Birth of Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir is born in Paris to Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir and Francoise Brasseur.
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1908 in France
Explore 7 historical events and records for France in 1908.
Historical records for France in 1908
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Birth of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty is born at Rochefort-sur-Mer.
1st Plane Passenger
Taks the 1st aviation passenger, flies over Paris
Other events (month unknown)
Fantasmagorie
Directs Fantasmagorie, an early hand-drawn animated film.
Nobel Prize
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for devising a method of reproducing colours photographically through interference phenomena.
Study of Thomas Aquinas
Maritain turns intensively to the writings of Thomas Aquinas and develops the Thomist orientation of his mature philosophy.
War College
Appointed Head of the War College
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