1988 in France
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1987 in France
1987 in France
See also:1986 in France,other events of 1987,1988 in France.----Events from the year 1987 in France.-Events:*24 March - The Euro Disneyland Project agreement is signed by The Walt Disney Company and the French government, enabling a theme park to be built to the east of Paris...

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other events of 1988,
1989 in France
1989 in France
See also:1988 in France,other events of 1989,1990 in France.----Events from the year 1989 in France.-Events:*January - Two women, Nathalie Menigon and Joelle Aubron , are found guilty of murdering Renault owner Georges Besse, who was shot dead in Paris November 1986...

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Events from the year 1988 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

Events

  • 29 March - African National Congress
    African National Congress
    The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...

     representative Dulcie September
    Dulcie September
    September, Dulcie Evonne was born on August 20th, 1935 in Gleemore , Western Cape, South Africa. She died after being assassinated in Paris, France on March 29, 1988...

     assassinated in Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

    .
  • 24 April - Presidential Election
    French presidential election, 1988
    Presidential elections were held in France on 24 April and 8 May 1988.In 1981, the Socialist Party leader, François Mitterrand, was elected President of France and the Left won the legislative election. However, in 1986, the Right regained a parliamentary majority. President Mitterrand was forced...

     held.
  • 8 May - Presidential Election
    French presidential election, 1988
    Presidential elections were held in France on 24 April and 8 May 1988.In 1981, the Socialist Party leader, François Mitterrand, was elected President of France and the Left won the legislative election. However, in 1986, the Right regained a parliamentary majority. President Mitterrand was forced...

     held, won by François Mitterrand
    François Mitterrand
    François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...

    .
  • 5 June - Legislative Election
    French legislative election, 1988
    French legislative elections took place on 5 June and 12 June 1988 to elect the 9th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, one month after the re-election of François Mitterrand as President of France....

     held.
  • 12 June - Legislative Election
    French legislative election, 1988
    French legislative elections took place on 5 June and 12 June 1988 to elect the 9th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, one month after the re-election of François Mitterrand as President of France....

     held.
  • 26 June - Air France Flight 296
    Air France Flight 296
    Air France Flight 296 was a chartered flight of a new fly-by-wire Airbus A320-111 operated by Air France. On June 26, 1988, it was flying over Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport as part of an air show. The low-speed fly-by was supposed to take place at with landing gear down at an altitude of 100 feet...

     Airbus A320
    Airbus A320 family
    The Airbus A320 family is a family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliners manufactured by Airbus Industrie.Airbus was originally a consortium of European aerospace companies, and is now fully owned by EADS. Airbus's name has been Airbus SAS since 2001...

     crashes at an airshow at Mulhouse killing three passengers.
  • 26 June - Matignon Accords referendum
    French Matignon Accords referendum, 1988
    A referendum on the Matignon Accords was held in France on 6 November 1988. The accords were approved by 80% of voters, although turnout was just 36.9%.-Results:...

     held.
  • 27 June - Gare de Lyon train accident
    Gare de Lyon train accident
    The Gare de Lyon rail accident happened on 27 June 1988 when a commuter train inbound to the station Paris-Gare de Lyon crashed into a stationary train killing 56 people.-The disaster:...

     results in 56 deaths.
  • 21 July - Renault
    Renault
    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...

     launches the R19
    Renault 19
    The Renault 19 is a small family car that was produced by the French car manufacturer Renault between 1988 and 2000.-Overview:The R19 was launched on September 1988 as the replacement for the 9 and 11, both of which were ageing and outdated by the late 1980s...

     hatchback range, which replaces the Renault 11 hatchback. A saloon model to replace the Renault 9 is expected soon.
  • August - Construction begins on the Euro Disney resort and theme park east of Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

    ; it is expected to be open within three years.
  • 26 August - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in Charles de Gaulle International Airport
    Charles de Gaulle International Airport
    Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport , also known as Roissy Airport , in the Paris area, is one of the world's principal aviation centres, as well as France's largest airport. It is named after Charles de Gaulle , leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic...

     in Paris, where he will continue to reside until 1 August 2006.
  • 25 September - Cantonales Elections held.
  • 2 October - Cantonales Elections held.
  • 28 October - Abortion
    Abortion
    Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...

