1932 in France
Events from the year 1932 in France.
Incumbents
- President: Paul Doumer, Albert Lebrun
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- * until 20 February: Pierre Laval
- * 20 February-3 June: Édouard Daladier
- * 3 June-26 November: Édouard Herriot
- * starting 26 November: Joseph Paul-Boncour
Events
- 1 May - Legislative Election held.
- 6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul Doumer in Paris. Doumer dies the next day.
- 8 May - Legislative Election held.
- 10 May - Albert Lebrun becomes the new President of France.
- 7 July - French submarine Prométhée sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead.
- Aperitif Ricard first produced by Paul Ricard in Marseille.
Arts and literature
- 14 January - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.
Sport
- 6 July - Tour de France begins.
- 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq.
Births
January to June
- 31 January – Raymond Kaelbel, international soccer player
- 6 February – François Truffaut, screenwriter, film director, producer and actor
- 18 February – Alphonse Halimi, boxer
- 19 February – Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director
- 22 February – Robert Opron, automotive designer
- 24 February – Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist
- 18 March – Denise Cacheux, politician
- 30 March – Ted Morgan, French-born biographer and journalist
- 4 April – Pierre Lacotte, ballet dancer and choreographer
- 7 April – Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause
- 8 April – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, film director and screenwriter
- 12 April – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor
- 16 April – Pierre Milza, French historian
- 26 April – Francis Lai, French composer
- 27 April – Anouk Aimée, born Françoise Dreyfus, film actress
- 1 May – Charles Ducasse, soccer player
- 17 May – Archiguille, painter
- 21 May – Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist
July to December
- 1 July- Ze'ev Schiff, French-born Israeli military journalist
- 21 July - Marie-Claire Bancquart, poet and critic
- 22 July – Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player
- 17 August – Jean-Jacques Sempé, cartoonist
- 18 August – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
- 19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator
- 25 August - Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and impresario
- 18 September – Jean-Michel Defaye, musician
- 1 October – Manuel Busto, French racing cyclist
- 13 October – Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer
- 24 October - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991
- 27 October - Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor
- 30 October - Louis Malle, film director
- 3 November – Guillaume Bieganski, French footballer
- 8 November – Stéphane Audran, French actress
- 9 November – Serge Roy, French footballer
- 20 November – André Soltner, chef and food writer
- 29 November - Jacques Chirac, President of France
- 1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player
- 2 December - Michel Guerry, politician
- 15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world champion
- 21 December - Jean-Jacques Guyon, equestrian
Full date unknown
- André Pascal, songwriter and composer
Deaths
January to June
- 7 January - André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line
- February - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought
- 16 February
- * Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927
- * Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general
- 28 February - Guillaume Bigourdan, astronomer
- 7 March - Aristide Briand, statesman, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 3 May - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle
- 24 March – Frantz Reichel, Olympic gold medalist in rugby
- 7 May - Paul Doumer, President of France
- 9 June - Émile Friant, painter
- 29 June - Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist
July to December
- 5 July - René-Louis Baire, mathematician
- 18 July - Jean Jules Jusserand, author and diplomat
- 20 July - René Bazin, novelist
- 23 September - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer
- 24 September – Rose Combe, writer and railway worker
- 15 October - Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, and feminist
- 29 October - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist
Full date unknown
- Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the ''cinématographe''