1953 in France

• President: Vincent Auriol
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• until 8 January: Antoine Pinay
• 8 January – 28 June: René Mayer
• starting 28 June: Joseph Laniel

• 4 January – Operation Bretagne ends, with French victory over the Viet Minh in Vietnam.
• 9 May – France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with the king Norodom Sihanouk.
• 5 July – First meeting of the assembly of the European Economic Community in Strasbourg.
• 17 July – Miss France Christiane Martel Won Miss Universe 1953{{cite news |last=Mihaela |first=Dima |date=13 September 2009 |title=Miss Universe: Finnish Armi Kuusela first beauty queen |newspaper=Adevărul |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ro&u=http://www.adevarul.ro/magazin_de_duminica/Finlandeza-Universe-Kunsela-Armi-Miss_0_115788444.html&ei=FyyuTLbKBoG4sAOD_YXXDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.adevarul.ro/magazin_de_duminica/Finlandeza-Universe-Kunsela-Armi-Miss_0_115788444.html%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26prmd%3Div |access-date=7 October 2010}}
• 28 July – Operation Camargue, further French military action against the Viet Minh, begins.{{Cite book |last=Windrow |first=Martin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60180594 |title=The French Indochina War, 1946-1954 |date=1998 |publisher=Osprey Military |isbn=1-85532-789-9 |location=Oxford |oclc=60180594}}
• 10 August – Operation Camargue ends.
• 13 August – 4 million workers go on strike in France to protest against austerity measures.
• 25 August – General strike ends in France.
• 9 November – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
• 20 November – Operation Castor, airborne operation to establish a fortified airhead in Điện Biên Province, starts.
• 22 November – Operation Castor ends.

• 4 January – En Attendant Godot premiered at {{ill|Théâtre de Babylone|de||fi||fr}}

• 3 July – Tour de France begins.
• 27 July – Tour de France ends, won by Louison Bobet.

• 28 January – Anicée Alvina, singer and actress (died 2006)
• 9 February – Michèle Rivasi, politician (died 2023)
• 20 February – Gérard Araud, diplomat
• 4 March – Rose Laurens, singer-songwriter (died 2018)
• 16 March – Isabelle Huppert, actress
• 8 August – Jean Hélène, journalist (died 2003)
• 19 August – Benoît Régent, actor (died 1994)
• 22 September – Ségolène Royal, politician
• 12 October – Serge Lepeltier, politician
• 14 November – Dominique de Villepin, politician, Prime Minister of France
• 23 November – Francis Cabrel, singer-songwriter
• 29 November – Christine Pascal, actress, writer and director (died 1996)
• 1 December – Antoine de Caunes, television presenter, actor, writer and film director

• 24 March – Paul Couturier, priest and promoter of the concept of Christian unity (born 1881)
• 4 April – Rachilde, author (born 1860)
• 4 July – Jean Becquerel, physicist (born 1878)
• 9 August – Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (born 1874)
• 29 November – Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist (born 1888)
• 30 November – Francis Picabia, painter and poet (born 1879)

• List of French films of 1953

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