1943 in France

Incumbents

• Chief of State: Philippe Pétain
• Vice-President of the Council of Ministers: Pierre Laval

  Events

• 15 January - Fernand Grenier broadcasts on Radio Londres offering Communist support for Free France.
• 22 January - Round up of Marseille, organized by Nazi Germany, begins: French police carry out a raid in the Old Port to arrest Jews.
• 24 January - Round up of Marseille ends with 30,000 people expelled from their neighborhood and 2,000 Jews eventually sent to the extermination camps.
• 9 February - Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup: The Gestapo, directed by Klaus Barbie, arrest 86 Jews in Lyon.
• 21 May - Riom Trial ends, attempt by Vichy France regime to prove that the leaders of the French Third Republic had been responsible for France's defeat by Germany in 1940.
• 21 June - Resistance leaders Jean Moulin, Henri Aubry, Raymond Aubrac, Bruno Larat, André Lassagne, Colonel Albert Lacaze, Colonel :fr:Émile Schwarzfeld|Émile Schwarzfeld, René Hardy and Dr Frédéric Dugoujon are arrested at a meeting in Dugoujon's house in Caluire-et-Cuire, a suburb of Lyon, and sent to Montluc Prison in Lyon.
• 21 October - Lucie Aubrac and others in her Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment.
• 22 November - Lebanon gains independence from France.

  Sport

• 25 April - The 41st edition of the Paris-Roubaix bicycle race resumes following three years of cancellations due to war. Marcel Kint wins the race in 6h 01' 32".

  Births

• 11 February - Pierre Matignon, cyclist
• 20 February - Carlos, né Yvan-Chrysostome Dolto, singer, entertainer and actor
• 23 April - Hervé Villechaize, actor
• 22 May - Marie-Françoise Audollent, actress
• 6 June - Jean-Michel Bertrand, politician
• 15 June - Johnny Hallyday, né Jean-Philippe Smet, pop singer and actor
• 23 June - Patrick Bokanowski, filmmaker
• 30 August - Jean-Claude Killy, alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion
• 5 November - Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher
• 5 December - Eva Joly, magistrate, born in Norway
• Full date unknown - Jacques-Pierre Amette, journalist and writer

  Deaths

• 8 July - Jean Moulin, prefect and Resistance leader, died in custody
• 18 August - Maurice Couette, physicist
• 24 August - Simone Weil, philosopher and social activist
• 19 October - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist
• 10 December - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister
• Full date unknown
• *André Antoine, actor-manager
• *Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin