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| 1921 |
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| Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) staged his play Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, a farce that mirrored the prevailing surrealist sentiment of the times. Music for the play was composed by Les Six, a group of composers who introduced modern music to France in the 1920s. Les Six included Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983). | 1 |
| Other popular playwrights included Jean Anouilh (1910–87), Eugène Bireux (1858–1932), Henri Bernstein (1876–1953), Paul Claudel (1868–1955), Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), and Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944). | 2 |
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| Jan. 13 |
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| The General Confederation of Labor was dissolved by court order after having attempted a failed general strike in May 1920. It survived the court order but lost many adherents. Its position was further eroded by schism and the creation of two new organizations, the Catholic CFTC and the Communist CGTU. Throughout this period 90 percent of French workers remained unorganized, however. | 3 |
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| Nov. 10 |
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| Anatole France (1844–1924) received the Nobel Prize in literature. Novelists of the time included Marcel Proust (1871–1922), André Gide (1869–1951), Romain Rolland (1866–1944), André Malraux (1901–76), Jules Romain (1885–1972), Colette (1873–1954), and François Mauriac (1885–1970). | 4 |
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