24 July – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on 27 August 1928 by most leading world powers).
5 September – Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.
22 October – Briand's government falls.
Arts and literature
15 January – First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in by Armand Colin.
October
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met for the first time while he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. 21-year-old De Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre.
La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition including Yves Tanguy.[1]