See also: 1933 in France, other events of 1934, 1935 in France.

Events from the year 1934 in France.

Events

• 6 February - an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues, finished in a riot and led to a political crisis.
• 9 February - Gaston Doumergue forms a new government.
• 9 October - King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister, Louis Barthou, are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles.

Sport

• 3 July - Tour de France begins.
• 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by Antonin Magne.

Births

• 1 January - Asher Peres, French-born Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory (died 2005).
• 8 January - Jacques Anquetil, cyclist, five times Tour de France winner (died 1987).
• 27 February - Vincent Fourcade, interior designer (died 1992).
• 15 April - Solange Fernex, pacifist activist and politician (died 2006).
• 4 June - Pierre Eyt, Cardinal (died 2001).
• 26 July - Jean Marie Balland, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1998).
• 21 August - Paul-Andr Meyer, mathematician (died 2003).
• 28 September - Brigitte Bardot, actress and animal rights activist.

Full date unknown

• Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (died 1977).
• Paul-Louis Halley, billionaire businessman (died 2003).
• Jean-Pierre Yvaral, artist (died 2002).

Deaths

• 28 May - Eugenie Besserer, actress (born 1868).
• 15 June - Alfred Bruneau, composer (born 1857).
• 8 July - Benjamin Baillaud, astronomer (born 1848).
• 25 July - Fran ois Coty, perfume manufacturer (born 1874).
• 27 July - Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (born 1854).
• 15 October - Raymond Poincar , statesman, five times Prime 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 - Ga tan Gatian de Cl rambault, psychiatrist (born 1872).
• 4 December - Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (born 1849).

Full date unknown

• Fernand Lataste, zoologist (born 1847).

References

fr:1934 en France