1935 in France
Events from the year 1935 in France.
Incumbents
- President: Albert Lebrun
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- * until 1 June: Pierre-Étienne Flandin
- * 1 June-7 June: Fernand Bouisson
- * starting 7 June: Pierre Laval
Events
- January – Foreign Minister Pierre Laval went to Rome to meet Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
- 7 January – Franco-Italian Agreement is signed in Rome in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
- 14 April – Stresa Front agreement is concluded between France, Britain and Italy.
- 2 May – Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance is concluded.
- December – Hoare–Laval Pact signed with Great Britain.
Sport
- 4 July – Tour de France begins.
- 28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Romain Maes of Belgium
Births
- 2 February – Jean-Louis Verdier, mathematician
- 12 March
- *Jacques Benveniste, immunologist
- *Paul John Marx, French-Papua Roman Catholic prelate
- 5 May – Bernard Pivot, journalist and television personality
- 7 May – Gérard Lefranc, fencer
- 1 June – Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, mathematician.
- 15 June – Robert Lamartine, soccer player
- 21 June – Françoise Sagan, playwright, novelist and screenwriter
- 24 August – Christian Liger, French writer
- 18 September – Raymond Vautherin, French-Italian linguist, poet and playwright
- 25 September – Adrien Douady, mathematician
- 8 October – Albert Roux, chef
- 8 November – Alain Delon, actor
- 9 November – Claude Kahn, pianist
- 18 November – Alain Barrière, singer
Deaths
- 12 February – Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer
- 17 May – Paul Dukas, composer and teacher
- 3 July – André Citroën, automobile pioneer
- 12 July – Alfred Dreyfus, military officer, victim in the Dreyfus Affair
- 30 August – Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist
- 4 October – Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist
- 4 December – Charles Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913
- 13 December – Victor Grignard, chemist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912