1929 in France

Events from the year 1929 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue
• President of the Council of Ministers:
  • until 29 July: Raymond Poincaré
  • 29 July-2 November: Aristide Briand
  • starting 2 November: André Tardieu

Events

• 24 July – Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons – he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
• 24 July – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on 27 August 1928 by most leading world powers).
• 5 September – Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.
• 22 October – Briand's government falls.

Arts and literature

• 15 January – First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in by Armand Colin.
• October
  • Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met for the first time while he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. 21-year-old De Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre.
  • La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition including Yves Tanguy.

Sport

• 30 June – Tour de France begins.
• 28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium.

Births

January to June

• 20 January
  • Jean-Jacques Perrey, electronic music producer (died 2016)
• 5 February – Luc Ferrari, composer (died 2005)
• 6 February – Pierre Brice, actor (died 2015)
• 7 February – François Fontan, politician (died 1979)
• 8 February – Claude Rich, actor and screenwriter (died 2017)
• 10 February
  • Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist (died 2006)
  • Christine Renard, fantasy writer (died 1979)
• 19 February – Jacques Deray, film director (died 2003)
• 26 March – Charles Dumont, singer-songwriter (died 2024)
• 7 April – Bob Denard, mercenary (died 2007)
• 8 April – François Bruhat, mathematician (died 2007)
• 23 April – George Steiner, literary critic and philosopher (died 2020)
• 1 May – Valentin Huot, racing cyclist (died 2017)
• 31 May – Joseph Bernardo, Olympic swimmer (died 2023)
• 27 June – Maurice Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (died 2007)

July to December

• 6 July – Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, historian (died 2023)
• 13 July – René Laloux, animator and film director (died 2004)
• 15 July – Alain Porthault, sprinter (died 2019)
• 16 July – Gaby Tanguy, swimmer (died 1981)
• 29 July – Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist (died 2007)
• 9 September – Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter (died 2004)
• 21 September – Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist (died 2005)
• 19 October – Henri Cueco, painter (died 2017)
• 23 October – Josy Moinet, politician (died 2018)
• 11 November – Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany (died 2008)
• 20 November – Raymond Lefèvre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer (died 2008)
• 7 December – Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer (died 1985)

Deaths

January to June

• 21 January – Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (born 1844)
• 30 January – La Goulue, dancer (born 1866)
• 19 February – Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (born 1842)
• 15 March – Félix Balzer, physician (born 1849)
• 20 March – Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer (born 1851)
• 22 April – Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron (born 1848)
• 24 April – Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, socialist, journalist and feminist (born 1855)
• 25 June – Charles-Victor Langlois, historian and paleographer (born 1863)

July to December

• 10 August – Pierre Fatou, mathematician (born 1878)
• 23 September – Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (born 1856)
• 1 October – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (born 1861)
• 24 November – Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (born 1841)
• 20 December – Émile Loubet, politician and 7th President of France (born 1838)
• 21 December – Gustave Belot, professor and philosopher (born 1859)

See also

• List of French films of 1929