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Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war
French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip
20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)
French actor Jean Gabin makes his screen debut in Chacun sa Chance
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York
The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris
Hungarian photographer Brassaï publishes his photographs of the seedier side of Paris night life in Paris de Nuit
Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
George Balanchine, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborate in Paris on Seven Deadly Sins, a ballet with songs
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate
Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie discover artificial radioactivity
Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grapelli form the Quintet du Hot Club de France
Adolf Hitler informs Britain and France that he is building up the German armed forces, in contravention of the Versailles treaty
Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachy, a masterpiece of etching, prefigures some of the themes of Guernica
Arthur Honegger's opera Joan of Arc at the Stake has its premiere in Basel
French cabaret singer Edith Gassion acquires the nickname la môme piaf ('the little sparrow'), and so becomes Edith Piaf
The Spanish Civil War causes the Basque designer Cristobal Balenciaga to move his business to Paris, capital of the fashion world
French film director Jean Renoir makes La Grande Illusion, set in World War I
