See also: 1930 in France, other events of 1931, 1932 in France.

Events from the year 1931 in France.

Events

• 27 January - Pierre Laval forms a government in France.
• 27 March - British writer Arnold Bennett dies in Paris when he drinks local water to prove it is safe to drink - but is poisoned.
• 6 May - Paris Colonial Exposition opens.
• 13 May - Paul Doumer elected president of France.
• 14 June - Overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the river Loire and over 450 drown.
• 8 November- French police launch a large scale raid against Corsican bandits.

Arts and Literature

• The Persistence of Memory is put on display for the first time in Paris at the Galerie Pierre Colle.

Sport

• 30 June - Tour de France begins.
• 26 July - Tour de France ends, won by Antonin Magne.

Births

January to June

• 26 February - Jacques Rouxel, animator (d.2004).
• 6 March - Nicolas Barone, cyclist (d.2003).
• 3 June - Jean Bouise, actor (d.1989).
• 5 June - Jacques Demy, film director (d.1990).

July to December

• 1 July - Leslie Caron, actress.
• 4 July - Sébastien Japrisot, author, screenwriter and film director (d.2003).
• 24 July - Éric Tabarly, sailor (d.1998).
• 23 August - Coccinelle, transsexual actress and entertainer (d.2006).
• 6 November - André Trochut, cyclist (d.1996).
• 28 December - Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (d.1994).

Full date unknown

• Serge Danot, animator (d.1990).
• Christian Metz, film theorist (d.1993).

Deaths

• 1 February - Emmanuel d'Orléans, noble from the House of Orléans (b.1872).
• 22 June - Armand Fallières, politician and President of France (b.1841).
• 7 November - Étienne Bazeries, military cryptanalyst (b.1846).
• 2 December - Vincent d'Indy, composer (b.1851).

Full date unknown

• Alexandre Darracq, automobile manufacturer (b.1855).

References

fr:1931 en France