1930 in France

Events from the year 1930 in France.

Incumbents

10 February – Yen Bai mutiny takes place, an uprising by Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army's garrison in Yen Bai.
22 April – London Naval Treaty is agreed between United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States.
17 May – Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland. They depart by 30 June.
21 June – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
7 September – Marcel Cachin launches the first Fête de l'Humanité in Bezons
5 October – British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.

2 July – Tour de France begins.
13 July – The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
27 July – Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq.

1 January – Jean-Pierre Duprey, poet and sculptor
13 January – Françoise Prévost, actress
3 February – Roger Duchêne, biographer
20 February – Pierre Gabaye, composer
1 March – Pierre Max Dubois, composer
6 March – Lorin Maazel, conductor, violinist and composer
10 April – Claude Bolling, jazz pianist, composer and arranger
14 April – René Desmaison, mountaineer, climber and alpinist
29 April – Jean Rochefort, actor
30 April – Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher
25 May – Sonia Rykiel, fashion designer
9 June – Monique Serf, singer
24 June
* Pierre Restany, art critic and cultural philosopher
* Claude Chabrol, film director and cinema critic

15 July – Jacques Derrida, philosopher
23 July – Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian
1 August – Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
17 August – Jean Bourlès, cyclist
24 September – Catherine Robbe-Grillet, actress, writer, photographer and dominatrix
1 October – Philippe Noiret, actor
5 October – Raymond Guiot, flautist and composer
10 October – Yves Chauvin, chemist, recipient of 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
18 October – Michel Drach, film director, writer, film producer and actor
29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, painter and filmmaker
13 November
* Michel Robin, actor
* René-Samuel Sirat, rabbi
14 November – Pierre Bergé, entrepreneur
3 December – Jean-Luc Godard, film director
4 December – René Privat, cyclist
11 December – Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor