From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1932 in France
1932 in France
See also: 1931 in France, other events of 1932, 1933 in • 19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator (died
France. 1990).
France.
Events from the year 1932 in France • 24 October - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist and
the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991 (died
Events 2007).
• 27 October - Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor (died 2007).
• 1 May - Legislative Election held. • 30 October - Louis Malle, film director (died 1995).
• 6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul • 29 November - Jacques Chirac, former President of
Doumer in Paris. Doumer dies the next day. France.
• 8 May - Legislative Election held. • 1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer
• 10 May - Albert Lebrun becomes the new President player (died 2005).
of France. • 15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world
• 7 July - French submarine Prométhée sinks off champion (died 1964).
Cherbourg - 66 dead.
Full date unknown
Arts and literature • Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and
impresario (died 1984).
• 14 January - Maurice Ravel’s Concerto in G debuts with
• André Pascal, song-writer and composer (died 2001).
piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting
the Lamoureux Orchestra.
Deaths
Sport January to June
• 6 July - Tour de France begins.
• 7 January - André Maginot, politician, advocate of
• 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq.
the Maginot Line (born 1877).
• 16 February - Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist,
Births politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (born
1841).
January to June • 16 February - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer
and army general (born 1868).
• 31 January - Raymond Kaelbel, international soccer
• 7 March - Aristide Briand, statesman, Prime Minister
player (died 2007).
and Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1862).
• 6 February - François Truffaut, screenwriter, film
• 3 May - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and
director, producer and actor (died 1984).
father of Charles de Gaulle (born 1848).
• 18 February - Alphonse Halimi, boxer (died 2006).
• 7 May - Paul Doumer, President of France
• 19 February - Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director
(assassinated) (born 1857).
(died 1988).
• 22 February - Robert Opron, automotive designer.
• 24 February - Michel Legrand, composer, arranger,
July to December
conductor and pianist. • 5 July - René-Louis Baire, mathematician (born 1874).
• 7 April - Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar • 18 July - Jean Jules Jusserand, author and diplomat
Nazi cause (died 1993). (born 1855).
• 1 May - Charles Ducasse, soccer player (died 1983). • 20 July - René Bazin, novelist (born 1853).
• 21 May - Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist (died 2007). • 23 September - Jules Chéret, painter and
lithographer (born 1836).
July to December • 29 October - Rodolphe d’Erlanger, painter and
musicologist (born 1872).
• 1 July - Ze’ev Schiff, French-born Israeli military
journalist (died 2007).
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1932 in France
Full date unknown • Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic
thought (born 1847).
• Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist (born
1842).
• Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the References
cinématographe (born 1872).
• Émile Friant, painter (born 1863).
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