See also: 1901 in France, other events of 1902, 1903 in France.

Events from the year 1902 in France.

Events

• 13 April - A new car speed record of 74mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.
• 27 April - Legislative Election held.
• 11 May - Legislative Election held.

Arts and Literature

• January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.

Sport

Births

• 11 January - Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (d.1986).
• 25 January - André Beaufre, colonel (d.1975).
• 9 March - Elisabeth de Rothschild, World War II heroine (d.1945).
• 22 March - Madeleine Milhaud, actress (d.2008).
• 29 March - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (d.1967).
• 4 April - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, novelist, poet and journalist (d.1969).
• 3 May - Alfred Kastler, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate (d.1984).
• 8 May - André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (d.1994).
• 9 August - Zino Francescatti, violinist (d.1991).

Deaths

• 8 August - James Tissot, painter (b.1836).
• 29 September - Émile Zola, writer (b.1840).

Full date unknown

• Alexandre Bertrand, archaeologist (b.1820).

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