1929 in France

See also: 1928 in France, other events of 1929, 1930 in France.

Events from the year 1929 in France.

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 (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
• 5 September - Aristide Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.

Arts and literature

• 15 January - First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in by Armand Colin.

Sport

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

Births

January to June

• 5 February - Luc Ferrari, composer (died 2005).
• 6 February - Pierre Brice, actor.
• 10 February - Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist (died 2006).
• 19 February - Jacques Deray, film director (died 2003).
• 7 April - Bob Denard, mercenary (died 2007).
• 8 April - François Bruhat, mathematician (died 2007).
• 27 June - Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (died 2007).

July to December

• 13 July - René Laloux, animator and film director (died 2004).
• 29 July - Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist (died 2007).
• 9 September - Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter (died 2004).
• 21 September - Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist (died 2005).
• 11 November - Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany (died 2008).
• 20 November - Raymond Lefèvre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer (died 2008).
• 7 December - Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer (died 1985).

Full date unknown

• François Fontan, politician (died 1979).
• Francine Lancelot, dancer, choreographer and dance historian (died 2003).
• Christine Renard, writer (died 1979).

Deaths

January to June

• 21 January - Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (born 1844).
• 30 January - La Goulue, dancer (born 1866).
• 19 February - Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (born 1842).
• 15 March - Félix Balzer, physician (born 1849).
• 20 March - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer (born 1851).
• 22 April - Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron (born 1848).
• 24 April - Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, socialist, journalist and feminist (born 1855).
• 25 June - Charles-Victor Langlois, historian and paleographer (born 1863).

July to December

• 10 August - Pierre Fatou, mathematician (born 1878).
• 23 September - Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (born 1856).
• 1 October - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (born 1861).
• 24 November - Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (born 1841).
• 20 December - Émile Loubet, politician and 7th President of France (born 1838).

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