Events from the year 1926 in France.
Incumbents President: Gaston Doumergue President of the Council of Ministers: until 20 July: Aristide Briand 20 July-23 July: Édouard Herriot starting 23 July: Raymond Poincaré
Events 9 May – French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots. 15 July – Grand Mosque of Paris inaugurated. 24 November – The village of Rocquebillier on the Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm. The Guide Michelin first awards stars to restaurants.
Arts and literature Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts institutes the Prix Puvis de Chavannes, named after co-founder and first president, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
Sport 20 June – Tour de France begins. 18 July – Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Buysse of Belgium.
Births January to June 17 January – Robert Filliou, artist (died 1987) 2 February – Philippe Chatrier, tennis player (died 2000) 7 February – Pierre Villette, composer (died 1998) 11 February – Paul Bocuse, chef (died 2018) 19 February – Pierre Guénin, journalist, gay rights activist (died 2017) 1 March – Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer (died 2022) 19 March – Henri René Guieu, science fiction writer (died 2000) 13 April – André Testut, motor racing driver (died 2005) 8 May – Pierre Broué, historian and Trotskyist (died 2005) 5 June – Claude Berge, mathematician (died 2002) 12 June – Jean-Pierre Munch, cyclist (died 1996) 26 June – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (died 1994)
July to December 6 July – Serge Roullet, film director and screenwriter (died 2023) 18 July – Bernard Pons, politician (died 2022) 26 July – Monique Pelletier, politician (died 2025) 10 August – Michel Breitman, writer and translator (died 2009) 14 August – René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist (died 1977) 16 August – Roger Agache, archaeologist (died 2011) 17 August Maurice Lusien, swimmer (died 2017) Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter (died 1992) 15 September – Jean-Pierre Serre, mathematician 17 September – Jean-Marie Lustiger, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris and cardinal (died 2007) 15 October – Michel Foucault, philosopher, historian, critic and sociologist (died 1984) 1 November – James Marson, politician (died 2017) 3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, painter (died 2005) 9 November – Raymond Hains, artist and photographer (died 2005) 2 December – Armand Avril, painter and sculptor died 2025) 12 December – Étienne-Émile Baulieu, biochemist (died 2025) 21 December – Georges Boudarel, academic and Communist militant (died 2003)
Deaths 14 January – René Boylesve, author (born 1867) 28 February – Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, astronomer (born 1842) 26 March – Georges Aaron Bénédite, Egyptologist (born 1857) 2 July – Émile Coué, psychologist and pharmacist (born 1857) 21 September – Léon Charles Thévenin, telegraph engineer (born 1857) 30 September – Agnès Souret, model, "la plus belle femme de France" (peritonitis in Argentina) (born 1902) 5 December – Claude Monet, painter (born 1840) Date unknown – Jean-Camille Formigé, architect (born 1845)
See also List of French films of 1926
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