1948 in France

Incumbents

• President: Vincent Auriol
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• * until 24 July: Robert Schuman
• * 24 July-2 September: André Marie
• * 2 September-11 September: Robert Schuman
• * starting 11 September: Henri Queuille

  Events

• 17 March - Treaty of Brussels, is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, aimed mainly at defending against possible German rearmament.
• 5 September - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 7 October - Citroën 2CV economy car introduced at the Paris Motor Show.

  Sport

• 30 June - Tour de France begins.
• 25 July - Tour de France ends, won by Gino Bartali of Italy.

  Births

• 17 February - Philippe Khorsand, actor
• 10 March - Jean-Pierre Adams, international soccer player
• 11 March - Dominique Sanda, actress
• 9 April - Bernard-Marie Koltès, playwright and director
• 30 July - Jean Reno, actor
• 3 August - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France
• 8 October - Claude Jade, actress
• 27 December - Gérard Depardieu, actor

  Deaths

• 7 January - Jean-Baptiste Chabot, priest and Syriac scholar
• 15 January - Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, astronomer
• 12 February - Caroline Lacroix, courtesan
• 4 March
• *Antonin Artaud, dramatist, poet, actor and director
• *Lucien Rouzet, physicist and inventor
• 12 March - Antoine Lacroix, mineralogist and geologist
• 5 July - Georges Bernanos, author
• 6 July - René de Labarrière, first UN soldier killed in action
• 31 July - Georges Blondel, historian
• 25 September - Pierre Frondaie, poet, novelist and playwright
• 11 October - André Bloch, mathematician