1934 in France

Incumbents

• President: Albert Lebrun
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 30 January: Camille Chautemps
• * 30 January-9 February: Édouard Daladier
• * 9 February-8 November: Gaston Doumergue
• * starting 8 November: Pierre-Étienne Flandin

  Events

• 6 February - an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues, finished in a riot and led to a political crisis.
• 9 February - Gaston Doumergue forms a new government.
• 9 October - King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister, Louis Barthou, are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles.
• 2 December - first public performance by the Quintette du Hot Club de France at the Ecole Normale de Musique, 78 rue Cardinet in Paris, as "Un orchestre d'un genre nouveau de Jazz Hot", led by Django Reinhardt.

  Sport

• 6 April - The French Rugby League was formed.
• 3 July - Tour de France begins.
• 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by Antonin Magne.

  Births

• 1 January - Asher Peres, French-born Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory
• 8 January - Jacques Anquetil, cyclist, five times Tour de France winner
• 25 January - Jean-Pierre Yvaral, artist
• 27 January – Édith Cresson, 89th Prime Minister of France
• 27 February - Vincent Fourcade, interior designer
• 2 March - Robert Batailly, politician
• 15 April - Solange Fernex, pacifist activist and politician
• 17 May - Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer
• 4 June - Pierre Eyt, Roman Catholic Cardinal
• 11 June - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, born Henri Laborde de Monpezat
• 6 July - Michel Crauste, rugby union player
• 9 July - Pierre Perret, singer and composer
• 17 July - Philippe Capdenat, composer
• 26 July - Jean Marie Balland, Roman Catholic Cardinal
• 21 August - Paul-André Meyer, mathematician
• 16 September - Paul-Louis Halley, billionaire businessman
• 28 September - Brigitte Bardot, actress and animal rights activist
• 5 October - Monique Papon, politician
• 26 October - Jacques Loussier, classical/jazz pianist

  Deaths

• 6 January - Fernand Lataste, zoologist
• 28 May - Eugenie Besserer, actress
• 15 June - Alfred Bruneau, composer
• 8 July - Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer
• 25 July - François Coty, perfume manufacturer
• 27 July - Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France
• 15 October - Raymond Poincaré, statesman, five times Prime Minister of France, President of France
• 2 November - Edmond James de Rothschild, philanthropist
• 12 November - Walther Bensemann, German-Jewish association football pioneer
• 17 November - Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, psychiatrist
• 4 December - Paul-Albert Besnard, painter