1932 in France

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Events from the year 1932 in France.

Incumbents

1 May - Legislative Election held.
6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul Doumer in Paris. Doumer dies the next day.
8 May - Legislative Election held.
10 May - Albert Lebrun becomes the new President of France.
7 July - French submarine Prométhée sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead.^[1]
Aperitif Ricard first produced by Paul Ricard in Marseille.

14 January - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.

31 January – Raymond Kaelbel, international soccer player (d. 2007)
6 February – François Truffaut, screenwriter, film director, producer and actor (d. 1984)
18 February – Alphonse Halimi, boxer (d. 2006)
19 February – Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director (d. 1988)
22 February – Robert Opron, automotive designer (d. 2021)
24 February – Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist (d. 2019)
18 March – Denise Cacheux, politician (d. 2023)
30 March – Ted Morgan, French-born biographer and journalist
4 April – Pierre Lacotte, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2023)
7 April – Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause (d. 1993)
8 April – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, film director and screenwriter
12 April – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d. 2019)
16 April – Pierre Milza, French historian (d. 2018)
26 April – Francis Lai, French composer (d. 2018)
27 April – Anouk Aimée, born (Nicole) Françoise Dreyfus, film actress (d. 2024)
1 May – Charles Ducasse, soccer player (d. 1983)
17 May – Archiguille, painter (d. 2017)
21 May – Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist (d. 2007)

1 July- Ze'ev Schiff, French-born Israeli military journalist (d. 2007)
21 July - Marie-Claire Bancquart, poet and critic (d. 2019)
22 July – Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player (d. 2017)
17 August – Jean-Jacques Sempé, cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) (d. 2022)
18 August – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2022)
19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator (d. 1990)
25 August - Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and impresario (d. 1984)
18 September – Jean-Michel Defaye, musician (d. 2025)
1 October – Manuel Busto, French racing cyclist (d. 2017)
13 October – Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d. 2018)
24 October - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991 (d. 2007)
27 October - Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor (d. 2007)^[3]
30 October - Louis Malle, film director (d. 1995)
3 November – Guillaume Bieganski, French footballer (d. 2016)
8 November – Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018)
9 November – Serge Roy, French footballer (d. 2025)
20 November – André Soltner, chef and food writer (d. 2025)
29 November - Jacques Chirac, President of France (d. 2019)
1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player (d. 2005)
2 December - Michel Guerry, politician
15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world champion (d. 1964)
21 December - Jean-Jacques Guyon, equestrian (d. 2017)

7 January - André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line (born 1877)
February - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought (born 1847)
16 February
- Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (born 1841)
- Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general (born 1868)
28 February - Guillaume Bigourdan, astronomer (born 1851)
7 March - Aristide Briand, statesman, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1862)
3 May - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle (born 1848)
24 March – Frantz Reichel, Olympic gold medalist in rugby (born 1871)^[4]
7 May - Paul Doumer, President of France (assassinated) (born 1857)
9 June - Émile Friant, painter (born 1863)
29 June - Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist (born 1842)

5 July - René-Louis Baire, mathematician (born 1874)
18 July - Jean Jules Jusserand, author and diplomat (born 1855)
20 July - René Bazin, novelist (born 1853)
23 September - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer (born 1836)
24 September – Rose Combe, writer and railway worker (born 1883)^[5]
15 October - Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, and feminist (born 1846)
29 October - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (born 1872)

^ "La catastrophe du sous-marin Prométhée vue de Bretagne". enenvor.fr. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
^ a b Cossins, Peter (2013). Le Tour 100: The definitive history of the world's greatest race. Octopus. p. 248. ISBN 9781844037599.
^ "Jean-Pierre Cassel | French actor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
^ Mallon, Bill (2009). The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. McFarland. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-7864-8952-7.
^ Dupuy, Aimé (1951). "Rose Combe, garde-barrière et romancière". La Vie du Rail (in French): 2.