2 February - TheParis Film Congress opens. It is an attempt to form a cartel of leading European producers similar to that of theMPPC in the United States
30 July – Société Française de teintures inoffersires, as predecessor ofL'Oréal was founded.[citation needed]
22 September - Three of theChauffeurs de la Drome are executed by guillotine inValence, Drôme in south-west France. They were a gang responsible for a three-year campaign of theft, torture and murder in the department ofDrôme.