1950 in France

Events from the year 1950 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Vincent Auriol
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• until 2 July: Georges Bidault
• 2 July-12 July: Henri Queuille
• starting 12 July: René Pleven

Events

• 11 February – Two Viet Cong battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.
• 12 February – Pro-communist riots in Paris.
• 9 April – Notre-Dame Affair, Lettrist movement anti-Catholic intervention.
• 3 June – Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
• 15–18 September – Battle of Đông Khê, French defeat in First Indochina War.
• 30 September – Battle of Route Coloniale 4 begins.
• 18 October – Battle of Route Coloniale 4 ends in decisive victory for the Việt Minh.
• 20 October – Henri Martin affair: a sailor is imprisoned for distributing propaganda hostile to the First Indochina War.

Sport

• 13 July – Tour de France begins.
• 7 August – Tour de France ends, won by Ferdinand Kübler of Switzerland.

Births

• 24 January – Daniel Auteuil, actor and director
• 15 February – Guy Touvron, trumpeter (died 2024)
• 22 February – Miou-Miou, actress.
• 5 March – Bernard Vera, politician
• 21 April – Michel Rougerie, motorcycle racer (died 1981)
• 8 May – Aimé Venel, painter
• 9 August
• Anémone, French actress, filmmaker and political activist (died 2019)
• Nicole Tourneur, French novelist (died 2011)
• 25 September – Philippe Peythieu, actor.

Deaths

• 6 February – Georges Imbert, chemical engineer (born 1884)
• 2 March – Joseph d'Arbaud, poet (born 1874)
• 6 March – Albert Lebrun, politician and President of France (born 1871)
• 16 April – Arnaud Massy, golfer (born 1877)
• 28 September – Joë Bousquet, poet (born 1897)
• 10 November – Jean Biondi, politician (born 1900; car crash)
• 11 November – Pierre-Jules Boulanger, engineer and businessman (born 1885; car crash)

See also

• List of French films of 1950

References