1932 in France

← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in France → 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of France Timeline of French history List of years in France

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. ^[1]
• 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. ^[2]
• 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq. ^[2]

Births

January to June

Michel Legrand

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

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) ^[3]
• 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) ^[4]
• 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) ^[5]
• 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

1. "La catastrophe du sous-marin Prométhée vue de Bretagne". enenvor.fr. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
2. Cossins, Peter (2013). Le Tour 100: The definitive history of the world's greatest race. Octopus. p. 248. ISBN   9781844037599.
3. "Jean-Pierre Cassel | French actor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
4. Mallon, Bill (2009). The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. McFarland. p. 276. ISBN   978-0-7864-8952-7.
5. Dupuy, Aimé (1951). "Rose Combe, garde-barrière et romancière". La Vie du Rail (in French): 2.