1935 in France

1934 in France, other events of 1935, 1936 in France.

Events from the year 1935 in France.

Events

• 4 January - Foreign Minister Pierre Laval went to Rome to meet Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
• 7 January - Franco–Italian Agreement is signed in Rome in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
• 14 April - Stresa Front agreement is concluded between France, Britain and Italy.
• 2 May - Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance is concluded.
• December - Hoare-Laval Pact signed with Great Britain.

Sport

• 4 July - Tour de France begins.
• 28 July - Tour de France ends, won by Romain Maes of Belgium

Births

• 2 February - Jean-Louis Verdier, mathematician (died 1989).
• 12 March - Jacques Benveniste, immunologist (died 2004).
• 15 June - Robert Lamartine, soccer player (died 1990).
• 21 June - Françoise Sagan, playwright, novelist and screenwriter (died 2004).
• 25 September - Adrien Douady, mathematician (died 2006).
• 8 November - Alain Delon, actor.

Deaths

• 12 February - Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer (born 1846).
• 17 May - Paul Dukas, composer and teacher (born 1865).
• 3 July - André Citroën, automobile pioneer (born 1878).
• 12 July - Alfred Dreyfus, military officer, victim in the Dreyfus Affair (born 1859).
• 30 August - Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist (born 1873).
• 4 October - Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist (born 1849).
• 4 December - Charles Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913 (born 1850).
• 13 December - Victor Grignard, chemist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (born 1871).

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