1929 in France

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 29 July: Raymond Poincaré
• * 29 July-2 November: Aristide Briand
• * starting 2 November: André Tardieu

  Events

• 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.
• 5 September - Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.
• 22 October - Briand's government falls.

  Arts and literature

• 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.

  Sport

• 30 June - Tour de France begins.
• 28 July - Tour de France ends, won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium.

  Births

January to June

• 20 January
• *Prince Antoine of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
• *Jean-Jacques Perrey, electronic music producer
• 5 February - Luc Ferrari, composer
• 6 February - Pierre Brice, actor
• 7 February - François Fontan, politician
• 8 February - Claude Rich, actor and screenwriter
• 10 February - Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist
• 19 February - Jacques Deray, film director
• 7 April - Bob Denard, mercenary
• 8 April - François Bruhat, mathematician
• 23 April - George Steiner, literary critic and philosopher
• 1 May - Valentin Huot, racing cyclist
• 31 May - Joseph Bernardo, Olympic swimmer
• 27 June - Maurice Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham

  July to December

• 13 July - René Laloux, animator and film director
• 15 July - Alain Porthault, French former sprinter
• 16 July - Gaby Tanguy, French former swimmer
• 29 July - Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist
• 9 September - Claude Nougaro, singer and songwriter
• 21 September - Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist
• 19 October – Henri Cueco, painter
• 23 October – Josy Moinet, politician
• 11 November - Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany
• 20 November - Raymond Lefèvre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer
• 7 December - Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer

  Full date unknown

• Christine Renard, writer

  Deaths

January to June

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

  July to December

• 10 August - Pierre Fatou, mathematician
• 23 September - Louis-Ernest Dubois, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris
• 1 October - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
• 24 November - Georges Clemenceau, statesman, physician, journalist and Prime Minister
• 20 December - Émile Loubet, politician and 7th President of France