    : 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf
    Roussel Uclaf
    Roussel Uclaf S.A. was the second largest French pharmaceutical company before it was acquired by Hoechst AG of Frankfurt, Germany in 1997, with pharmaceutical operations combined into the Hoechst Marion Roussel division...

     states that it would resume distribution of the drug
    Drug
    A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine, and colloquial usage.In pharmacology, a...

    , bowing to pressure from the Government of France
    Government of France
    The government of the French Republic is a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic"...

    .

Sport

  • 4 July - Tour de France
    1988 Tour de France
    The 1988 Tour de France was the 75th Tour de France, taking place from July 4 to July 24, 1988. It consisted of 22 stages over 3281 km, ridden at an average speed of 38.909 km/h...

     begins.
  • 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Pedro Delgado
    Pedro Delgado
    Pedro Delgado Robledo , also known as Perico, is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 Tour de France, as well as the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1989....

     of Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

    .

January to March

  • 5 January - Pauline
    Pauline (singer)
    Pauline Vasseur , who performs under the mononym Pauline, is a French composer, songwriter and singer.-Biography:...

    , singer and songwriter.
  • 16 January - Benoît Richaud
    Benoît Richaud
    Benoit Richaud is a French ice dancer. He teamed up with partner Terra Findlay in 2008. They are the 2009 French bronze medalists. Their partnership ended following that season....

    , ice dancer.
  • 25 January - Tatiana Golovin
    Tatiana Golovin
    Tatiana Golovin is an inactive French professional tennis player. She is best known for her explosive forehand, which was said to be one of the best at the time. She notably won the 2004 French Open mixed doubles event with Richard Gasquet, and reached the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 U.S....

    , tennis player.
  • 12 February - Guillaume Borne
    Guillaume Borne
    Guillaume Borne is a French football player who currently plays for AS Beauvais.-External links:** at L'Equipe.fr...

    , soccer player.
  • 27 February - Sandy Paillot
    Sandy Paillot
    Sandy Paillot is a French footballer currently playing for Grenoble in Ligue 1. His primary position on the pitch is defender.-Club career:...

    , soccer player.
  • 5 March - Damien Plessis
    Damien Plessis
    Damien Plessis is a French footballer of Réunionais origin, who plays for Greek side Panathinaikos. He is also the younger brother of professional footballer Guillaume Plessis.-Olympique Lyonnais:...

    , soccer player.
  • 10 March - Kévin Olimpa
    Kévin Olimpa
    Kévin Olimpa is a French football goalkeeper of Cameroonian origin. He currently plays for Bordeaux in the French Ligue 1...

    , soccer player.
  • 27 March - Quentin Othon
    Quentin Othon
    Quentin Othon is a French football player who currently plays for French club RC Strasbourg. He has represented his country at under-16, under-17, under-18 and under-19 levels.-External links:*...

    , soccer player.
  • 28 March - Mélodie Chataigner
    Mélodie Chataigner
    Mélodie Chataigner is a French pair skater. She competes with Medhi Bouzzine. They are the two-time French national silver medalists and three-time national bronze medalists....

    , pair skater
    Pair skating
    Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals,...

    .
  • 31 March - Mickael Charvet
    Mickael Charvet
    Mickaël Charvet is a French footballer currently playing for AC Ajaccio. His primary position is at centre back.-Career:...

    , soccer player.

April to June

  • 21 April - Ibrahima Traoré
    Ibrahima Traoré
    Ibrahima Traoré is a French-born Guinean international footballer who plays professionally for German club VfB Stuttgart, as a left winger.- Club career :...

    , soccer player.
  • 4 May - Simon Pontdemé
    Simon Pontdemé
    Simon Pontdemé is a French football goalkeeper currently playing for AJ Auxerre. He previously played for Chamois Niortais and Brest.He won three caps for the France under-18 team in the 2006-07 season.-References:...

    , soccer player.
  • 18 May - Paul Baysse
    Paul Baysse
    Paul Baysse is a French professional football player who plays for Ligue 1 club Stade Brestois, as a defender.-Career:Born in Talence, Baysse played youth football with Bordeaux, making his senior debut in 2007 while on loan at Sedan. On 30 August 2010, Baysse signed with newly promoted Ligue 1...

    , soccer player.
  • 12 June - Matthias Lepiller
    Matthias Lepiller
    Matthias Lepiller is a French football striker. He currently plays in Italy for Hellas Verona on loan from Fiorentina.- Career :...

    , soccer player.

July to September

  • 4 July - Angélique Boyer
    Angelique Boyer
    Angelique Boyer is a French-born Mexican actress, model, and singer. She started her career playing secondary roles in the telenovelas Rebelde, Muchachitas como tú, and Corazón Salvaje. In 2010, she was given her first protagonist role in Teresa, a remake of the 1959 telenovela of the same name...

    , actress.
  • 11 July - Étienne Capoue
    Étienne Capoue
    Étienne Capoue is a French football player who currently plays for French club Toulouse in Ligue 1. He can play as either a defensive midfielder or defender. Capoue was a French youth international having earned caps at under-18, under-19, and under-21 level. Capoue served as captain for a portion...

    , soccer player.
  • 8 August - Flavia Bujor
    Flavia Bujor
    Flavia Bujor and is a French novelist of Romanian origin. Her father is a sculptor, her mother is a psychoanalyst who works with young adults and teenagers....

    , novelist.
  • 16 August - Christophe Pourcel
    Christophe Pourcel
    Christophe Pourcel , is a French motocross rider, and winner of the 2006 FIM MX2 World Motocross Championships....

    , motocross
    Motocross
    Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. It evolved from trials, and was called scrambles, and later motocross, combining the French moto with cross-country...

     rider.
  • 18 August - Wilfried Domoraud
    Wilfried Domoraud
    Wilfried Domoraud is a French footballer who plays for Austrian club SV Mattersburg as a striker.-Career:Born in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, Domoraud was previously contracted to French club AS Nancy, but only appeared for their B team...

    , soccer player.
  • 19 August - Kévin Monnet-Paquet
    Kévin Monnet-Paquet
    Kévin Monnet-Paquet is a French football player who currently plays for FC Lorient. He primarily plays as an out and out striker. Monnet-Paquet, who is nicknamed KMP, has represented France at under-18 and under-19 level. He has also appeared for Lens five times in the UEFA Cup...

    , soccer player.
  • 25 August - Malaury Martin, soccer player.
  • 31 August - Rachel Legrain-Trapani
    Rachel Legrain-Trapani
    Rachel Legrain-Trapani was elected Miss France in 2007.http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/people/20061210.OBS2254/rachel-legrain-trapani-elue-miss-france-2007.html Living in Saint-Quentin, she was elected Miss Aisne, and chosen to represent the region of Picardie...

    , Miss France
    Miss France
    Miss France is the trademark of an annual beauty pageant. Rights to the trademark were obtained in 2002 by the Dutch television production company Endemol through its subsidiary Miss France SAS, whose director general is Sylvie Tellier, Miss France 2002. Endemol also holds the rights in France to...

     in 2007.
  • 6 September - Jean-Yves Mvoto, soccer player.
  • 16 September - Kim Lucine
    Kim Lucine
    Kim Lucine is a French figure skater who skates internationally for Monaco. He is the 2003-2005 French national novice champion. He placed 17th at the 2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and is a four-season competitor on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. He is coached by his parents...

    , figure skater.

October to December

  • 12 December - Kévin Bru
    Kévin Bru
    Kévin Bru is a French-born Mauritian footballer who currently plays for US Boulogne in Ligue 2 and for the Mauritius national football team internationally.-Career:...

    , soccer player.
  • 14 December - Nicolas Batum
    Nicolas Batum
    Nicolas Batum is a French basketball player with SLUC Nancy of the Ligue Nationale de Basketball. He is also under contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, and is expected to return to that team once the 2011 NBA lockout ends. The Blazers acquired his rights during the 2008 NBA Draft for the...

    , basketball player.
  • 15 December - Floyd Ayité
    Floyd Ayité
    Floyd Ayité is a French-Togolese offensive midfielder currently playing in France for Angers SCO on loan from Bordeaux.-External links:*...

    , soccer player.

January to March

  • 20 January - Philippe de Rothschild
    Philippe de Rothschild
    Baron Philippe de Rothschild was a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty who became a Grand Prix race-car driver, a screenwriter and playwright, a theatrical producer, a film producer, a poet, and one of the most successful wine growers in the world.-Early life:Born in Paris, Georges Philippe...

    , motor racing driver, scriptwriter, film producer, poet and wine grower (b.1902
    1902 in France
    See also:1901 in France,other events of 1902,1903 in France.----Events from the year 1902 in France.-Events:*13 April - A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.*27 April - Legislative Election held....

