See also: 1899 in France, other events of 1900, 1901 in France.

Events from the year 1900 in France.

Events

• 31 March - The length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
• 1 April - Every French policeman is assigned to carry a gun.
• 14 April - Paris World Exhibition opens.
• 21 April - Battle of Kousséri takes place in Chad, linking all French possessions in Western Africa.
• 27 June - Treaty of Paris is signed between the Spanish Empire and the French Empire by which Río Muni was relieved of all conflicting claims.
• 19 July - The first line of the Métro is inaugurated in Paris.

Arts and Literature

• 2 February - First performance of Gustave Charpentier's opera, Louise.

Sport

• Olympic Games held in Paris.

Births

• 5 January - Yves Tanguy, surrealist painter (d.1955).
• 4 February - Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (d.1977).
• 11 February - Raymond Cambefort, one of the last three fully verified World War I veterans living in France (d.2008).
• 19 March - Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate (d.1958).
• 29 June - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and writer (d.1944).
• 4 July - Robert Desnos, surrealist poet (d.1945).

Deaths

• 5 April - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, mathematician (b.1822).
• 22 April - Amédée-François Lamy, military officer (b.1858).
• 18 May - Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, philosopher and archaeologist (b.1813).
• 16 June - François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville, admiral (b.1818).

Full date unknown

• Jules Adenis, dramatist and opera librettist (b.1823).
• Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, colonial administrator (b.1825).

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