# 1925 in France

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Events from the year 1925 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Gaston Doumergue
* President of the Council of Ministers:
** until 17 April: Édouard Herriot
** 17 April-28 November: Paul Painlevé
** starting 28 November: Aristide Briand

## Events

* 21 May – 25 October International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble.
* 25 August – Occupation of the Ruhr ends with the evacuation of the last French troops.
* Cookware manufacturer Le Creuset established in Fresnoy-le-Grand.
* Ybry, a French luxury perfume and fashion house is founded.

## Sport

* 21 June – Tour de France begins.
* 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy.

## Births
### January to March

* 1 January – Raymond Pellegrin, actor (died 2007)
* 6 January – Joseph-André Motte, furniture designer (died 2013)
* 7 January – Pierre Gripari, writer (died 1990)
* 18 January – Gilles Deleuze, philosopher (died 1995)
* 2 February – Marcela Delpastre, author (died 1998)
* 13 February – René Pleimelding, soccer player (died 1998)
* 16 February – François-Xavier Ortoli, politician, businessman, Minister and President of the European Commission (died 2007)
* 4 March – Paul Mauriat, musical director (died 2006)
* 12 March – Louison Bobet, cyclist, three times Tour de France winner (died 1983)
* 12 March – Georges Delerue, film composer (died 1992)
* 21 March – Max Varnel, film and television director (died 1996)
* 26 March – Pierre Boulez, composer and conductor (died 2016)

### April to June

* 10 April – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (died 1994)
* 27 April – François Châtelet, historian of philosophy (died 1985)
* 30 April – Corinne Calvet, actress (died 2001)
* 3 May – Jean Séguy, sociologist of religions (died 2007)
* 17 May
** Michel de Certeau, Jesuit and scholar (died 1986)
** Claude Julien, journalist and editor (died 2005)
* 25 May – Claude Pinoteau, film director and scriptwriter (died 2012)
* 27 May – Jean-Paul Aron, writer and journalist (died 1988)
* 8 June – Claude Estier, politician and journalist (died 2016)
* 14 June – Jean-Louis Rosier, racing driver (died 2011)
* 25 June – Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, lawyer and politician (died 2019)
* 26 June – Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman (died 2021)

### July to September

* 3 July – Roger Chesneau, steeplechaser (died 2012)
* 8 July
** Jean Cau, writer and journalist (died 1993)
** Dominique Nohain, actor, dramatist and director (died 2017)
* 11 July – Jules Henri Saiset, existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and critic (died 1995)
* 14 July – Gaston Rousseau, racing cyclist (died 2019)
* 19 July
** Henri Beaujean, politician (died 2021)
** Jean-Pierre Faye, philosopher, poet and writer
* 20 July
** Jacques Delors, European politician (died 2023)
** Frantz Fanon, Martinique-born psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1961)
* 6 August
** Lilyan Chauvin, actress and writer (died 2008)
** Guy Degrenne, businessman (died 2006)
* 21 August – Maurice Pialat, film director, screenwriter and actor (died 2003)
* 26 August – Alain Peyrefitte, scholar and politician (died 1999)
* 27 August – Darry Cowl, actor and musician (died 2006)
* 30 August – Laurent de Brunhoff, author and illustrator (died 2024)

### October to December

* 3 October – Simone Segouin, Resistance fighter (died 2023)
* 13 October – Armand Mouyal, epee fencer (died 1988)
* 31 October -
** Roger Nimier, novelist (died 1962)
** Franck Ténot, press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic (died 2004)
* 24 November – André Lévy, sinologist (died 2017)
* 27 November – Claude Lanzmann, documentary filmmaker and philosopher (died 2018)
* 2 December – Jacques Lacarrière, writer, critic, journalist, and essayist (died 2005)
* 5 December – Henri Oreiller, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist (died 1962)
* 7 December – Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian Formula One driver
* 23 December – Pierre Bérégovoy, politician and Prime Minister (died 1993)
* 26 December – Claude Meillassoux, economic anthropologist and Africanist (died 2005)

### Full date unknown

* Roger Giroux, poet (died 1974)
* Claude Tresmontant, philosopher, hellenist and theologian (died 1997)

## Deaths
### January to June

* 29 January – Charles-Eusèbe Dionne, naturalist and taxidermist (born 1846)
* 10 February – Aristide Bruant, singer, comedian and nightclub owner (born 1851)
* 14 February – Jacques Rivière, man of letters (born 1886; typhoid)
* 25 February – Louis Feuillade, film director (born 1873)
* 4 March – Roger de Barbarin, trap shooter (born 1860)
* 5 March
** Clément Ader, engineer and aviation pioneer (born 1841)
** Michel Verne, writer (born 1861)
* 19 March – Firmin Bouisset, poster artist (born 1859)
* 22 April – André Caplet, composer and conductor (born 1878)
* 3 May – Louis Delaporte, explorer and artist (born 1842)
* 12 May
** Léonce Bénédite, art historian and curator (born 1856)
** Charles Mangin, general during World War I (born 1866)
* 1 June – Lucien Guitry, actor (born 1860)
* 6 June – Pierre Louÿs, poet (born 1870)
* 13 June – Paul Teste, aviator (born 1892; air crash)

### July to December

* 1 July – Erik Satie, composer and pianist (born 1866)
* 5 August – Georges Palante, philosopher and sociologist (born 1862)
* 12 August – Leon Dehon, clergyman (born 1843)
* 7 September – René Viviani, politician, Prime Minister (born 1863)
* 29 September – Léon Bourgeois, politician, Prime Minister, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1920 (born 1851)
* 31 October – Max Linder, actor (born 1883)
* 11 November – Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, poet, writer and pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry (born 1843)
* 21 December – Jules Méline, statesman, Prime Minister (born 1838)
* 22 December – Joseph Ravaisou, landscape painter (born 1865)
* 26 December – Jules Patenotre des Noyers, diplomat (born 1845)
* 27 December – Marie-Louise Jaÿ, businesswoman (born 1838)