1925 in France

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 17 April: Édouard Herriot
• * 17 April-28 November: Paul Painlevé
• * starting 28 November: Aristide Briand

  Events

• 21 May - 25 October International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble.
• 25 August – Occupation of the Ruhr ends with the evacuation of the last French troops.
• Cookware manufacturer Le Creuset established in Fresnoy-le-Grand.
• Ybry, a French luxury perfume and fashion house is founded.

  Sport

• 21 June – Tour de France begins.
• 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy.

  Births

January to March

• 1 January – Raymond Pellegrin, actor
• 6 January – Joseph-André Motte, furniture designer
• 7 January – Pierre Gripari, writer
• 18 January – Gilles Deleuze, philosopher
• 2 February – Marcela Delpastre, author
• 13 February – René Pleimelding, soccer player
• 16 February – François-Xavier Ortoli, politician, businessman, Minister and President of the European Commission
• 4 March – Paul Mauriat, musical director
• 12 March
• * Louison Bobet, cyclist, three times Tour de France winner
• * Georges Delerue, film composer
• 21 March – Max Varnel, film and television director
• 26 March – Pierre Boulez, composer and conductor

  April to June

• 10 April – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author
• 27 April – François Châtelet, historian of philosophy
• 30 April – Corinne Calvet, actress
• 3 May – Jean Séguy, sociologist of religions
• 17 May
• *Michel de Certeau, Jesuit and scholar
• *Claude Julien, journalist and editor
• 25 May – Claude Pinoteau, film director and scriptwriter
• 27 May – Jean-Paul Aron, writer and journalist
• 8 June – Claude Estier, politician and journalist
• 14 June – Jean-Louis Rosier, racing driver
• 25 June – Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, lawyer and politician
• 26 June – Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman

  July to September

• 3 July – Roger Chesneau, steeplechaser
• 8 July
• *Jean Cau, writer and journalist
• *Dominique Nohain, actor, dramatist and director
• 14 July – Gaston Rousseau, racing cyclist
• 19 July
• *Henri Beaujean, politician
• *Jean-Pierre Faye, philosopher, poet and writer
• 20 July
• *Jacques Delors, European politician
• *Frantz Fanon, Martinique-born psychiatrist and philosopher
• 6 August
• *Lilyan Chauvin, actress and writer
• *Guy Degrenne, businessman
• 21 August – Maurice Pialat, film director, screenwriter and actor
• 26 August – Alain Peyrefitte, scholar and politician
• 27 August – Darry Cowl, actor and musician
• 30 August – Laurent de Brunhoff, author and illustrator

  October to December

• 3 October – Simone Segouin, Resistance fighter
• 13 October – Armand Mouyal, epee fencer
• 31 October -
• *Roger Nimier, novelist
• *Franck Ténot, press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic
• 24 November – André Lévy, sinologist
• 27 November – Claude Lanzmann, documentary filmmaker and philosopher
• 2 December – Jacques Lacarrière, writer, critic, journalist, and essayist
• 5 December – Henri Oreiller, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist
• 7 December – Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian Formula One driver
• 23 December – Pierre Bérégovoy, politician and Prime Minister
• 26 December – Claude Meillassoux, economic anthropologist and Africanist

  Full date unknown

• Roger Giroux, poet
• Claude Tresmontant, philosopher, hellenist and theologian

  Deaths

January to June

• 29 January – Charles-Eusèbe Dionne, naturalist and taxidermist
• 10 February – Aristide Bruant, singer, comedian and nightclub owner
• 14 February – Jacques Rivière, man of letters
• 25 February – Louis Feuillade, film director
• 4 March – Roger de Barbarin, trap shooter
• 5 March
• *Clément Ader, engineer and aviation pioneer
• *Michel Verne, writer
• 19 March – Firmin Bouisset, poster artist
• 22 April – André Caplet, composer and conductor
• 3 May – Louis Delaporte, explorer and artist
• 12 May
• *Léonce Bénédite, art historian and curator
• *Charles Mangin, general during World War I
• 1 June – Lucien Guitry, actor
• 6 June – Pierre Louÿs, poet
• 13 June – Paul Teste, aviator

  July to December

• 1 July – Erik Satie, composer and pianist
• 5 August – Georges Palante, philosopher and sociologist
• 12 August – Leon Dehon, clergyman
• 7 September – René Viviani, politician, Prime Minister
• 29 September – Léon Bourgeois, politician, Prime Minister, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1920
• 31 October – Max Linder, actor
• 11 November – Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, poet, writer and pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry
• 21 December – Jules Méline, statesman, Prime Minister
• 22 December – Joseph Ravaisou, landscape painter
• 26 December – Jules Patenotre des Noyers, diplomat
• 27 December – Marie-Louise Jaÿ, businesswoman