Events from the year 1930 in France.
Incumbents President: Gaston Doumergue President of the Council of Ministers: until 21 February: André Tardieu 21 February-2 March: Camille Chautemps 2 March-13 December: André Tardieu starting 13 December: Théodore Steeg
Events 10 February – Yen Bai mutiny takes place, an uprising by Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army's garrison in Yen Bai. 22 April – London Naval Treaty is agreed between United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States. 17 May – Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland. They depart by 30 June. 21 June – One-year conscription comes into force in France. 7 September – Marcel Cachin launches the first Fête de l'Humanité in Bezons 5 October – British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
Sport 2 July – Tour de France begins. 13 July – The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico. 27 July – Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq.
Births
January to June 1 January – Jean-Pierre Duprey, poet and sculptor (died 1959) 13 January – Françoise Prévost, actress (died 1997) 3 February – Roger Duchêne, biographer (died 2006) 20 February – Pierre Gabaye, composer (died 2000) 1 March – Pierre Max Dubois, composer (died 1995) 6 March – Lorin Maazel, conductor, violinist and composer (died 2014) 10 April – Claude Bolling, jazz pianist, composer and arranger (died 2020) 14 April – René Desmaison, mountaineer, climber and alpinist (died 2007) 29 April – Jean Rochefort, actor (died 2017) 30 April – Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher (died 1992) 25 May – Sonia Rykiel, fashion designer (died 2016) 9 June – Monique Serf, singer (died 1997) 24 June Pierre Restany, art critic and cultural philosopher (died 2003) Claude Chabrol, film director and cinema critic (died 2010)
July to December 15 July – Jacques Derrida, philosopher (died 2004) 23 July – Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian (died 2006) 1 August – Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist (died 2002) 17 August – Jean Bourlès, cyclist (died 2021) 24 September – Catherine Robbe-Grillet, actress, writer, photographer and dominatrix 1 October – Philippe Noiret, actor (died 2006) 5 October – Raymond Guiot, flautist and composer (died 2025) 10 October – Yves Chauvin, chemist, recipient of 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 2015) 18 October – Michel Drach, film director, writer, film producer and actor (died 1990) 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, painter and filmmaker (died 2002) 13 November Michel Robin, actor (died 2020) René-Samuel Sirat, rabbi (died 2023) 14 November – Pierre Bergé, entrepreneur (died 2017) 3 December – Jean-Luc Godard, film director (died 2022) 4 December – René Privat, cyclist (died 1995) 11 December – Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor (died 2022)
Full date unknown Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator (died 2000)
Deaths 19 March – Joseph Dupont, missionary and bishop (b. 1850) 24 October Paul Émile Appell, mathematician (born 1855) Eugène Gley, physiologist and endocrinologist (born 1857) 24 November – Prosper-René Blondlot, physicist (born 1849) 22 December – Marion Manville Pope, American author (born 1859)
See also List of French films of 1930
References