1927 in France

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue
• President of the Council of Ministers: Raymond Poincaré

Events

• 20 May–21 May – First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
• 13 June – Léon Daudet, leader of French monarchists, is arrested after barricading himself into his house to avoid the police.
• 18 October – The Schwartzbard trial, relating to the murder of Symon Petliura, begins.

Sport

• 19 June – Tour de France begins.
• 17 July – Tour de France ends, won by Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg.

Births

January to March

• 1 January – Maurice Béjart, choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne
• 7 February – Juliette Gréco, singer and actress
• 20 February – Hubert de Givenchy, aristocrat and fashion designer
• 23 February – Régine Crespin, opera singer
• 7 March – Philippe Clay, mime artist, singer and actor
• 19 March – Gisèle Lestrange, graphic artist
• 27 March – François Furet, historian

April to June

• 15 April – Maurice Ronet, actor, director and writer
• 25 April – Albert Uderzo, comic book artist and scriptwriter
• 3 May – Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard, athlete
• 4 May – Jacques Lanzmann, writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer
• 18 May – François Nourissier, journalist and writer
• 24 May – Claude Abbes, international soccer player
• 20 June – Bernard Cahier, Formula One photo-journalist

July to September

• 3 July – Pierre Cahuzac, soccer player
• 13 July – Simone Veil, lawyer and politician
• 16 July – Serge Baudo, French conductor
• 17 July – Jean Casadesus, classical pianist
• 19 July – Hervé Pinoteau, historian and royalist apologist
• 23 July – Gérard Brach, film director and screenwriter
• 27 July – Pierre Granier-Deferre, film director
• 14 August – Roger Carel, actor and voice talent
• 7 September – François Billetdoux, playwright and novelist
• 13 September – Mathé Altéry, soprano and actress
• 13 September – Maurice Lafont, international soccer player

October to December

• 19 October – Jean Bastien-Thiry, attempted assassin of President Charles de Gaulle in 1962
• 24 October -
• *Gilbert Bécaud, singer, composer and actor
• *Jean-Claude Pascal, costume designer and singer
• 18 November – Gérard Calvet, Roman Catholic abbot
• 1 December – Micheline Bernardini, dancer and model
• 9 December – Pierre Henry, musique concrète composer
• 25 December – Georges Besse, businessman
• 30 December – Robert Hossein, actor

Full date unknown

• Claude Ponsard, economist

Deaths

• 12 March – Léon Denis, spiritist philosopher and researcher
• 23 March – Paul César Helleu, artist
• 15 April – Gaston Leroux, journalist, detective and novelist
• 18 June – Gustave Charles Fagniez, historian and economist
• 30 June – Édouard Louis Trouessart, zoologist
• 10 July – Louise Abbéma, painter and designer
• 4 August – Eugène Atget, photographer
• 30 November – Célanie Carissan, composer, writer and pianist