1943 in France

Events from the year 1943 in France.

Incumbents

15 January – Fernand Grenier broadcasts on Radio Londres offering Communist support for Free France.
22 January – Round up of Marseille, organized by Nazi Germany, begins: French police carry out a raid in the Old Port to arrest Jews.
24 January – Round up of Marseille ends with 30,000 people expelled from their neighborhood and 2,000 Jews eventually sent to the extermination camps.
9 February – Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup: The Gestapo, directed by Klaus Barbie, arrest 86 Jews in Lyon.
21 May – Riom Trial ends, attempt by Vichy France regime to prove that the leaders of the French Third Republic had been responsible for France's defeat by Germany in 1940.
21 June – Resistance leaders Jean Moulin, Henri Aubry, Raymond Aubrac, Bruno Larat, André Lassagne, Colonel Albert Lacaze, Colonel Émile Schwarzfeld, René Hardy and Dr Frédéric Dugoujon are arrested at a meeting in Dugoujon's house in Caluire-et-Cuire, a suburb of Lyon, and sent to Montluc Prison in Lyon.
21 October – Lucie Aubrac and others in her Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment.
22 November – Lebanon gains independence from France.

25 April – The 41st edition of the Paris-Roubaix bicycle race resumes following three years of cancellations due to war. Marcel Kint wins the race in 6h 01' 32".