1931 in France

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue, Paul Doumer
• President of the Council of Ministers: Theodore Steeg, Pierre Laval

  Events

• 27 January - Pierre Laval forms a government in France.
• 6 May - Paris Colonial Exposition opens.
• 13 May - Paul Doumer elected president of France.
• 14 June - Overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the river Loire and over 450 drown.
• 8 November- French police launch a large scale raid against Corsican bandits.

  Births

January to June

• 7 February - Serge Danot, animator
• 26 February - Jacques Rouxel, animator
• 6 March - Nicolas Barone, cyclist
• 3 June - Jean Bouise, actor
• 5 June - Jacques Demy, film director
• 30 June - Joseph Thomin, racing cyclist

  July to December

• 1 July - Leslie Caron, actress
• 3 July - Claude-Henri Chouard, surgeon
• 4 July - Sébastien Japrisot, author, screenwriter and film director
• 6 July - Louis Mexandeau, politician
• 24 July - Éric Tabarly, sailor
• 23 August - Coccinelle, transsexual actress and entertainer
• 13 October - Raymond Kopa, footballer
• 25 October - Annie Girardot, actress
• 6 November - André Trochut, cyclist
• 12 December - Christian Metz, film theorist
• 18 December - André S. Labarthe, French actor
• 28 December - Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker

  Deaths

• 1 February - Emmanuel d'Orléans, noble from the House of Orléans
• 31 March - Henri Béraldi, bibliophile and publisher
• 7 May - Anne Boutiaut Poulard, cook
• 22 June - Armand Fallières, politician and President of France
• 11 July - Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist artist
• 7 November - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst
• 2 December - Vincent d'Indy, composer
• Full date unknown - Alexandre Darracq, automobile manufacturer

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