In Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, Thérèse Raquin and her second husband Laurent accidentally reveal to Thérèse's aunt, Madame Raquin ( who has suffered from locked-in syndrome after a stroke ), that they have killed Camille Raquin ( Madame Raquin's son ).

On September 3, 2004, the National Assembly voted 96 – 29 to amend the constitution to allow the pro-Syrian president, Émile Lahoud, three more years in office by extending a statute of limitations to nine years.

On September 3, 2004, the Lebanese Parliament voted 96-29 to amend the constitution to extend President Émile Lahoud's six-year term ( which was about to expire ) by another three years.

* September 29 – Émile Zola, French author ( b. 1840 )

* September 17 – Émile Augier, French dramatist ( d. 1889 )

Émile François Zola (; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902 ) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

On 19 September 1899, following a passionate campaign by his supporters, including leading artists and intellectuals like Émile Zola, Dreyfus was pardoned by President Émile Loubet in 1899 and released from prison.

Matinée de Septembre ( or September Morn ) is a painting by the French artist Paul Émile Chabas ( 1869 – 1937 ).

Émile Edmond Saisset ( September 16, 1814 – December 17, 1863 ) was a French philosopher.

Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (; 17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889 ) was a French dramatist.

* The Paris-Marseille-Paris Trail is held over 1710 km from 24 September to 3 October and won by Émile Mayade driving a Panhard-Levassor 8 hp model in a time of 67: 42: 58.

Émile Gallé ( Nancy, 8 May 1846 – Nancy, 23 September 1904 ) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement.

* September 20-Theo van Gogh, assisted by Émile Bernard, mounts an improvised retrospective exhibition of his brother Vincent's works in Theo's former Paris apartment.

Jack Mathieu Émile Lang ( ; born 2 September 1939 ) is a French politician.

Émile Egger ( 18 July 1813 – 1 September 1885 ) was a French scholar who was born in Paris.

Émile Eddé ( 1886, Damascus-28 September 1949 ) () was a Maronite Lebanese political figure.

Morlet identified the site as Neolithic in a report entitled Nouvelle Station Néolithique published in September 1925, with Émile Fradin listed as co-author.

The company was founded as Société Pathé Frères ( Pathé Brothers Company ) in Paris, France on 28 September 1896, by the four brothers Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques Pathé.

Émile Joseph " Butch " Bouchard, CM, CQ ( September 4, 1919 – April 14, 2012 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956.

Émile Boirac ( 26 August 1851-20 September 1917 ) was a French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of Esperanto and writer.

* Émile de Kératry: September 4 – October 10, 1870

Roland Émile Mousnier ( September 7, 1907 – February 8, 1993 ) was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.

Émile Henry ( 26 September 1872, Barcelona – 21 May 1894, Paris ) was a French anarchist, who on 12 February 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty.

Returning to France under the government of Émile Ollivier he took an active share in the revolution of 4 September 1870 and became secretary of the commission of national defence.

He finished 3 ’ 30 ” ahead of Albert Lemaître ( Peugeot ), followed by Doriot ( Peugeot ) at 16 ’ 30 ”, René Panhard ( Panhard ) at 33 ’ 30 ’’ and Émile Levassor ( Panhard ) at 55 ’ 30 ”.

* November 3 – Émile Roux, French physician ( b. 1853 )

In his general order № 2 of 3 July 1940, Vice Admiral Émile Muselier, two days after assuming the post of chief of the naval and air forces of the Free French, created the bow flag displaying the French colors with a red cross of Lorraine, and a cockade, which also featured the cross of Lorraine.

* 3 Émile Bouchard ( D ) December 4, 2009

Among his works are monographs on Gustave Flaubert ( 1899 ), André Chénier ( 1902 ), Émile Zola ( 1903 ); an admirably concise Histoire de la littérature française depuis le XVII ' siècle jusqu ' a nos jours ; series of literary studies on the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries ; Questions politiques ( 1899 ); Propos littéraires ( 3 series, 1902 – 1905 ); Le Libéralisme ( 1902 ); and L ' Anticléricalisme ( 1906 ); Vie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1911 ); Petite histoire de la littérature française ( 1913 ).

He finished 3 ’ 30 ” ahead of Albert Lemaître ( Peugeot ), followed by Doriot ( Peugeot ) at 16 ’ 30 ”, René Panhard ( Panhard ) at 33 ’ 30 ’’ and Émile Levassor ( Panhard ) at 55 ’ 30 ”.

Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel () ( 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956 ) was a French mathematician and politician.

Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye ( 5 April 1822 – 3 January 1892 ) was a Belgian economist.

Émile Mathis died in Geneva, 3 August 1956.

In his General Order n ° 2 of 3 July 1940, vice-admiral Émile Muselier, then chief of the naval and air forces of the Free French for only two days, created the bow flag displaying the French colours with a red Cross of Lorraine, and a cockade also featuring the Cross of Lorraine.

* 1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect ( d. 1914 )

In one of the forms in which probabilists now know this theorem, with its " dactylographic " typewriting monkeys (; the French word singe covers both the monkeys and the apes ), appeared in Émile Borel's 1913 article " Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité " ( Statistical mechanics and irreversibility ), and in his book " Le Hasard " in 1914.

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig ( 1914 )

Émile Friant's drawing of Marie Marvingt and her proposed air ambulance, 1914

In 1914 Marvingt was drawn by Émile Friant with her proposed air ambulance.

Émile Gentil ( 4 April 1866 – 30 March 1914 ) was a French colonial administrator, naval officer, and colonial military leader.