1932 in France

Events from the year 1932 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Paul Doumer (until 7 May), Albert Lebrun (starting 10 May)
 * President of the Council of Ministers:
 * until 20 February: Pierre Laval
 * 20 February-3 June: Édouard Daladier
 * 3 June-26 November: Édouard Herriot
 * starting 26 November: Joseph Paul-Boncour

Events

 * 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.
 * Aperitif Ricard first produced by Paul Ricard in Marseille.

Arts and literature

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

Sport

 * 6 July - Tour de France begins.
 * 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq.

January to June

 * 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)
 * 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 diector 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)

July to December

 * 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)
 * 24 September – Rose Combe, writer and railway worker (born 1883)
 * 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)
 * 30 October - Louis Malle, film director (d. 1995)
 * 8 November – Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018)
 * 29 November - Jacques Chirac, President of France (d. 2019)
 * 1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player (d. 2005)
 * 15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world champion (d. 1964)

Full date unknown

 * André Pascal, songwriter and composer (d. 2001)

January to June

 * 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)
 * 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)

July to December

 * 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)
 * 15 October - Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, and feminist (born 1846)
 * 29 October - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist (born 1872)

Full date unknown

 * Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the cinématographe (born 1872)