1926 in France
Events from the year 1926 in France.
Incumbents
- President: Gaston Doumergue
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- * until 20 July: Aristide Briand
- * 20 July-23 July: Édouard Herriot
- * starting 23 July: Raymond Poincaré
Events
- 9 May – French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots.
- 15 July – Grand Mosque of Paris inaugurated.
- 24 November – The village of Rocquebillier on the Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.
- The Guide Michelin first awards stars to restaurants.
Arts and literature
- Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts institutes the Prix Puvis de Chavannes, named after co-founder and first president, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
Sport
- 20 June – Tour de France begins.
- 18 July – Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Buysse of Belgium.
Births
January to June
- 17 January – Robert Filliou, artist
- 2 February – Philippe Chatrier, tennis player
- 7 February – Pierre Villette, composer
- 11 February – Paul Bocuse, chef
- 19 February – Pierre Guénin, journalist, gay rights activist
- 1 March – Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer
- 19 March – Henri René Guieu, science fiction writer
- 13 April – André Testut, motor racing driver
- 8 May – Pierre Broué, historian and Trotskyist
- 5 June – Claude Berge, mathematician
- 12 June – Jean-Pierre Munch, cyclist
- 26 June – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist
July to December
- 6 July – Serge Roullet, film director and screenwriter
- 18 July – Bernard Pons, politician
- 26 July – Monique Pelletier, politician
- 10 August – Michel Breitman, writer and translator
- 14 August – René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist
- 16 August – Roger Agache, archaeologist
- 17 August
- *Maurice Lusien, swimmer
- *Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter
- 15 September – Jean-Pierre Serre, mathematician
- 17 September – Jean-Marie Lustiger, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris and cardinal
- 15 October – Michel Foucault, philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist
- 1 November – James Marson, politician
- 3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, painter
- 9 November – Raymond Hains, artist and photographer
- 2 December – Armand Avril, painter and sculptor died 2025)
- 12 December – Étienne-Émile Baulieu, biochemist
- 21 December – Georges Boudarel, academic and Communist militant
Deaths
- 14 January – René Boylesve, author
- 28 February – Alphonse [Louis Nicolas Borrelly], astronomer
- 26 March – Georges Aaron Bénédite, Egyptologist
- 2 July – Émile Coué, psychologist and pharmacist
- 21 September – Léon Charles Thévenin, telegraph engineer
- 30 September – Agnès Souret, model, "la plus belle femme de France"
- 5 December – Claude Monet, painter
- Date unknown – Jean-Camille Formigé, architect