1936 in France

Incumbents

• President: Albert Lebrun
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 24 January: Pierre Laval
• * 24 January-4 June: Albert Sarraut
• * starting 4 June: Léon Blum

  Events

• 25 March - Second London Naval Treaty is signed by the governments of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
• 26 April - Legislative Election held.
• 3 May - Legislative Election held, resulting in the election of the Popular Front.
• 26 May - A general strike is initiated in Le Havre.
• 7 June - Matignon Agreements are signed between the Confédération générale de la production française employers association, the CGT trade union and the French state during a general strike initiated after the election of the Popular Front.

  Sport

• 7 July - Tour de France begins.
• 2 August - Tour de France ends, won by Sylvère Maes of Belgium.

  Births

• 15 February - Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, film director
• 23 February - Roger Rivière, cyclist
• 12 April - Jean-Claude Vrinat, restaurateur
• 1 March - Jean-Edern Hallier, author
• 7 March - Georges Perec, novelist, filmmaker and essayist
• 1 May - Danièle Huillet, filmmaker
• 20 June - Jean-Daniel Pollet, film director and screenwriter
• 1 August - Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer
• 4 August - Claude Ballot-Léna, motor racing driver
• 12 October - Pascale Audret, actress
• 28 December - Jacques Mesrine, gangster

  Deaths

• 7 January - Guy d'Hardelot, composer, pianist and teacher
• 5 February - Charles le Bargy, actor and film director
• 28 February - Charles Nicolle, bacteriologist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• 16 March - Marguerite Durand, actress, journalist and suffragette
• 23 May - Henri de Régnier, poet
• 15 July - Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal
• 1 August - Louis Blériot, inventor, engineer and aviation pioneer
• 23 August - Juliette Adam, writer
• 17 October - Suzanne Bianchetti, actress

  Full date unknown

• Georges Garnier, soccer player