1929 in France

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Events from the year 1929 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Gaston Doumergue
  • President of the Council of Ministers:

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.[1]

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 (d. 2017)
  • 10 February - Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist (died 2006)
  • 19 February - Jacques Deray, film director (died 2003)
  • 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)[2]
  • 31 May - Joseph Bernardo, Olympic swimmer[3]
  • 27 June - Maurice Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (died 2007)

July to December[]

  • 13 July - René Laloux, animator and film director (died 2004)
  • 15 July - Alain Porthault, French former sprinter (died 2019)
  • 16 July - Gaby Tanguy, French former 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)

Full date unknown[]

  • Christine Renard, writer (died 1979)

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

References[]

  1. ^ "Biographie De 1928 à 1943". Magritte Foundation. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Dordogne : disparition de l'ancien cycliste périgourdin Valentin Huot". 21 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "1929 in France". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
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