1934 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.

1 January - Asher Peres, French-born Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory (died 2005).
8 January - Jacques Anquetil, cyclist, five times Tour de France winner (died 1987).
25 January - Jean-Pierre Yvaral, artist (died 2002).
27 February - Vincent Fourcade, interior designer (died 1992).
15 April - Solange Fernex, pacifist activist and politician (died 2006).
17 May - Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (died 1977).
4 June - Pierre Eyt, Cardinal (died 2001).
26 July - Jean Marie Balland, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1998).
21 August - Paul-André Meyer, mathematician (died 2003).
16 September - Paul-Louis Halley, billionaire businessman (died 2003).
28 September - Brigitte Bardot, actress and animal rights activist.

28 May - Eugenie Besserer, actress (born 1868).
15 June - Alfred Bruneau, composer (born 1857).
8 July - Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer (born 1848).
25 July - François Coty, perfume manufacturer (born 1874).
27 July - Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (born 1854).
15 October - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France (born 1860).
2 November - Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist (born 1845).
12 November — Walther Bensemann, German-Jewish association football pioneer (born 1873)
17 November - Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, psychiatrist (born 1872).
4 December - Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (born 1849).

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