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| 1949 |
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| Publication of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, in which women's social subjugation is credited to patriarchal rather than biological or psychological structures. Her book became one of the seminal treatises of the modern feminist movement. | 1 |
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| Feb. 22 |
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| Communist leader Maurice Thorez stated that French Communists would refuse to defend France against a Soviet army. | 2 |
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| Oct. 5 |
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| Economic difficulties led to the resignation of Henri Queuille. Jules Moch and René Mayer tried unsuccessfully to form a cabinet. | 3 |
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| Oct. 28 |
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| The Assembly approved a coalition under Georges Bidault. | 4 |
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| Nov. 3 |
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| French forces withdrew from the northern border of Indochina (See 1949, March 8). | 5 |
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