Events from the year 1925 in France.
Incumbents President: Gaston Doumergue President of the Council of Ministers: until 17 April: Édouard Herriot 17 April-28 November: Paul Painlevé starting 28 November: Aristide Briand
Events 21 May – 25 October International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble. 25 August – Occupation of the Ruhr ends with the evacuation of the last French troops. Cookware manufacturer Le Creuset established in Fresnoy-le-Grand. Ybry, a French luxury perfume and fashion house is founded.
Sport 21 June – Tour de France begins. 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy.
Births
January to March 1 January – Raymond Pellegrin, actor (died 2007) 6 January – Joseph-André Motte, furniture designer (died 2013) 7 January – Pierre Gripari, writer (died 1990) 18 January – Gilles Deleuze, philosopher (died 1995) 2 February – Marcela Delpastre, author (died 1998) 13 February – René Pleimelding, soccer player (died 1998) 16 February – François-Xavier Ortoli, politician, businessman, Minister and President of the European Commission (died 2007) 4 March – Paul Mauriat, musical director (died 2006) 12 March Louison Bobet, cyclist, three times Tour de France winner (died 1983) Georges Delerue, film composer (died 1992) 21 March – Max Varnel, film and television director (died 1996) 26 March – Pierre Boulez, composer and conductor (died 2016)
April to June 10 April – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (died 1994) 27 April – François Châtelet, historian of philosophy (died 1985) 30 April – Corinne Calvet, actress (died 2001) 3 May – Jean Séguy, sociologist of religions (died 2007) 17 May Michel de Certeau, Jesuit and scholar (died 1986) Claude Julien, journalist and editor (died 2005) 25 May – Claude Pinoteau, film director and scriptwriter (died 2012) 27 May – Jean-Paul Aron, writer and journalist (died 1988) 8 June – Claude Estier, politician and journalist (died 2016) 14 June – Jean-Louis Rosier, racing driver (died 2011) 25 June – Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, lawyer and politician (died 2019) 26 June – Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman (died 2021)
July to September 3 July – Roger Chesneau, steeplechaser (died 2012) 8 July Jean Cau, writer and journalist (died 1993) Dominique Nohain, actor, dramatist and director (died 2017) 14 July – Gaston Rousseau, racing cyclist (died 2019) 19 July Henri Beaujean, politician (died 2021) Jean-Pierre Faye, philosopher, poet and writer (died 2026) 20 July Jacques Delors, European politician (died 2023) Frantz Fanon, Martinique-born psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1961) 6 August Lilyan Chauvin, actress and writer (died 2008) Guy Degrenne, businessman (died 2006) 21 August – Maurice Pialat, film director, screenwriter and actor (died 2003) 26 August – Alain Peyrefitte, scholar and politician (died 1999) 27 August – Darry Cowl, actor and musician (died 2006) 30 August – Laurent de Brunhoff, author and illustrator (died 2024)
October to December 3 October – Simone Segouin, Resistance fighter (died 2023) 13 October – Armand Mouyal, epee fencer (died 1988) 31 October - Roger Nimier, novelist (died 1962) Franck Ténot, press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic (died 2004) 24 November – André Lévy, sinologist (died 2017) 27 November – Claude Lanzmann, documentary filmmaker and philosopher (died 2018) 2 December – Jacques Lacarrière, writer, critic, journalist, and essayist (died 2005) 5 December – Henri Oreiller, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist (died 1962) 7 December – Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian Formula One driver (died 2026) 23 December – Pierre Bérégovoy, politician and Prime Minister (died 1993) 26 December – Claude Meillassoux, economic anthropologist and Africanist (died 2005)
Full date unknown Roger Giroux, poet (died 1974) Claude Tresmontant, philosopher, hellenist and theologian (died 1997)
Deaths
January to June 29 January – Charles-Eusèbe Dionne, naturalist and taxidermist (born 1846) 10 February – Aristide Bruant, singer, comedian and nightclub owner (born 1851) 14 February – Jacques Rivière, man of letters (born 1886; typhoid) 25 February – Louis Feuillade, film director (born 1873) 4 March – Roger de Barbarin, trap shooter (born 1860) 5 March Clément Ader, engineer and aviation pioneer (born 1841) Michel Verne, writer (born 1861) 19 March – Firmin Bouisset, poster artist (born 1859) 22 April – André Caplet, composer and conductor (born 1878) 3 May – Louis Delaporte, explorer and artist (born 1842) 12 May Léonce Bénédite, art historian and curator (born 1856) Charles Mangin, general during World War I (born 1866) 1 June – Lucien Guitry, actor (born 1860) 6 June – Pierre Louÿs, poet (born 1870) 13 June – Paul Teste, aviator (born 1892; air crash)
July to December 1 July – Erik Satie, composer and pianist (born 1866) 5 August – Georges Palante, philosopher and sociologist (born 1862) 12 August – Leon Dehon, clergyman (born 1843) 7 September – René Viviani, politician, Prime Minister (born 1863) 29 September – Léon Bourgeois, politician, Prime Minister, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1920 (born 1851) 31 October – Max Linder, actor (born 1883) 11 November – Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, poet, writer and pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry (born 1843) 21 December – Jules Méline, statesman, Prime Minister (born 1838) 22 December – Joseph Ravaisou, landscape painter (born 1865) 26 December – Jules Patenotre des Noyers, diplomat (born 1845) 27 December – Marie-Louise Jaÿ, businesswoman (born 1838)
See also List of French films of 1925
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