1948 in France

Incumbents

• President: Vincent Auriol
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 24 July: Robert Schuman
• * 24 July-2 September: André Marie
• * 2 September-11 September: Robert Schuman
• * starting 11 September: Henri Queuille

Events

• 17 March – Treaty of Brussels, is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, aimed mainly at defending against possible German rearmament.
• 5 September – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 7 October – Citroën 2CV economy car introduced at the Paris Motor Show.

Sport

• 30 June – Tour de France begins.
• 25 July – Tour de France ends, won by Gino Bartali of Italy.

Births

• 17 February – Philippe Khorsand, actor
• 10 March – Jean-Pierre Adams, international soccer player
• 11 March – Dominique Sanda, actress
• 9 April – Bernard-Marie Koltès, playwright and director
• 20 June – Véronique de Montchalin, politician
• 19 July – Bernard Drubay, sailor
• 30 July – Jean Reno, actor
• 3 August – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France
• 18 September – Jean-Louis Pichon, stage director and opera manager
• 8 October – Claude Jade, actress
• 27 December – Gérard Depardieu, actor

Deaths

• 7 January – Jean-Baptiste Chabot, priest and Syriac scholar
• 15 January – Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, astronomer
• 12 February – Caroline Lacroix, courtesan
• 4 March
• *Antonin Artaud, dramatist, poet, actor and director
• *Lucien Rouzet, physicist and inventor
• 12 March – Antoine Lacroix, mineralogist and geologist
• 5 July – Georges Bernanos, author
• 6 July – René de Labarrière, first UN soldier killed in action
• 31 July – Georges Blondel, historian
• 25 September – Pierre Frondaie, poet, novelist and playwright
• 11 October – André Bloch, mathematician