1934 in France

Events from the year 1934 in France.

Incumbents

6 February – 6 February 1934 crisis: an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues finishes in a riot and leads to the resignation of Édouard Daladier.
9 February – Gaston Doumergue forms a new government.
18 February – Orchestre national is founded by decree of the Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones Jean Mistler as an ensemble of 80 musicians, with Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht as musical director. The orchestra plays its first concert on 13 March at the Conservatoire de Paris.
9 October – King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseille.
2 December – first public performance by the Quintette du Hot Club de France at the Ecole Normale de Musique, 78 rue Cardinet in Paris, as "Un orchestre d'un genre nouveau de Jazz Hot", led by Django Reinhardt.

1 January – Asher Peres, French-born Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory
8 January – Jacques Anquetil, cyclist, five times Tour de France winner
14 January – Pierre Darmon, tennis player
25 January – Jean-Pierre Yvaral, artist
27 January – Édith Cresson, Prime Minister of France
11 February – Maryse Condé, novelist
27 February – Vincent Fourcade, interior designer
2 March – Robert Batailly, politician
15 April – Solange Fernex, pacifist activist and politician
17 May – Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer
28 May – Jean Haudry, linguist
4 June – Pierre Eyt, Roman Catholic cardinal
11 June – Prince Henrik of Denmark, born Henri Laborde de Monpezat
20 June – Georges Lemoine, politician
6 July – Michel Crauste, rugby union player
9 July – Pierre Perret, singer and composer
17 July – Philippe Capdenat, composer
18 July – Jean-Michel Sanejouand, painter and sculptor
26 July – Jean Marie Balland, Roman Catholic Cardinal
21 August – Paul-André Meyer, mathematician
16 September – Paul-Louis Halley, billionaire businessman
28 September – Brigitte Bardot, actress and animal rights activist
5 October – Monique Papon, politician
26 October – Jacques Loussier, classical/jazz pianist

6 January – Fernand Lataste, zoologist
14 January – Paul Marie Eugène Vieille, chemist and gunsmith
19 February – Ellen Richards Ridgway, American golfer
28 May – Eugenie Besserer, actress
15 June – Alfred Bruneau, composer
4 July – Marie Curie, physicist
8 July – Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer
25 July – François Coty, perfume manufacturer
27 July – Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France
15 October – Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France
2 November – Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist
12 November – Walther Bensemann, German-Jewish association football pioneer
17 November – Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, psychiatrist
4 December – Paul-Albert Besnard, painter