1 January – Creation of
SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), bringing the country's principal railway companies together under government control.
14 March – Premier
Léon Blum reassures the Czechoslovak government that France will honor its treaty obligations to aid
Czechoslovakia in event of German invasion.
4 September – During the ceremony marking the unveiling of a plaque at Pointe de Grave celebrating Franco-American friendship, American ambassador
William Bullitt in a speech states, "France and the United States were united in war and peace".
30 September –
Munich Agreement is signed by France, Germany, Britain and Italy permitting German annexation of
Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
12 November – Finance Minister
Paul Reynaud brings into effect a series of laws aiming at improving French productivity (thus aiming to undo the economic weaknesses which led to Munich) and undoes most of the economic and social laws of the Popular Front.
25 November – Bonnet informs
Léon Noël, the French ambassador to Poland, that France should find an excuse for terminating the 1921 Franco-Polish alliance.
30 November
A general strike is called by the
French Communist Party to protest the laws of 12 November.
Benito Mussolini and his Foreign Minister Count
Galeazzo Ciano order "spontaneous" demonstrations in the Italian Chamber of Deputies demanding that France cede Tunisia, Nice, Corsica and French Somaliland to Italy, beginning an acute crisis in Franco-Italian relations that lasts until March 1939.
1 January – Creation of
SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), bringing the country's principal railway companies together under government control.
14 March – Premier
Léon Blum reassures the Czechoslovak government that France will honor its treaty obligations to aid
Czechoslovakia in event of German invasion.
4 September – During the ceremony marking the unveiling of a plaque at Pointe de Grave celebrating Franco-American friendship, American ambassador
William Bullitt in a speech states, "France and the United States were united in war and peace".
30 September –
Munich Agreement is signed by France, Germany, Britain and Italy permitting German annexation of
Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
12 November – Finance Minister
Paul Reynaud brings into effect a series of laws aiming at improving French productivity (thus aiming to undo the economic weaknesses which led to Munich) and undoes most of the economic and social laws of the Popular Front.
25 November – Bonnet informs
Léon Noël, the French ambassador to Poland, that France should find an excuse for terminating the 1921 Franco-Polish alliance.
30 November
A general strike is called by the
French Communist Party to protest the laws of 12 November.
Benito Mussolini and his Foreign Minister Count
Galeazzo Ciano order "spontaneous" demonstrations in the Italian Chamber of Deputies demanding that France cede Tunisia, Nice, Corsica and French Somaliland to Italy, beginning an acute crisis in Franco-Italian relations that lasts until March 1939.