Events from the year 1935 in France.

Incumbents President: Albert Lebrun President of the Council of Ministers: until 1 June: Pierre-Étienne Flandin 1 June-7 June: Fernand Bouisson starting 7 June: Pierre Laval

Events January – Foreign Minister Pierre Laval went to Rome to meet Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. 7 January – Franco-Italian Agreement is signed in Rome in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims. 14 April – Stresa Front agreement is concluded between France, Britain and Italy. 2 May – Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance is concluded. December – Hoare–Laval Pact signed with Great Britain.

Sport 4 July – Tour de France begins. 28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Romain Maes of Belgium

Births

2 February – Jean-Louis Verdier, mathematician (died 1989) 12 March Jacques Benveniste, immunologist (died 2004) Paul John Marx, French-Papua Roman Catholic prelate (died 2018) 5 May – Bernard Pivot, journalist and television personality (died 2024) 7 May – Gérard Lefranc, fencer (died 2025) 1 June – Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, mathematician (died 2017). 15 June – Robert Lamartine, soccer player (died 1990) 21 June – Françoise Sagan, playwright, novelist and screenwriter (died 2004) 24 August – Christian Liger, French writer (died 2002) 18 September – Raymond Vautherin, French-Italian linguist, poet and playwright (died 2018) 25 September – Adrien Douady, mathematician (died 2006) 8 October – Albert Roux, chef (died 2021) 8 November – Alain Delon, actor (died 2024) 9 November – Claude Kahn, pianist (died 2023) 18 November – Alain Barrière, singer (died 2019)

Deaths 12 February – Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer (born 1846) 17 May – Paul Dukas, composer and teacher (born 1865) 3 July – André Citroën, automobile pioneer (born 1878) 12 July – Alfred Dreyfus, military officer, victim in the Dreyfus Affair (born 1859) 30 August – Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist (born 1873) 4 October – Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist (born 1849) 4 December – Charles Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913 (born 1850) 13 December – Victor Grignard, chemist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (born 1871)

See also List of French films of 1935

References