1929 in France

Events from the year 1929 in France.

Incumbents

Events

24 July – Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons – he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
24 July – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect.
5 September – Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.
22 October – Briand's government falls.

Arts and literature

15 January – First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in by Armand Colin.
October
*Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met for the first time while he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. 21-year-old De Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre.
* La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition including Yves Tanguy.

Sport

30 June – Tour de France begins.
28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium.

Births

January to June

20 January
*Jean-Jacques Perrey, electronic music producer
5 February – Luc Ferrari, composer
6 February – Pierre Brice, actor
7 February – François Fontan, politician
8 February – Claude Rich, actor and screenwriter
10 February
*Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist
*Christine Renard, fantasy writer
19 February – Jacques Deray, film director
26 March – Charles Dumont, singer-songwriter
7 April – Bob Denard, mercenary
8 April – François Bruhat, mathematician
23 April – George Steiner, literary critic and philosopher
1 May – Valentin Huot, racing cyclist
31 May – Joseph Bernardo, Olympic swimmer
27 June – Maurice Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham

July to December

6 July – Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, historian
13 July – René Laloux, animator and film director
15 July – Alain Porthault, sprinter
16 July – Gaby Tanguy, swimmer
29 July – Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist
9 September – Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter
21 September – Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist
19 October – Henri Cueco, painter
23 October – Josy Moinet, politician
11 November – Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany
20 November – Raymond Lefèvre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer
7 December – Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer

Deaths

January to June

21 January – Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist
30 January – La Goulue, dancer
19 February – Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist
15 March – Félix Balzer, physician
20 March – Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer
22 April – Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron
24 April – Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, socialist, journalist and feminist
25 June – Charles-Victor Langlois, historian and paleographer

July to December

10 August – Pierre Fatou, mathematician
23 September – Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Paris
1 October – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
24 November – Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister
20 December – Émile Loubet, politician and 7th President of France
21 December – Gustave Belot, professor and philosopher