    ).
  • 2 February - Alain Savary
    Alain Savary
    Alain Savary was a French Socialist politician, deputy to the National Assembly of France during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party and a government minister in the 1950s and in 1981, when he was nominated by President François Mitterrand as Minister of National...

    , politician and Minister (b.1918
    1918 in France
    See also:1917 in France,other events of 1918,1919 in France.----Events from the year 1918 in France.-Events:*21 March - Second Battle of the Somme begins....

    ).
  • 3 February - René Massigli
    René Massigli
    René Massigli was a French diplomat who played a leading as a senior official at the Quai d'Orsay, and was regarded as one of the leading French experts on Germany.-Early career:...

    , diplomat (b.1888
    1888 in France
    See also:1887 in France,other events of 1888,1889 in France.----Events from the year 1888 in France.-Events:*14 October - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK...

    ).
  • 16 February - Charles Delaunay
    Charles Delaunay
    Charles Delaunay was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France....

    , author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (b.1911
    1911 in France
    See also:1910 in France,other events of 1911,1912 in France.----Events from the year 1911 in France.-Events:*1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir....

    ).
  • 19 February - René Char
    René Char
    René Char was a 20th century French poet.-Biography:Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of four children of Emile Char and Marie-Therese Rouget, where his father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks...

    , poet (b.1907
    1907 in France
    See also:1906 in France,other events of 1907,1908 in France.----Events from the year 1907 in France.-Events:*February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco....

    ).
  • 19 February - André Frédéric Cournand
    André Frédéric Cournand
    André Frédéric Cournand was a French physician and physiologist.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization.Born in Paris, Cournand emigrated to the United States in 1930 and,...

    , physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

     and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     in 1956 (b.1895
    1895 in France
    See also:1894 in France,other events of 1895,1896 in France.----Events from the year 1895 in France.-Events:*5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris....

    ).
  • 6 March - Jeanne Aubert
    Jeanne Aubert
    Jeanne Aubert was a French singer and actress.Born Marguerite Perrinot in Paris, France to an aristocratic father and a former flower girl, she was pushed by her mother into showbusiness. At age five, she began performing on stage at the Théâtre du Châtelet...

    , singer and actress (b.1906
    1906 in France
    See also:1905 in France,other events of 1906,1907 in France.----Events from the year 1906 in France.-Events:*16 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany....

    ).
  • 19 March - Francis Lefebure
    Francis Lefebure
    Dr. Francis Lefebure was a French physician, known for his study of phosphenes.-Early life:Lefebure was born in Paris, France. His mother, Claire de Saint-Rémy, was a famous painter and poet. His father, a lawyer, published a magazine about thermal and tourist laws...

    , physician (b.1916
    1916 in France
    See also:1915 in France,other events of 1916,1917 in France.----Events from the year 1916 in France.-Events:*29 January - Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.*21 February - Battle of Verdun begins....

    ).
  • 21 March - Germain Jousse
    Germain Jousse
    Germain Jousse , was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.-World War I:...

    , member of the French Resistance
    French Resistance
    The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

     (b.1895
    1895 in France
    See also:1894 in France,other events of 1895,1896 in France.----Events from the year 1895 in France.-Events:*5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris....

    ).
  • 30 March - Edgar Faure
    Edgar Faure
    Edgar Faure was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.-Career:Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time...

    , politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (b.1908
    1908 in France
    See also:1907 in France,other events of 1908,1909 in France.----Events from the year 1908 in France.-Events:*12 January - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time....

    ).
  • 31 March - Georges Lévis
    Georges Lévis
    Georges Lévis was a French adult comic artist.Under the name of Jean Sidobre, he was also the illustrator of the French edition of the Famous Five and other children books....

    , comic artist (b.1924
    1924 in France
    See also:1923 in France,other events of 1924,1925 in France.----Events from the year 1924 in France.-Events:*29 March - Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré starts....

    ).

April to June

  • 14 April - Daniel Guérin
    Daniel Guérin
    Daniel Guérin was a French libertarian and author, best known for his work Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, as well as his collection No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism in which he collected writings on the idea and movement it inspired, from the first writings of Max Stirner in the...

    , anarchist
    Anarchism
    Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...

     and author (b.1904
    1904 in France
    See also:1903 in France,other events of 1904,1905 in France.----Events from the year 1904 in France.-Events:*8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.-Sport:...

    ).
  • 18 April - Pierre Desproges
    Pierre Desproges
    Pierre Desproges was a French humorist. He was famous for his elaborate, eloquent and above all, virulent diatribes criticizing anything and everything....

