1931 in France
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Events from the year 1931 in France.
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Incumbents
- President: Gaston Doumergue (until 13 June), Paul Doumer (starting 13 June)
- President of the Council of Ministers: Theodore Steeg (until 27 January), Pierre Laval (starting 27 January)
Events
- 27 January â Pierre Laval forms a government in France.
- 6 May â Paris Colonial Exposition opens.
- 13 May â Paul Doumer elected president of France.
- 14 June â Overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from Ãle 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.
Births
January to June
- 7 February â Serge Danot, animator (died 1991)
- 26 February â Jacques Rouxel, animator (died 2004)
- 6 March â Nicolas Barone, cyclist (died 2003)
- 24 May â Michael Lonsdale, actor
- 3 June â Jean Bouise, actor (died 1989)
- 5 June â Jacques Demy, film director (died 1990)
- 30 June â Joseph Thomin, racing cyclist (died 2018)
July to December
- 1 July â Leslie Caron, actress
- 3 July â Claude-Henri Chouard, surgeon
- 4 July â Sébastien Japrisot, author, screenwriter and film director (died 2003)
- 6 July â Louis Mexandeau, politician
- 24 July â Ãric Tabarly, sailor (died 1998)
- 23 August â Coccinelle, transsexual actress and entertainer (died 2006)
- 13 October â Raymond Kopa, footballer (died 2017)
- 25 October â Annie Girardot, actress (died 2011)
- 5 November â Thérèse Aillaud, politician (died 2015)[1]
- 6 November â André Trochut, cyclist (died 1996)
- 17 November â Pierre Nora, historian (died 2025)
- 12 December â Christian Metz, film theorist (died 1993)
- 18 December â André S. Labarthe, French actor (died 2018)
- 28 December â Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (died 1994)
Deaths
- 3 January â Joseph Joffre, general (born 1852)
- 7 January - Joseph Bernard, sculptor (born 1866)
- 1 February â Emmanuel d'Orléans, noble from the House of Orléans (born 1872)
- 4 February â Dominique-Marie Gauchet, admiral (born 1853)
- 31 March â Henri Béraldi, bibliophile and publisher (born 1849)
- 7 May â Anne Boutiaut Poulard, cook (born 1851)
- 22 June â Armand Fallières, politician, President of France (born 1841)
- 11 July â Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist artist (born 1852)
- 2 November â Alexandre Darracq, automobile manufacturer (born 1855)
- 7 November â Ãtienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (born 1846)
- 2 December â Vincent d'Indy, composer (born 1851)
- 13 December â Gustave Le Bon, psychologist (born 1841)