1939 in France

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

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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.

port

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

Deaths

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

Full date unknown

*Henri Bénard, physicist (b.1874).
*Jules-Felix Coutan, sculptor (b.1848).

References