1931 in France

See also: 1930 in France, other events of 1931, 1932 in France.

Events from the year 1931 in France.

Contents

1 Events
2 Arts and literature
3 Sport
4 Births
5 Deaths
- 5.1 Full date unknown
6 References

Events

27 January - Pierre Laval forms a government in France.
27 March - British writer Arnold Bennett dies in Paris when he drinks local water to prove it is safe to drink - but is poisoned.
6 May - Paris Colonial Exposition opens.
13 May - Paul Doumer elected president of France.
14 June - Overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île 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.

Arts and literature

The Persistence of Memory is put on display for the first time in Paris at the Galerie Pierre Colle.

Sport

30 June - Tour de France begins.
26 July - Tour de France ends, won by Antonin Magne.

Births

January to June

26 February - Jacques Rouxel, animator (d.2004).
6 March - Nicolas Barone, cyclist (d.2003).
3 June - Jean Bouise, actor (d.1989).
5 June - Jacques Demy, film director (d.1990).

July to December

1 July - Leslie Caron, actress.
4 July - Sébastien Japrisot, author, screenwriter and film director (d.2003).
24 July - Éric Tabarly, sailor (d.1998).
23 August - Coccinelle, transsexual actress and entertainer (d.2006).
25 October - Annie Girardot, actress (d. 2011)
6 November - André Trochut, cyclist (d.1996).
28 December - Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (d.1994).

Full date unknown

Serge Danot, animator (d.1990).
Christian Metz, film theorist (d.1993).

Deaths

1 February - Emmanuel d'Orléans, noble from the House of Orléans (b.1872).
22 June - Armand Fallières, politician and President of France (b.1841).
7 November - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (b.1846).
2 December - Vincent d'Indy, composer (b.1851).

Full date unknown

Alexandre Darracq, automobile manufacturer (b.1855).

References