1931 in France

"See also:"
1930 in France,
other events of 1931,
1932 in France.

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Events from the year 1931 in France.

Events

*27 January - Pierre Laval forms a government in France.
*27 March - British writer Arnold Bennett dies in Paris when he drinks local water to prove it is safe to drink - but is poisoned.
*6 May - Paris Colonial Exposition opens.
*13 May - Paul Doumer elected president of France.
*14 June - Overloaded pleasure craft "Saint-Philibert", carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the river Loire and over 450 drown.
*8 November- French police launch a large scale raid against Corsican bandits.

Arts and Literature

* The Persistence of Memory is put on display for the first time in Paris at the Galerie Pierre Colle.

port

*30 June - Tour de France begins.
*26 July - Tour de France ends, won by Antonin Magne.

Births

January to June

*26 February - Jacques Rouxel, animator (d.2004).
*6 March - Nicolas Barone, cyclist (d.2003).
*3 June - Jean Bouise, actor (d.1989).
*5 June - Jacques Demy, film director (d.1990).

July to December

*1 July - Leslie Caron, actress.
*4 July - Sébastien Japrisot, author, screenwriter and film director (d.2003).
*24 July - Éric Tabarly, sailor (d.1998).
*23 August - Coccinelle, transsexual actress and entertainer (d.2006).
*6 November - André Trochut, cyclist (d.1996).
*28 December - Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (d.1994).

Full date unknown

*Serge Danot, animator (d.1990).
*Christian Metz, film theorist (d.1993).

Deaths

*1 February - Emmanuel d'Orléans, noble from the House of Orléans (b.1872).
*22 June - Armand Fallières, politician and President of France (b.1841).
*7 November - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (b.1846).
*2 December - Vincent d'Indy, composer (b.1851).

Full date unknown

*Alexandre Darracq, automobile manufacturer (b.1855).

References