1927 in France explained

Events from the year 1927 in France.

Incumbents

• President

• President of the Council of Ministers

Raymond Poincaré

Events

• 20 May–21 May – First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
• 13 June – Léon Daudet, leader of French monarchists, is arrested after barricading himself into his house to avoid the police.^[1]
• 18 October – The Schwartzbard trial, relating to the murder of Symon Petliura, begins.^[2]

Sport

• 19 June – Tour de France begins.
• 17 July – Tour de France ends, won by Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg.

Births

January to March

• 1 January – Maurice Béjart, choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne (died 2007)
• 7 February – Juliette Gréco, singer and actress (died 2020)^[3]
• 20 February – Hubert de Givenchy, aristocrat and fashion designer (died 2018)
• 23 February – Régine Crespin, opera singer (died 2007)
• 7 March – Philippe Clay, mime artist, singer and actor (died 2007)
• 19 March – Gisèle Lestrange, graphic artist (died 1991)
• 27 March – François Furet, historian (died 1997)

April to June

• 15 April – Maurice Ronet, actor, director and writer (died 1983)
• 25 April – Albert Uderzo, comic book artist and scriptwriter (died 2020)
• 3 May – Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard, athlete (died 2017)
• 4 May – Jacques Lanzmann, writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer (died 2006)
• 18 May – François Nourissier, journalist and writer (died 2011)
• 24 May – Claude Abbes, international soccer player (died 2008)
• 20 June – Bernard Cahier, Formula One photo-journalist (died 2008)

July to September

• 3 July – Pierre Cahuzac, soccer player (died 2003)
• 13 July – Simone Veil, lawyer and politician (died 2017)
• 16 July – Serge Baudo, French conductor
• 17 July – Jean Casadesus, classical pianist (died 1972)
• 19 July – Hervé Pinoteau, historian and royalist apologist (died 2020)
• 23 July – Gérard Brach, film director and screenwriter (died 2006)
• 27 July – Pierre Granier-Deferre, film director (died 2007)
• 14 August – Roger Carel, actor and voice talent (died 2020)
• 7 September – François Billetdoux, playwright and novelist (died 1991)
• 13 September – Mathé Altéry, soprano and actress
• 13 September – Maurice Lafont, international soccer player (died 2005)

October to December

• 19 October – Jean Bastien-Thiry, attempted assassin of President Charles de Gaulle in 1962 (died 1963)
• 24 October -
  • Gilbert Bécaud, singer, composer and actor (died 2001)
  • Jean-Claude Pascal, costume designer and singer (died 1992)
• 18 November – Gérard Calvet, Roman Catholic abbot (died 2008)
• 1 December – Micheline Bernardini, dancer and model
• 9 December – Pierre Henry, musique concrète composer (died 2017)^[4]
• 25 December – Georges Besse, businessman (assassinated 1986)
• 30 December – Robert Hossein, actor (died 2020)

Full date unknown

• Claude Ponsard, economist (died 1990)

Deaths

• 12 March – Léon Denis, spiritist philosopher and researcher (born 1846)
• 23 March – Paul César Helleu, artist (born 1859)
• 15 April – Gaston Leroux, journalist, detective and novelist (born 1868)^[5]
• 18 June – Gustave Charles Fagniez, historian and economist (born 1842)
• 30 June – Édouard Louis Trouessart, zoologist (born 1842)^[6]
• 10 July – Louise Abbéma, painter and designer (born 1853)
• 4 August – Eugène Atget, photographer (born 1857)

See also

• List of French films of 1927

Notes and References

1. Book: Foreign Affairs: A Monthly Digest and Interpretation. 1927. Time and Tide. 27.
2. Book: Alfred Morain. The Underworld of Paris, Secrets of the Sûreté. 1931. E. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated. 137.
3. Web site: Obituary: Juliette Gréco . BBC News . 23 September 2020 . 23 September 2020.
4. News: 27 July 2017 . Pierre Henry . The Times .
5. Book: Gaston Leroux. Level 5: The Phantom of the Opera. 7 September 2015. Pearson Education Limited. 978-1-4479-5723-2. 5.
6. Book: Elmer C. Birney. Jerry R. Choate. Seventy-five years of mammalogy, 1919-1994. 1 January 1994. American Society of Mammalogists. 74.