1934 in France
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Events from the year1934 in France.
Incumbents
[edit]- President:Albert Lebrun
- President of the Council of Ministers:
- until 30 January:Camille Chautemps
- 30 January-9 February:Édouard Daladier
- 9 February-8 November:Gaston Doumergue
- starting 8 November:Pierre-Étienne Flandin
Events
[edit]- 6 February –6 February 1934 crisis:an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised inParisbyfar-right leaguesfinishes in ariotand leads to the resignation ofÉdouard Daladier.
- 9 February –Gaston Doumergueforms a new government.
- 18 February –Orchestre nationalis founded by decree of theMinister of Posts, Telegraphs, and TelephonesJean Mistleras an ensemble of 80 musicians, withDésiré-Emile Inghelbrechtas musical director.[1]The orchestra plays its first concert on 13 March at theConservatoire de Paris.
- 9 October – KingAlexander of Yugoslaviaand French foreign ministerLouis Barthouare assassinated during the king's state visit inMarseilles.
- 2 December – first public performance by theQuintette du Hot Club de Franceat the Ecole Normale de Musique, 78 rue Cardinet in Paris, as "Un orchestre d'un genre nouveau de Jazz Hot", led byDjango Reinhardt.
Sport
[edit]- 6 April – The French Rugby League was formed.
- 3 July –Tour de Francebegins.
- 29 July – Tour de France ends, won byAntonin Magne.
Births
[edit]- 1 January –Asher Peres,French-bornIsraeliphysicist, considered a pioneer inquantum informationtheory (died 2005)
- 8 January –Jacques Anquetil,cyclist, five timesTour de Francewinner (died 1987)
- 14 January –Pierre Darmon,tennis player[2]
- 25 January –Jean-Pierre Yvaral,artist (died 2002)
- 27 January –Édith Cresson,Prime Minister of France[3]
- 11 February –Maryse Condé,novelist (died 2024)[4]
- 27 February –Vincent Fourcade,interior designer (died 1992)
- 2 March –Robert Batailly,politician (died 2017)
- 15 April –Solange Fernex,pacifist activist and politician (died 2006)
- 17 May –Pierre Clastres,anthropologistandethnographer(died 1977)
- 28 May –Jean Haudry,linguist (died 2023)
- 4 June –Pierre Eyt,Roman Catholiccardinal(died 2001)
- 11 June –Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark,born Henri Laborde de Monpezat (died 2018)
- 6 July –Michel Crauste,rugby union player (died 2019)
- 9 July –Pierre Perret,singer and composer
- 17 July –Philippe Capdenat,composer
- 18 July –Jean-Michel Sanejouand,painter and sculptor (died 2021)
- 26 July –Jean Marie Balland,Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1998)
- 21 August –Paul-André Meyer,mathematician (died 2003)
- 16 September –Paul-Louis Halley,billionaire businessman (died 2003)
- 28 September –Brigitte Bardot,actress and animal rights activist
- 5 October –Monique Papon,politician (died 2018)
- 26 October –Jacques Loussier,classical/jazz pianist (died 2019)
Deaths
[edit]- 6 January –Fernand Lataste,zoologist (born 1847)
- 14 January –Paul Marie Eugène Vieille,chemist and gunsmith (born 1854)
- 19 February –Ellen Richards Ridgway,American golfer (born 1866)[5]
- 28 May –Eugenie Besserer,actress (born 1868)
- 15 June –Alfred Bruneau,composer (born 1857)
- 4 July –Marie Curie,physicist (born 1867)
- 8 July –Benjamin Baillaud,astronomer (born 1848)
- 25 July –François Coty,perfume manufacturer (born 1874)
- 27 July –Hubert Lyautey,Marshal of France(born 1854)
- 15 October –Raymond Poincaré,statesman, five timesPrime Minister of France,President of France(born 1860)
- 2 November –Edmond James de Rothschild,philanthropist (born 1845)
- 12 November –Walther Bensemann,German-Jewish association football pioneer (born 1873)
- 17 November –Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault,psychiatrist(born 1872)
- 4 December –Paul-Albert Besnard,painter(born 1849)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Paris, Alain."Orchestre National de France".Encyclopædia Universalis.
- ^Joseph Siegman (2020).Jewish Sports Legends; The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
- ^"Edith Cresson".Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers.27 February 2020.Retrieved27 July2021.
- ^Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean 'grand storyteller' dies aged 90
- ^"Olympedia – Ellen Ridgway".olympedia.org.Retrieved20 July2021.