1939 in France

See also: 1938 in France, other events of 1939, 1940 in France.

Events from the year 1939 in France.

Events

• 27 February - United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government in Spain.
• 17 June - Last public guillotining in France - murderer Eugen Weidmann.
• 3 September - United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany.

Sport

• 10 July - Tour de France begins.
• 30 July - Tour de France ends, won by Sylvère Maes of Belgium.

Births

• 1 February - Claude François, singer and songwriter (died 1978).
• 29 March - Roland Arnall, businessman and diplomat in the United States (died 2008).
• 3 April - François de Roubaix, film score composer (died 1975).
• 9 May - Pierre Desproges, humorist (died 1988).
• 30 September - Jean-Marie Lehn, chemist, shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987.
• 10 November - Maia Simon, actress (died 2007).

Deaths

• 14 October - Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (born 1874).
• 5 November - Charles Barrois, geologist and palaeontologist (born 1851).

Full date unknown

• Henri Bénard, physicist (born 1874).
• Jules-Felix Coutan, sculptor (born 1848).

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