1926 in France

Events from the year 1926 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Gaston Doumergue
 * President of the Council of Ministers:
 * until 20 July: Aristide Briand
 * 20 July-23 July: Édouard Herriot
 * starting 23 July: Raymond Poincaré

Events

 * 9 May – French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots.
 * 15 July – Grand Mosque of Paris inaugurated.
 * 24 November – The village of Rocquebillier on the Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.
 * The Guide Michelin first awards stars to restaurants.

Arts and literature

 * Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts institutes the Prix Puvis de Chavannes, named after co-founder and first president, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.

Sport

 * 20 June – Tour de France begins.
 * 18 July – Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Buysse of Belgium.

January to June

 * 17 January – Robert Filliou, artist (died 1987)
 * 2 February – Philippe Chatrier, tennis player (died 2000)
 * 7 February – Pierre Villette, composer (died 1998)
 * 11 February – Paul Bocuse, chef (died 2018)
 * 19 February – Pierre Guénin, journalist, gay rights activist (died 2017)
 * 1 March – Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer (died 2022)
 * 19 March – Henri René Guieu, science fiction writer (died 2000)
 * 13 April – André Testut, motor racing driver (died 2005)
 * 8 May – Pierre Broué, historian and Trotskyist (died 2005)
 * 5 June – Claude Berge, mathematician (died 2002)
 * 12 June – Jean-Pierre Munch, cyclist (died 1996)
 * 26 June – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (died 1994)

July to December

 * 6 July – Serge Roullet, film director and screenwriter (died 2023)
 * 10 August – Michel Breitman, writer and translator (died 2009)
 * 14 August – René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist (died 1977)
 * 16 August – Roger Agache, archaeologist (died 2011)
 * 17 August
 * Maurice Lusien, swimmer (died 2017)
 * Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter (died 1992)
 * 15 September – Jean-Pierre Serre, mathematician
 * 17 September – Jean-Marie Lustiger, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris and cardinal (died 2007)
 * 15 October – Michel Foucault, philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist (died 1984)
 * 1 November – James Marson, politician (died 2017)
 * 3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, painter (died 2005)
 * 9 November – Raymond Hains, artist and photographer (died 2005)
 * 21 December – Georges Boudarel, academic and Communist militant (died 2003)

Deaths

 * 14 January – René Boylesve, author (born 1867)
 * 28 February – Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, astronomer (born 1842)
 * 26 March – Georges Aaron Bénédite, Egyptologist (born 1857)
 * 2 July – Émile Coué, psychologist and pharmacist (born 1857)
 * 21 September – Léon Charles Thévenin, telegraph engineer (born 1857)
 * 5 December – Claude Monet, painter (born 1840)

Date unknown

 * Jean-Camille Formigé, architect (born 1845)