1941 in France

See also: 1940 in France, other events of 1941, 1942 in France.

Events from the year 1941 in France.

Events [edit]

• 17 January - Battle of Ko Chang. Decisive victory by the French over the Thai Navy.
• 3 February - The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, 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.
• 22 August - German Occupation Authority announces that anyone found either working for or aiding the Free French will be sentenced to death.
• 27 August - Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at Versailles.
• 24 November - The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
• 12 December - United States seizes French ship Normandie.

Sport [edit]

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

Births [edit]

• 2 January - Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, soccer player and manager (died 2002).
• 13 April - Jean-Marc Reiser, comics creator (died 1983).
• 20 May - Raymond Forni, Socialist politician (died 2008).
• 25 May - Jean-Pierre Hubert, author (died 2006).
• 17 July - Gribouille, singer (died 1968).
• 1 August - Étienne Roda-Gil, songwriter and screenwriter (died 2004).
• 26 October - François Duprat, negationist writer (died 1978).

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• Daniel Bernard, diplomat (died 2004).

Deaths [edit]

• 4 January - Henri Bergson, philosopher (born 1859).
• 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).

Full date unknown [edit]

• Jacques Curie, physicist (born 1856).

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