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1928
 
     
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war        
1929
 
    
French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip       
1929
 
   
20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano      
1930
 
    
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer       
c. 1930
 
    
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)       
1930
 
    
French actor Jean Gabin makes his screen debut in Chacun sa Chance       
1932
 
    
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York       
1932
 
    
The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master       
1932
 
    
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published       
1932
 
    
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris