← 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1930 in France → 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1930 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year1930 in France.

• President:Gaston Doumergue
• President of the Council of Ministers:
  • until 21 February:André Tardieu
  • 21 February-2 March:Camille Chautemps
  • 2 March-13 December:André Tardieu
  • starting 13 December:Théodore Steeg

• 10 February –Yen Bai mutiny takes place, anuprising by Vietnamese soldiers in the Frenchcolonial army's garrison inYen Bai.
• 22 April –London Naval Treaty is agreed between United Kingdom, Japan, France,Italy and the United States.
• 17 May – Prime MinisterAndré Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from theRhineland. They depart by 30 June.
• 21 June – One-yearconscription comes into force in France.
• 5 October – BritishAirship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.

• 2 July –Tour de France begins.
• 13 July – The firstFootball World Cup starts:Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, forFrance againstMexico.
• 27 July – Tour de France ends, won byAndré Leducq.

• 1 January –Jean-Pierre Duprey, poet and sculptor (died 1959)
• 13 January –Françoise Prévost, actress (died 1997)
• 3 February –Roger Duchêne, biographer (died 2006)
• 20 February –Pierre Gabaye, composer (died 2000)
• 1 March –Pierre Max Dubois, composer (died 1995)
• 6 March –Lorin Maazel, conductor, violinist and composer (died 2014)
• 10 April –Claude Bolling, jazz pianist, composer and arranger (died 2020)
• 14 April –René Desmaison,mountaineer,climber andalpinist (died 2007)
• 29 April –Jean Rochefort, actor (died 2017)
• 30 April –Félix Guattari,militant, institutionalpsychotherapist andphilosopher (died 1992)
• 25 May –Sonia Rykiel, fashion designer (died 2016)
• 9 June –Monique Serf, singer (died 1997)
• 24 June
  • Pierre Restany,art critic and culturalphilosopher (died 2003)
  • Claude Chabrol, film director and cinema critic (died 2010)

• 15 July –Jacques Derrida, philosopher (died 2004)
• 23 July –Pierre Vidal-Naquet,historian (died 2006)
• 1 August –Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist (died 2002)
• 17 August –Jean Bourlès, cyclist (died 2021)
• 24 September –Catherine Robbe-Grillet, actress, writer, photographer and dominatrix
• 1 October –Philippe Noiret,actor (died 2006)
• 10 October –Yves Chauvin, chemist, recipient of 2005Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 2015)
• 18 October –Michel Drach,film director,writer,film producer and actor (died 1990)
• 29 October –Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, painter and filmmaker (died 2002)
• 13 November
  • Michel Robin, actor (died 2020)
  • René-Samuel Sirat, rabbi (died 2023)
• 14 November –Pierre Bergé, entrepreneur (died 2017)
• 3 December –Jean-Luc Godard, film director (died 2022)
• 4 December –René Privat, cyclist (died 1995)
• 11 December –Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor (died 2022)

• Gérard Granel,philosopher andtranslator (died 2000)

• 19 March –Joseph Dupont, missionary and bishop (b.1850)
• 24 October
  • Paul Émile Appell, mathematician (born 1855)
  • Eugène Gley,physiologist andendocrinologist (born 1857)
• 24 November –Prosper-René Blondlot,physicist (born 1849)
• 22 December –Marion Manville Pope, American author (born1859)

• List of French films of 1930

• 1930 in France
• 1930 by country
• 1930 in Europe
• 1930s in France
• Years of the 20th century in France

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