1932 in France
Events from the year 1932 in France.Incumbents
January to June
- 31 January – Raymond Kaelbel, international soccer player
- 6 February – François Truffaut, screenwriter, film director, producer and actor
- 18 February – Alphonse Halimi, boxer
- 19 February – Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director
- 22 February – Robert Opron, automotive designer
- 24 February – Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist
- 30 March – Ted Morgan, French-born biographer and journalist
- 7 April – Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause
- 12 April – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor
- 16 April – Pierre Milza, French historian
- 27 April – Anouk Aimée, born Françoise Dreyfus, film actress
- 1 May – Charles Ducasse, soccer player
- 17 May – Archiguille, painter
- 21 May – Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist
July to December
- 1 July- Ze'ev Schiff, French-born Israeli military journalist
- 21 July - Marie-Claire Bancquart, poet and critic
- 22 July – Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player
- 18 August – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
- 19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator
- 25 August - Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and impresario
- 1 October – Manuel Busto, French racing cyclist
- 13 October – Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer
- 24 October - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991
- 27 October - Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor
- 30 October - Louis Malle, film director
- 8 November – Stéphane Audran, French actress
- 29 November - Jacques Chirac, President of France
- 1 December - Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player
- 15 December - Charles Bozon, alpine skier and world champion
Full date unknown
- André Pascal, songwriter and composer
Deaths
January to June
- 7 January - André Maginot, politician, advocate of the Maginot Line
- February - Charles Gide, economist and historian of economic thought
- 16 February - Ferdinand Buisson, academic. pacifist, politician, awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1927
- 16 February - Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, radio pioneer and army general
- 7 March - Aristide Briand, statesman, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 3 May - Henri de Gaulle, bureaucrat, teacher and father of Charles de Gaulle
- 7 May - Paul Doumer, President of France
- 9 June - Émile Friant, painter
- 29 June - Jean Marie Charles Abadie, ophthalmologist
July to December
- 5 July - René-Louis Baire, mathematician
- 18 July - Jean Jules Jusserand, author and diplomat
- 20 July - René Bazin, novelist
- 23 September - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer
- 29 October - Rodolphe d'Erlanger, painter and musicologist
Full date unknown
- Léon Bouly, inventor who devised and created the cinématographe