator
  (died 1983)
• 19 April – Michel Roux, chef and restaurateur (died 2020 in the United Kingdom)
• 20 May – Raymond Forni, Socialist politician (died 2008)
• 25 May – Jean-Pierre Hubert, science fiction and detective fiction author (died 2006)
• 30 June – Cyril Atanassoff, French-born Bulgarian ballet dancer
• 17 July – Gribouille, singer (died 1968)
• 1 August
  • Nathalie Delon, born Francine Canovas, film actress (died 2021)
  • Étienne Roda-Gil, songwriter and screenwriter (died 2004)
• 13 September – Daniel Bernard, diplomat (died 2004)
• 26 October –
  negationist writer
  (died 1978)
• 30 December – Mario Giubilei, French worker-priest (died 2016)^[2]

Deaths

• 4 January – Henri Bergson, philosopher (born 1859)
• 19 February – Paul-Jacques Curie, physicist (born 1855)
• 24 February —
  Imperial Naval submarine captain in World War I and Kriegsmarine Rear admiral (born 1886
  )
• 16 April –
  Émile Bernard
  , painter (born 1868)
• 26 July – Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (born 1875)
• 14 August – Paul Sabatier, chemist, shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (born 1854)
• 6 November – Maurice Leblanc, novelist and short story writer (born 1864)
• 7 December - Louise Compain, feminist author (born 1869)

See also

• List of French films of 1941

References