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Events from the year 1918 in France.

Incumbents

21 March – Operation Michael begins in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, launching Germany's Spring Offensive.
23 March – The giant German cannon, called the Paris Gun, begins to shell Paris from 114 km (71 mi) away.
27 May – The Third Battle of the Aisne begins, an attempt by the Germans to capture the Chemin des Dames Ridge before the arrival of the American Expeditionary Force to support France.
1 June – The Battle of Belleau Wood begins, near the Marne River.^[1]
6 June – Third Battle of the Aisne ends with the German advance halted after initial gains.
26 June – Battle of Belleau Wood ends in Allied victory.
15 July – The Second Battle of the Marne begins, the last major German offensive on the Western Front.^[2]
18 July-22 July – The Battle of Soissons is fought between the French (with American assistance) and German armies.^[3]
5 August – Second Battle of the Marne ends with Allied victory.
8 August – Battle of Amiens begins.
12 September – British victory in Battle of Havrincourt.^[4]
12 September-15 September – Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Allied victory.
18 September – British victory in the Battle of Épehy.
8 October-10 October – The Battle of Cambrai ends in a decisive Allied victory.
7 November – The Anglo-French Declaration is signed between France and the United Kingdom, agreeing to implement a "complete and final liberation" of countries that had been part of the Ottoman Empire.
11 November – Battle of Amiens ends, when the armistice is signed.^[5]

Madeleine Giteau, historian (died 2005)
Gilbert Martineau, author and curator of the French properties on St Helena (died 1995)

9 January – Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (born 1844)
23 March — Hans Gottfried von Häbler, World War I German flying ace (born 1893)
25 March – Claude Debussy, composer (born 1862)
25 August – Henri Chantavoine, writer (born 1850)
5 October – Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (born 1888)
12 October – Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (born 1836)
13 October – Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer (born 1843)
9 November – Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (born 1880)
3 December – Étienne Destot, radiologist and anatomist (born 1864)
22 December – Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais, entomologist (born 1843)

^ "The Battle of Belleau Wood, 1918". First World War.com.
^ Michael S. Neiberg. The Second Battle of the Marne, 2008
^ The Second Battle of the Marne, firstworldwar.com, accessed 3 September 2009
^ Terraine, John (1978). To Win A War: 1918 The Year of Victory. Cassell & Co. ISBN 0-304-35321-3.
^ Zara S. Steiner, The lights that failed: European international history, 1919–1933, Part 720, Oxford history of modern Europe, Oxford University Press, 2005 p. 104, ISBN 0198221142