    , humorist (b.1939
    1939 in France
    See also:1938 in France,other events of 1939,1940 in France.----Events from the year 1939 in France.-Events:*27 February - United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government in Spain....

    ).

July to September

  • 15 July - Armand Mouyal
    Armand Mouyal
    Armand Mouyal was a French epee fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Oran, Algeria , Mouyal began fencing in the early 1950s, and was as skilled with the foil as with the épée .-National Championships:Mouyal, a French police officer, captured French national Individual Épée titles in 1952,...

    , epee fencer
    Fencing
    Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

     (b.1925
    1925 in France
    See also:1924 in France,other events of 1925,1926 in France.----Events from the year 1925 in France.-Events:*21 May to 25 october International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble....

    ).
  • 31 July - André Navarra
    André Navarra
    André-Nicolas Navarra was a French cellist and cello teacher.-Early life:...

    , cellist and cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

     teacher (b.1911
    1911 in France
    See also:1910 in France,other events of 1911,1912 in France.----Events from the year 1911 in France.-Events:*1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir....

    ).
  • 1 August - Louis-Jean Guyot
    Louis-Jean Guyot
    Louis-Jean Guyot was a cardinal of the Catholic Church, and archbishop of Toulouse 1966–1978....

    , Cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)
    A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

     (b.1907
    1907 in France
    See also:1906 in France,other events of 1907,1908 in France.----Events from the year 1907 in France.-Events:*February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco....

    ).
  • 11 August - Pauline Lafont
    Pauline Lafont
    Pauline Lafont was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, an Hungarian sculptor....

    , actress (b.1963
    1963 in France
    See also:1962 in France,other events of 1963,1964 in France.----Events from the year 1963 in France.-Events:*22 January - Élysée Treaty signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer....

    ).
  • 11 August - Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
    Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
    Jean-Pierre Ponnelle was a noted French opera director.-Biography:Ponnelle was born in Paris. He studied philosophy, art, and history there and, in 1952, began his career in Germany as a theatre designer for Hans Werner Henze's opera Boulevard Solitude...

    , opera
    Opera
    Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

     director (b.1932
    1932 in France
    See also:1931 in France,other events of 1932,1933 in France.----Events from the year 1932 in France.-Events:*1 May - Legislative Election held.*6 May - Paul Gorguloff assassinates President Paul Doumer in Paris...

    ).
  • 20 August - Jean-Paul Aron
    Jean-Paul Aron
    Jean-Paul Aron was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984. He was an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS, and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the...

    , writer and journalist (b.1925
    1925 in France
    See also:1924 in France,other events of 1925,1926 in France.----Events from the year 1925 in France.-Events:*21 May to 25 october International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in Grenoble....

    ).

October to December

  • 14 October - René Vietto
    René Vietto
    René Vietto was a French road racing cyclist.In the 1934 Tour de France, Vietto, a relative unknown, got wings on the mountains. This was not a surprise, because he had won the Grand Prix Wolber. He was prepared for the Alps and won easily on the steepest terrain...

    , cyclist (b.1914
    1914 in France
    See also:1913 in France,other events of 1914,1915 in France.----Events from the year 1914 in France.-Events:*16 March - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage...

    ).
  • 11 November - Émile Muller
    Émile Muller
    Émile Muller was a French politician from Alsace. He was the candidate of the Democratic Socialist Movement of France in the French presidential election, 1974, where he won only 0.69% of the vote....

    , politician (b.1915
    1915 in France
    See also:1914 in France,other events of 1915,1916 in France.----Events from the year 1915 in France.-Events:*19 January - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.*9 May - Second Battle of Artois starts....

    ).
  • 13 December - André Jaunet
    André Jaunet
    André Jaunet was a flutist in the same genre as Marcel Moyse. In later years well known as a very vivid teacher, living and teaching in Zurich, Switzerland. Among others he taught Peter-Lukas Graf and Aurèle Nicolet....

    , flautist (b.1911
    1911 in France
    See also:1910 in France,other events of 1911,1912 in France.----Events from the year 1911 in France.-Events:*1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir....

    ).

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  • Émile Aillaud
    Émile Aillaud
    Émile Aillaud was a French architect.His design can be found after World War II in France, such as Les Courtilières in Pantin , Wiesberg at Forbach and La Grande Borne at Grigny , are representative of the attempts to compensate for the uniformity which resulted from extensively industrialized...

