1934 in France

"See also:"
1933 in France,
other events of 1934,
1935 in France.

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Events from the year 1934 in France.

Events

*6 February - an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues, finished in a riot and led to a political crisis.
*9 February - Gaston Doumergue forms a new government.
*9 October - King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister, Louis Barthou, are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles.

port

*3 July - Tour de France begins.
*29 July - Tour de France ends, won by Antonin Magne.

Births

*8 January - Jacques Anquetil, cyclist, five times Tour de France winner (d.1987).
*27 February - Vincent Fourcade, interior designer (d.1992).
*15 April - Solange Fernex, pacifist activist and politician (d.2006).
*4 June - Pierre Eyt, Cardinal (d.2001).
*26 July - Jean Marie Balland, Roman Catholic Cardinal (d.1998).
*21 August - Paul-André Meyer, mathematician (d.2003).
*28 September - Brigitte Bardot, actress and animal rights activist.

Full date unknown

*Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (d.1977).
*Paul-Louis Halley, billionaire businessman (d.2003).
*Jean-Pierre Yvaral, artist (d.2002).

Deaths

*28 May - Eugenie Besserer, actress (b.1868).
*15 June - Alfred Bruneau, composer (b.1857).
*8 July - Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer (b.1848).
*25 July - François Coty, perfume manufacturer (b.1874).
*27 July - Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (b.1854).
*15 October - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France (b.1860).
*2 November - Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist (b.1845).
*17 November - Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, psychiatrist (b.1872).
*4 December - Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (b.1849).

Full date unknown

*Fernand Lataste, zoologist (b.1847).

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