1927 in France

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue
• 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.
• 18 October - The Schwartzbard trial, relating to the murder of Symon Petliura, begins.

  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
• 7 February - Juliette Gréco, singer and actress
• 20 February - Hubert de Givenchy, aristocrat and fashion designer
• 23 February - Régine Crespin, opera singer
• 7 March - Philippe Clay, mime artist, singer and actor
• 19 March - Gisèle Lestrange, graphic artist
• 27 March - François Furet, historian

  April to June

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

  July to September

• 3 July - Pierre Cahuzac, soccer player
• 13 July - Simone Veil, lawyer and politician
• 16 July - Serge Baudo, French conductor
• 17 July - Jean Casadesus, classical pianist
• 19 July - Hervé Pinoteau, historian and royalist apologist
• 23 July - Gérard Brach, film director and screenwriter
• 27 July - Pierre Granier-Deferre, film director
• 14 August - Roger Carel, actor and voice talent
• 7 September - François Billetdoux, playwright and novelist
• 13 September - Maurice Lafont, international soccer player

  October to December

• 19 October - Jean Bastien-Thiry, attempted assassin of President Charles de Gaulle in 1962
• 24 October -
• *Gilbert Bécaud, singer, composer and actor
• *Jean-Claude Pascal, costume designer and singer
• 18 November - Gérard Calvet, Roman Catholic abbot
• 9 December - Pierre Henry, musique concrète composer
• 25 December - Georges Besse, businessman

  Full date unknown

• Claude Ponsard, economist

  Deaths

• 12 March - Léon Denis, spiritist philosopher and researcher
• 23 March - Paul César Helleu, artist
• 15 April - Gaston Leroux, journalist, detective and novelist
• 18 June - Gustave Charles Fagniez, historian and economist
• 30 June - Édouard Louis Trouessart, zoologist
• 10 July - Louise Abbéma, painter and designer
• 4 August - Eugène Atget, photographer