1929 in France

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Events from the year 1929 in France.

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24 July – Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons – he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
24 July – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on 27 August 1928 by most leading world powers).
5 September – Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.
22 October – Briand's government falls.

15 January – First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in by Armand Colin.
October
- Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met for the first time while he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. 21-year-old De Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre.
- La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition including Yves Tanguy.^[1]

20 January
- Jean-Jacques Perrey, electronic music producer (died 2016)
5 February – Luc Ferrari, composer (died 2005)
6 February – Pierre Brice, actor (died 2015)
7 February – François Fontan, politician (died 1979)
8 February – Claude Rich, actor and screenwriter (died 2017)
10 February – Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist (died 2006)
19 February – Jacques Deray, film director (died 2003)
7 April – Bob Denard, mercenary (died 2007)
8 April – François Bruhat, mathematician (died 2007)
23 April – George Steiner, literary critic and philosopher (died 2020)
1 May – Valentin Huot, racing cyclist (died 2017)^[2]
31 May – Joseph Bernardo, Olympic swimmer^[3] (died 2023)
27 June – Maurice Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (died 2007)

6 July – Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, historian (died 2023)
13 July – René Laloux, animator and film director (died 2004)
15 July – Alain Porthault, sprinter (died 2019)
16 July – Gaby Tanguy, swimmer (died 1981)
29 July – Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist (died 2007)
9 September – Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter (died 2004)
21 September – Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist (died 2005)
19 October – Henri Cueco, painter (died 2017)
23 October – Josy Moinet, politician (died 2018)
11 November – Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany (died 2008)
20 November – Raymond Lefèvre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer (died 2008)
7 December – Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer (died 1985)

21 January – Étienne Aymonier, linguist, explorer and archaeologist (born 1844)
30 January – La Goulue, dancer (born 1866)
19 February – Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, mathematician and physicist (born 1842)
15 March – Félix Balzer, physician (born 1849)
20 March – Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, military theorist and writer (born 1851)
22 April – Henry Lerolle, painter, art collector and patron (born 1848)
24 April – Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, socialist, journalist and feminist (born 1855)
25 June – Charles-Victor Langlois, historian and paleographer (born 1863)

10 August – Pierre Fatou, mathematician (born 1878)
23 September – Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Paris (born 1856)
1 October – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (born 1861)
24 November – Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister (born 1841)
20 December – Émile Loubet, politician and 7th President of France (born 1838)
21 December – Gustave Belot, professor and philosopher (born 1859)

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^ "Dordogne : disparition de l'ancien cycliste périgourdin Valentin Huot". 21 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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