1929 in France

Events from the year 1929 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

24 July â Prime Minister Raymond PoincarÃ© resigns for medical reasons â he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
24 July â The KelloggâBriand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on 27 August 1928 by most leading world powers).
5 September â Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.
22 October â Briand's government falls.

15 January â First issue of Annales d'histoire Ã©conomique et sociale published in by Armand Colin.
October
- Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met for the first time while he studied at the Ãcole Normale SupÃ©rieure in Paris. 21-year-old De Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the agrÃ©gation in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre.
- La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition including Yves Tanguy.^[1]

20 January
- Jean-Jacques Perrey, electronic music producer (died 2016)
5 February â Luc Ferrari, composer (died 2005)
6 February â Pierre Brice, actor (died 2015)
7 February â FranÃ§ois Fontan, politician (died 1979)
8 February â Claude Rich, actor and screenwriter (died 2017)
10 February
- Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist (died 2006)
- Christine Renard, fantasy writer (died 1979)
19 February â Jacques Deray, film director (died 2003)
26 March â Charles Dumont, singer-songwriter (died 2024)
7 April â Bob Denard, mercenary (died 2007)
8 April â FranÃ§ois Bruhat, mathematician (died 2007)
23 April â George Steiner, literary critic and philosopher (died 2020)
1 May â Valentin Huot, racing cyclist (died 2017)^[2]
31 May â Joseph Bernardo, Olympic swimmer^[3] (died 2023)
27 June â Maurice Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (died 2007)

15 July â Alain Porthault, sprinter (died 2019)
16 July â Gaby Tanguy, swimmer (died 1981)
29 July â Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist (died 2007)
9 September â Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter (died 2004)
21 September â Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist (died 2005)
19 October â Henri Cueco, painter (died 2017)
23 October â Josy Moinet, politician (died 2018)
11 November â Gwenc'hlan Le ScouÃ«zec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany (died 2008)
20 November â Raymond LefÃ¨vre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer (died 2008)
7 December â Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer (died 1985)

21 January â Ãtienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (born 1844)
30 January â La Goulue, dancer (born 1866)
19 February â Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (born 1842)
20 March â Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer (born 1851)
22 April â Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron (born 1848)
25 June â Charles-Victor Langlois, historian and paleographer (born 1863)

10 August â Pierre Fatou, mathematician (born 1878)
23 September â Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (born 1856)
1 October â Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (born 1861)
24 November â Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (born 1841)
20 December â Ãmile Loubet, politician and 7th President of France (born 1838)
21 December â Gustave Belot, professor and philosopher (born 1859)