1938 in France

See also: 1937 in France, other events of 1938, 1939 in France.

Events from the year 1938 in France.

Events

• 10 April - Édouard Daladier becomes prime minister of France.
• 30 September - Munich Agreement is signed by Germany, France, Britain, and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.

Sport

• 4 June - 1938 FIFA World Cup begins, hosted by France.
• 19 June - World Cup ends, won by Italy.
• 5 July - Tour de France begins.
• 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by Gino Bartali of Italy.

Births

• 7 January - Roland Topor, illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d.1997).
• 18 February - Louis-Marie Billé, cardinal (d.2002).
• 2 July - Marcel Artelesa, international soccer player.
• 9 August - Michèle Girardon, actress (d.1975).
• 20 August - Alain Vivien, politician.
• 3 September - Liliane Ackermann, community leader, writer, and lecturer (d.2007).
• 10 November - Claude Serre, cartoonist (d.1998).
• 30 November - Jean Eustache, filmmaker (d.1981).

Full date unknown

• Michel Pêcheux, philosopher (d.1983).

Deaths

• 20 January - Émile Cohl, caricaturist, cartoonist and animator (b.1857).
• 21 January - Georges Méliès, filmmaker (b.1861).
• 13 May - Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (b.1861).
• 4 July - Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player (b.1899).

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