1932 in France

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

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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 Sromethee 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.

port

*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 (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.
*24 February - Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist.
*7 April - Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause (d.1993).
*1 May - Charles Ducasse, soccer player (d.1983).
*21 May - Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist (d.2007).

July to December

*19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator (d.1990).
*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).
*30 October - Louis Malle, film director (d.1995).
*29 November - Jacques Chirac, former President of France.
*1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player (d.2005).
*15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world champion (d.1964).

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

January to June

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

July to December

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

Full date unknown

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

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