1931 in France

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1931
in
France

Decades:
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
See also:Other events of 1931
History of France  • Timeline  • Years

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)
  • 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)
  • 11 October - , film critic and animator (died 2021)
  • 13 October - Raymond Kopa, footballer (died 2017)
  • 25 October - Annie Girardot, actress (died 2011)
  • 6 November - André Trochut, cyclist (died 1996)
  • 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[]

  • 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 and President of France (born 1841)
  • 11 July - Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist artist (born 1852)
  • 7 November - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (born 1846)
  • 2 December - Vincent d'Indy, composer (born 1851)
  • Full date unknown - Alexandre Darracq, automobile manufacturer (born 1855)

See also[]

  • Interwar France

References[]

Links[]

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