1929 in France

"See also:"
1928 in France,
other events of 1929,
1930 in France.

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Events from the year 1929 in France.

Events

*24 July - Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
*24 July - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
*5 September - Aristide Briand presents his plan of the "United States of Europe".

Arts and Literature

*15 January - First issue of "Annales d'histoire économique et sociale" published in by Armand Colin.

port

*30 June - Tour de France begins.
*28 July - Tour de France ends, won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium.

Births

January to June

*5 February - Luc Ferrari, composer (d.2005).
*6 February - Pierre Brice, actor.
*10 February - Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist (d.2006).
*19 February - Jacques Deray, film director (d.2003).
*7 April - Bob Denard, mercenary (d.2007).
*8 April - François Bruhat, mathematician (d.2007).
*27 June - Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (d.2007).

July to December

*13 July - René Laloux, animator and film director (d.2004).
*29 July - Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist (d.2007).
*9 September - Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter (d.2004).
*21 September - Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist (d.2005).
*11 November - Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany (d.2008).
*20 November - Raymond Lefèvre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer (d.2008).
*7 December - Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer (d.1985).

Full date unknown

*François Fontan, politician (d.1979).
*Francine Lancelot, dancer, choreographer and dance historian (d.2003).
*Christine Renard, writer (d.1979).

Deaths

January to June

*21 January - Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (b.1844).
*30 January - La Goulue, dancer (b.1866).
*19 February - Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (b.1842).
*15 March - Félix Balzer, physician (b.1849).
*20 March - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer (b.1851).
*22 April - Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron (b.1848).
*24 April - Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, socialist, journalist and feminist (b.1855).
*25 June - Charles-Victor Langlois, historian and paleographer (b.1863).

July to December

*10 August - Pierre Fatou, mathematician (b.1878).
*23 September - Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (b.1856).
*1 October - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b.1861).
*24 November - Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (b.1841).
*20 December - Émile Loubet, politician and 7th President of France (b.1838).

References