1919 in France

Incumbents

• President: Raymond Poincaré
• President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau

  Events

• 18 January - The Paris Peace Conference, opens at the Quai d'Orsay, with delegates from 27 nations attending for meetings at the Palace of Versailles ; for its duration Paris is effectively the center of a world government. On 25 January the Conference agrees to establish the League of Nations.
• April - Long-Berenger Oil Agreement is concluded between France and the United Kingdom over oil rights.
• 1 May - A large left-wing demonstration leads to a violent confrontation with the police.
• 28 June - Treaty of Versailles is signed, officially ending World War I and concluding the main sessions of the Paris Peace Conference.
• 7 July - First customer takes delivery of a Citroën automobile.
• 31 July - Perfumier L'Oréal is registered by Eugène Schueller.
• 10 September - Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is signed, ending World War I with Austria.
• 16 November - Legislative Election held.
• 17 November - American expatriate Sylvia Beach opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.
• 27 November - Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine is signed.
• 30 November - Legislative Election held.

  Sport

• 29 June - Tour de France begins.
• 27 July - Tour de France ends, won by Fermin Lambot of Belgium.

  Births

January to June

• 6 January - Jacques Laurent, writer and journalist
• 19 January - Simone Melchior, wife and business partner of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• 18 March - Michèle Arnaud, singer, producer and director
• 1 April - Jeannie Rousseau, Allied intelligence agent
• 7 April - Jackie Sardou, actress
• 8 April - André Héléna, writer
• 13 April - René Gallice, soccer player
• 21 April - André Bettencourt, Resistance fighter, politician and Minister
• 29 April - Gérard Oury, actor, writer and producer
• 7 June - Roger Borniche, detective
• 21 June - Jean Joyet, painter
• 21 June - Guy Lux, game show host and producer

  July to September

• 2 July - Albert Batteux, international soccer player and manager
• 2 July - Henri Genès, actor and singer
• 17 July - Jean Leymarie, art historian
• 18 July - Daniel du Janerand, painter
• 19 July - Solange Troisier, physician
• 31 July - Maurice Boitel, painter
• 10 August - Sacha Vierny, cinematographer
• 11 August - Ginette Neveu, violinist
• 9 September - Jacques Marin, actor
• 12 September - Jean Prouff, soccer player and manager

  October to December

• 3 October - Jean Lefebvre, actor
• 7 October - Georges Duby, historian
• 8 October - André Valmy, actor
• 20 October - André Pousse, actor
• 5 November - Félix Gaillard, Radical politician and Prime Minister of France
• 10 November - François Périer, actor
• 16 November - Georges-Hilaire Dupont, Roman Catholic bishop
• 18 November - Andrée Borrel, World War II heroine
• 11 December - Lucien Teisseire, road bicycle racer
• 30 December - François Bordes, scientist, geologist, and archaeologist

  Full date unknown

• Pierre Garat, civil servant in Vichy France
• Laure Leprieur, radio personality

  Deaths

• 2 September - Jean-Pierre Brisset, writer
• 30 October - Jules Develle, politician
• 7 November - Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan, statesman and naturalist
• 3 December - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter
• 21 December - Louis Diémer, pianist and composer