1931 in France

Events from the year 1931 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue (until 13 June), Paul Doumer (starting 13 June)
• President of the Council of Ministers: Theodore Steeg (until 27 January), Pierre Laval (starting 27 January)

Events

• 27 January – Pierre Laval forms a government in France.
• 6 May – Paris Colonial Exposition opens.
• 13 May – Paul Doumer elected president of France.
• 14 June – Overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the river Loire and over 450 drown.
• 8 November- French police launch a large scale raid against Corsican bandits.

Births

January to June

• 7 February – Serge Danot, animator (died 1991)
• 26 February – Jacques Rouxel, animator (died 2004)
• 6 March – Nicolas Barone, cyclist (died 2003)
• 24 May – Michael Lonsdale, actor
• 3 June – Jean Bouise, actor (died 1989)
• 5 June – Jacques Demy, film director (died 1990)
• 30 June – Joseph Thomin, racing cyclist (died 2018)

July to December

• 1 July – Leslie Caron, actress
• 3 July – Claude-Henri Chouard, surgeon
• 4 July – Sébastien Japrisot, author, screenwriter and film director (died 2003)
• 6 July – Louis Mexandeau, politician
• 24 July – Éric Tabarly, sailor (died 1998)
• 23 August – Coccinelle, transsexual actress and entertainer (died 2006)
• 13 October – Raymond Kopa, footballer (died 2017)
• 25 October – Annie Girardot, actress (died 2011)
• 6 November – André Trochut, cyclist (died 1996)
• 17 November – Pierre Nora, historian (died 2025)
• 12 December – Christian Metz, film theorist (died 1993)
• 18 December – André S. Labarthe, French actor (died 2018)
• 28 December – Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (died 1994)

Deaths

• 3 January – Joseph Joffre, general (born 1852)
• 7 January - Joseph Bernard, sculptor (born 1866)
• 1 February – Emmanuel d'Orléans, noble from the House of Orléans (born 1872)
• 4 February – Dominique-Marie Gauchet, admiral (born 1853)
• 31 March – Henri Béraldi, bibliophile and publisher (born 1849)
• 7 May – Anne Boutiaut Poulard, cook (born 1851)
• 22 June – Armand Fallières, politician, President of France (born 1841)
• 11 July – Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist artist (born 1852)
• 2 November – Alexandre Darracq, automobile manufacturer (born 1855)
• 7 November – Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (born 1846)
• 2 December – Vincent d'Indy, composer (born 1851)
• 13 December – Gustave Le Bon, psychologist (born 1841)

See also

• Interwar France