1935 in France

Incumbents

• President: Albert Lebrun
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 1 June: Pierre-Étienne Flandin
• * 1 June-7 June: Fernand Bouisson
• * starting 7 June: Pierre Laval

  Events

• 4 January – Foreign Minister Pierre Laval went to Rome to meet Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
• 7 January – Franco-Italian Agreement is signed in Rome in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
• 14 April – Stresa Front agreement is concluded between France, Britain and Italy.
• 2 May – Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance is concluded.
• December – Hoare–Laval Pact signed with Great Britain.

  Sport

• 4 July – Tour de France begins.
• 28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Romain Maes of Belgium

  Births

• 2 February – Jean-Louis Verdier, mathematician
• 12 March
• *Jacques Benveniste, immunologist
• *Paul John Marx, French-Papua Roman Catholic prelate
• 1 June – Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta, mathematician.
• 15 June – Robert Lamartine, soccer player
• 21 June – Françoise Sagan, playwright, novelist and screenwriter
• 24 August – Christian Liger, French writer
• 18 September – Raymond Vautherin, French-Italian linguist, poet and playwright
• 25 September – Adrien Douady, mathematician
• 8 November – Alain Delon, actor

  Deaths

• 12 February – Auguste Escoffier, chef, restaurateur and culinary writer
• 17 May – Paul Dukas, composer and teacher
• 3 July – André Citroën, automobile pioneer
• 12 July – Alfred Dreyfus, military officer, victim in the Dreyfus Affair
• 30 August – Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist
• 4 October – Jean Béraud, painter and commercial artist
• 4 December – Charles Richet, physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1913
• 13 December – Victor Grignard, chemist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912