1939 in France

none August 2022 1939 Events from the year 1939 in France. Incumbents President: Albert Lebrun President of the Council of Ministers: Édouard Daladier Events 7 January – Physicist Marguerite Perey identifies francium, the last chemical element first discovered in nature.http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=fr 87 Francium Elementymology & Elements Multidict Peter van der Krogt 2019-01-07 26 January – Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, in response to rumours (which are true) that he is seeking to end the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, gives a speech in Paris highlighting his government's commitment to the cordon sanitaire. 6 February British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain states in Parliament that any German attack on France will be automatically considered an attack on Britain. In a response to Bonnet's speech of 26 January, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938, accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are "now off limits". 27 February – France and the United Kingdom recognize Franco's government in Spain.Juan Lalaguna A Traveller's History of Spain https://books.google.com/books?id=Yb4kpN7SZUkC 1999 Interlink Books 978-1-56656-324-6 259 20 March – At an emergency meeting in London to deal with the Romanian crisis, Bonnet suggests to Lord Halifax that the ideal state for saving Romania from a German attack is Poland. 14 April – Bonnet meets in Paris with Soviet Ambassador Jakob Suritz, and suggests that a "peace front" comprising France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland and Romania would deter Germany from war. 3 June – The Soviet government offers its definition of what constitutes "aggression", upon which the projected Anglo-Soviet-French alliance would come into effect; France accepts this definition at once. 17 June – Last public guillotining in France – of 6-times murderer Eugen Weidmann at Versailles.https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/17/eighty-years-since-versailles-execution-gave-public-guillotines-the-chop Eighty years since Versailles execution stopped public guillotine spectacles 2019-06-17 Vincent Coste Alastair Jamieson Euronews 2024-07-11 21 June – Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto is premièred in Paris. 23 June – Talks are completed in Ankara (Turkey) between French Ambassador René Massigli and Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu, resolving the Hatay dispute in Turkey's favor. 24 August – The French government advises the last French private citizens in Germany to leave. 26 August – Mobilization begins. 28 August – Ocean liner Normandie heads into New York Harbor, where she will be interned on 3 September, and cut up for scrap, beginning in 1946. 1 September – Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. France and Britain deliver ultimatums to Germany and France declares full mobilization. 3 September – French declaration of war on Germany by Prime Minister Édouard Daladier, thus entering World War II (along with the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms). 7 September – France opens the Saar Offensive. 10 September – The first troop convoy of the British Expeditionary Force to arrive in France disembarks in Cherbourg. 12 September – Anglo-French Supreme War Council first meets, at Abbeville (the Abbeville Conference) with the French delegation headed by Prime Minister Daladier.The Oxford Companion to World War II 2001 Oxford University Press 852Mazur Wojciech 2017 Offensive pour la Pologne? Wojskowe aspekty polityki mocarstw zachodnich wobec Polski a konferencja w Abbeville (wiosna–lato 1939 roku) https://rcin.org.pl/ihpan/dlibra/publication/84303/edition/65085 Kwartalnik Historyczny 124 4 699 10.12775/KH.2017.124.4.03 0023-5903 PolishMazur Wojciech 2023 "Sentymentu dla niej nie miał i nie ma..." Generał Maurice Gamelin wobec sojuszu Francji i Rzeczypospolitej (1935 r. – wrzesień 1939 r.) https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1242108 Dzieje Najnowsze Polish 55 4 17–41 10.12775/DN.2023.4.02 0419-8824 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-songwriter (died 1978) 29 March – Roland E. 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) 24 June – Brigitte Fontaine, singer, writer and poet 22 July – Warda Al-Jazairia, born Warda Mohammed Ftouki, singer (died 2012 in Egypt) 31 July – France Nuyen, actress 9 August – Bulle Ogier, actress 30 September – Jean-Marie Lehn, chemist, shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 6 November – Maurice Bourgue (died 2023) 30 December – Odile Bailleux, harpsichordist and organist (died 2024) Deaths 23 February – Jules-Felix Coutan, sculptor (born 1848) 29 March – Henri Bénard, physicist (born 1874) 5 April – Clémentine Delait, bearded lady (born 1865) 16 September – Otto Wels, German politician (born 1873) 14 October – Polaire (Emilie Marie Bouchaud), singer and actress (born 1874) 5 November – Charles Barrois, geologist and palaeontologist (born 1851)http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf 62 Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Biographical Index Part One 2015-03-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20150919152306/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf 2015-09-19 dead See also List of French films of 1939 References 1939 France France Category:1930s in France Category:Years of the 20th century in France