    , architect (b.1902
    1902 in France
    See also:1901 in France,other events of 1902,1903 in France.----Events from the year 1902 in France.-Events:*13 April - A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.*27 April - Legislative Election held....

    ).
  • Françoise Dolto
    Françoise Dolto
    Françoise Dolto , was a French doctor and psychoanalyst, famous for her research on babies and childhood. Dolto revolutionized the field of psycho-therapeutic work with babies and with the mother baby dyad....

    , physician
    Physician
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     and psychoanalyst (b.1908
    1908 in France
    See also:1907 in France,other events of 1908,1909 in France.----Events from the year 1908 in France.-Events:*12 January - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time....

    ).
  • Pierre Jaïs
    Pierre Jaïs
    Pierre Jaïs was a famous French bridge player. A World Bridge Federation Grand Master, he was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Turin 1960, Bermuda Bowl in Paris 1956, and World Open Pairs Championship in Cannes 1962. He is one of only 10 players who collected the Triple Crown of Bridge...

    , bridge
    Contract bridge
    Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

     player (b.1913
    1913 in France
    See also:1912 in France,other events of 1913,1914 in France.----Events from the year 1913 in France.-Events:*3 February - Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins....

    ).
  • Ernest Labrousse
    Ernest Labrousse
    Camille-Ernest Labrousse was a French historian specializing in social and economic history.Labrousse established a historical model centered on three nodes—economic, social and cultural—inventing the quantitative history sometimes now called "cliometrics"...

    , historian (b.1895
    1895 in France
    See also:1894 in France,other events of 1895,1896 in France.----Events from the year 1895 in France.-Events:*5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris....

    ).
  • Pierre Langlais
    Pierre Langlais
    Pierre Charles Albert Marie Langlais was a French military officer who fought in World War II and Indochina. He is best known as the ad-hoc commander of the French garrison during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.-Early life:...

    , military officer (b.1909
    1909 in France
    See also:1908 in France,other events of 1909,1910 in France.----Events from the year 1909 in France.-Events:*20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro....

    ).
  • Thierry Maulnier
    Thierry Maulnier
    Thierry Maulnier was a French journalist, essayist, dramatist, and literary critic.-Before 1940:...

    , journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (b.1908
    1908 in France
    See also:1907 in France,other events of 1908,1909 in France.----Events from the year 1908 in France.-Events:*12 January - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time....

    ).
  • Serge Mouille
    Serge Mouille
    Serge Mouille was a French industrial designer and goldsmith. He is best known for his light fixture designs.- Biography :...

    , industrial design
    Industrial design
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    er and goldsmith
    Goldsmith
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     (b.1922
    1922 in France
    See also:1921 in France,other events of 1922,1923 in France.----Events from the year 1922 in France.-Events:The year 1922 was signalized at its opening by the conference of Cannes, between France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, which met to consider the situation created by Germany's declaration...

    ).
  • Fernand Mourlot
    Fernand Mourlot
    Fernand Mourlot , son of Jules Mourlot, was the director of Mourlot Studios and founder of Editions Mourlot.- Early life and career :...

    , printer and publisher (b.1895
    1895 in France
    See also:1894 in France,other events of 1895,1896 in France.----Events from the year 1895 in France.-Events:*5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris....

    ).
  • André Neher
    André Neher
    André Neher was a Jewish scholar and philosopher, born 12, rue du Marche, in Obernai, Bas-Rhin. He was a student at the College Freppel in Obernai, then at the Lycee Fustel de Coulange in Strasbourg. He became professor at the College Erckmann-Chatrian in Sarrebourg, then at the Lycee Kleber in...

    , Jewish scholar and philosopher (b.1914
    1914 in France
    See also:1913 in France,other events of 1914,1915 in France.----Events from the year 1914 in France.-Events:*16 March - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage...

    ).
  • Jules Semler-Collery
    Jules Semler-Collery
    Jules Semler-Collery was a French composer, conductor and teacher.Jules Semler-Collery was born in Dunkerque in 1902. His father, a conductor, was his first music teacher. Later he studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won several prizes, and also at the Schola Cantorum...

    , composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    , conductor
    Conducting
    Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

     and teacher (b.1902
    1902 in France
    See also:1901 in France,other events of 1902,1903 in France.----Events from the year 1902 in France.-Events:*13 April - A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.*27 April - Legislative Election held....

    ).
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