1932 in France

See also: 1931 in France, other events of 1932, 1933 in France.

Events from the year 1932 in France.

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.

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 (died 2007).
• 6 February - François Truffaut, screenwriter, film director, producer and actor (died 1984).
• 18 February - Alphonse Halimi, boxer (died 2006).
• 19 February - Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director (died 1988).
• 22 February - Robert Opron, automotive designer.
• 24 February - Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist.
• 7 April - Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause (died 1993).
• 1 May - Charles Ducasse, soccer player (died 1983).
• 21 May - Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist (died 2007).

July to December

• 1 July - Ze'ev Schiff, French-born Israeli military journalist (died 2007).
• 19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator (died 1990).
• 24 October - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991 (died 2007).
• 27 October - Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor (died 2007).
• 30 October - Louis Malle, film director (died 1995).
• 29 November - Jacques Chirac, former President of France.
• 1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player (died 2005).
• 15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world champion (died 1964).

Full date unknown

• Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and impresario (died 1984).
• André Pascal, song-writer and composer (died 2001).

Deaths

January to June

• 7 January - André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line (born 1877).
• 16 February - Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (born 1841).
• 16 February - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (born 1868).
• 7 March - Aristide Briand, statesman, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1862).
• 3 May - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle (born 1848).
• 7 May - Paul Doumer, President of France (assassinated) (born 1857).

July to December

• 5 July - René-Louis Baire, mathematician (born 1874).
• 18 July - Jean Jules Jusserand, author and diplomat (born 1855).
• 20 July - René Bazin, novelist (born 1853).
• 23 September - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer (born 1836).
• 29 October - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (born 1872).

Full date unknown

• Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist (born 1842).
• Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the cinématographe (born 1872).
• Émile Friant, painter (born 1863).
• Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (born 1847).

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