1932 in France
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Events from the year 1932 in France.
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[edit] 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 Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead.
[edit] Arts and Literature
- 14 January - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.
[edit] Sport
- 6 July - Tour de France begins.
- 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq.
[edit] Births
- 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).
- 22 February - Robert Opron, automotive designer.
- 24 February - Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist.
- 21 May - Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist (d.2007).
- 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).
- 29 November - Jacques Chirac, former President of France.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- 7 January - André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line (b.1877).
- 16 February - Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (b.1841).
- 16 February - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (b.1868).
- 7 March - Aristide Briand, statesman, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b.1862).
- 3 May - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle (b.1848).
- 7 May - Paul Doumer, President of France (assassinated) (b.1857).
[edit] July to December
- 5 July - René-Louis Baire, mathematician (b.1874).
- 18 July - Jean Jules Jusserand, author and diplomat (b.1855).
- 20 July - René Bazin, novelist (b.1853).
- 23 September - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer (b.1836).
- 29 October - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (b.1872).
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- Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist (b.1842).
- Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the cinématographe (b.1872).
- Émile Friant, painter (b.1863).
- Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (b.1847).
