1932 in France

none July 2022 1932 Events from the year 1932 in France. Incumbents President: Paul Doumer (until 7 May), Albert Lebrun (starting 10 May) President of the Council of Ministers: until 20 February: Pierre Laval 20 February-3 June: Édouard Daladier 3 June-26 November: Édouard Herriot starting 26 November: Joseph Paul-Boncour 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.La catastrophe du sous-marin Prométhée vue de Bretagne http://enenvor.fr/eeo_actu/mer/la_catastrophe_du_sous_marin_promethee_vue_de_bretagne.html 2025-10-20 enenvor.fr Aperitif Ricard first produced by Paul Ricard in Marseille. 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.Cossins Peter Le Tour 100: The definitive history of the world's greatest race 2013 Octopus 9781844037599 248 https://books.google.com/books?id=-eRYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA248 en 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq. Births January to June thumb|100px|Michel Legrand thumb|100px|Jean-Pierre Marielle 31 January – Raymond Kaelbel, international soccer player (d. 2007) 6 February – François Truffaut, screenwriter, film director, producer and actor (d. 1984) 18 February – Alphonse Halimi, boxer (d. 2006) 19 February – Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director (d. 1988) 22 February – Robert Opron, automotive designer (d. 2021) 24 February – Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist (d. 2019) 18 March – Denise Cacheux, politician (d. 2023) 30 March – Ted Morgan, French-born biographer and journalist 4 April – Pierre Lacotte, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2023) 7 April – Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause (d. 1993) 8 April – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, film director and screenwriter 12 April – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d. 2019) 16 April – Pierre Milza, French historian (d. 2018) 26 April – Francis Lai, French composer (d. 2018) 27 April – Anouk Aimée, born (Nicole) Françoise Dreyfus, film actress (d. 2024) 1 May – Charles Ducasse, soccer player (d. 1983) 17 May – Archiguille, painter (d. 2017) 21 May – Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist (d. 2007) July to December thumb|100px|Jacques Chirac 1 July- Ze'ev Schiff, French-born Israeli military journalist (d. 2007) 21 July - Marie-Claire Bancquart, poet and critic (d. 2019) 22 July – Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player (d. 2017) 17 August – Jean-Jacques Sempé, cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) (d. 2022) 18 August – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2022) 19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator (d. 1990) 25 August - Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and impresario (d. 1984) 18 September – Jean-Michel Defaye, musician (d. 2025) 1 October – Manuel Busto, French racing cyclist (d. 2017) 13 October – Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d. 2018) 24 October - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991 (d. 2007) 27 October - Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor (d. 2007)Jean-Pierre Cassel French actor https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Pierre-Cassel Encyclopædia Britannica 29 October 2019 en 30 October - Louis Malle, film director (d. 1995) 3 November – Guillaume Bieganski, French footballer (d. 2016) 8 November – Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018) 9 November – Serge Roy, French footballer (d. 2025) 20 November – André Soltner, chef and food writer (d. 2025) 29 November - Jacques Chirac, President of France (d. 2019) 1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player (d. 2005) 2 December - Michel Guerry, politician 15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world champion (d. 1964) 21 December - Jean-Jacques Guyon, equestrian (d. 2017) Full date unknown André Pascal, songwriter and composer (d. 2001) Deaths January to June 7 January - André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line (born 1877) February - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (born 1847) 16 February Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (born 1841) Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (born 1868) 28 February - Guillaume Bigourdan, astronomer (born 1851) 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) 24 March – Frantz Reichel, Olympic gold medalist in rugby (born 1871)Mallon Bill The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary 2009 McFarland 978-0-7864-8952-7 276 https://books.google.com/books?id=CHYwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA276 7 May - Paul Doumer, President of France (assassinated) (born 1857) 9 June - Émile Friant, painter (born 1863) 29 June - Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist (born 1842) 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) 24 September – Rose Combe, writer and railway worker (born 1883)Dupuy Aimé Rose Combe, garde-barrière et romancière La Vie du Rail 1951 2 FR 15 October - Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, and feminist (born 1846) 29 October - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (born 1872) Full date unknown Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the cinématographe (born 1872) See also Interwar France List of French films of 1932 References 1932 France France Category:1930s in France Category:Years of the 20th century in France