1992 in France
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Events from the year 1992 in France.
1991 in France
1991 in France
See also:1990 in France,other events of 1991,1992 in France.----Events from the year 1991 in France.-Events:*16 March - Citroën launches it compact ZX range of hatchbacks and estates...
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other events of 1992,
1993 in France
1993 in France
See also:1992 in France,other events of 1993,1994 in France.----Events from the year 1993 in France.-Events:*18 February - Peugeot launches the 306 range of hatchbacks, estates, convertibles and saloons, which will mainly be built at Peugeot's factory near Coventry in England, which was formerly...
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Events from the year 1992 in France.
Events
- 22 March - Regional ElectionsFrench regional elections, 1992Regional elections were held in France on 22 March 1992. At stake were the presidencies of each of France's 26 régions, which, though they don't have legislative autonomy, manage sizeable budgets. The parliamentary right, led by the conservative Rally for the Republic and the centre-right Union for...
held. - 22 March - Cantonales Elections held.
- 29 March - Cantonales Elections held.
- 12 April - Euro Disney resort and theme park opens to the east of ParisParisParis 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...
. - 20 September - Maastricht Treaty referendumFrench Maastricht Treaty referendum, 1992A referendum on the Maastricht Treaty was held in France on 20 September 1992. It was approved by just over 51% of the voters. The result of the referendum, known as the "petit oui", along with the Danish "No" vote are considered to be signals of the end of the "permissive consensus" on European...
held, with a small majority in favour of ratification of the Maastricht TreatyMaastricht TreatyThe Maastricht Treaty was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands. On 9–10 December 1991, the same city hosted the European Council which drafted the treaty...
. - 8 October - Launch of the Renault TwingoRenault TwingoThe Renault Twingo is a city car built by French automaker Renault, first presented at the Paris Motor Show in September 1992 and sold in continental European markets beginning in 1993...
, an entry level car which takes on a ground-breaking one-box design and will compete with the likes of the new Fiat CinquecentoFiat CinquecentoThe Fiat Cinquecento was a city car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro launched by Fiat in late 1991 to replace the Fiat 126. It was the first Fiat model to be solely manufactured in the FSM plant in Tychy, Poland, which had been sold to Fiat by the Polish state, and where production of the Polish...
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Arts and literature
- 9 April - Jean-François DeniauJean-François DeniauJean-François Deniau was a French statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist. He was until 1998 a member of the UDF .-Minister and diplomat:...
, essayist and novelist, elected to the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
. - 12 April - Disneyland Paris officially opens under the name "EuroDisney".
- 20 December - The Folies Bergère music hall in Paris closes.
Sport
- 8 February - The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics1992 Winter OlympicsThe 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 8 to 23 February 1992 in Albertville, France. They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter Paralympics...
is held in AlbertvilleAlbertvilleAlbertville is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.The town is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics.-Geography:...
. - 23 February - The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics1992 Winter OlympicsThe 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 8 to 23 February 1992 in Albertville, France. They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter Paralympics...
is held. - 5 May - Armand Césari Stadium disasterArmand Césari Stadium disasterThe Armand Césari Stadium disaster happened at Bastia on the French island of Corsica at the Stade Armand Cesari, on 5 May 1992. 18 people were killed when one of the terraces collapsed....
in BastiaBastiaBastia is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It is also the second-largest city in Corsica after Ajaccio and the capital of the department....
, CorsicaCorsicaCorsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
, when one of the terraces collapsed, killing 18 people. - 4 July - Tour de France1992 Tour de FranceThe 1992 Tour de France was the 79th Tour de France, taking place July 4 to July 26, 1992. The total race distance was 21 stages over 3983 km, with riders averaging 39.504 km/h...
begins. - 5 July - French Grand Prix1992 French Grand PrixThe 1992 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Magny-Cours on July 5, 1992. It was the eighth round of the 1992 Formula One season.-Race:A lorry driver blockade meant the Andrea Moda Formula team did not appear at this race...
won by Nigel MansellNigel MansellNigel Ernest James Mansell OBE is a British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the CART Indy Car World Series...
of the United Kingdom. - 26 July - Tour de France ends, won by Miguel IndurainMiguel IndurainMiguel Ángel Indurain Larraya is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. He won five consecutive Tour de Frances from 1991 and 1995, the first to do so, and the fourth athlete to win five times. He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of only seven people in history to achieve the Giro Tour...
of Spain.
Births
- 22 January - Benjamin JeannotBenjamin JeannotBenjamin Jeannot is a French football player who currently plays for French club Nancy in Ligue 1. He plays as a striker and is a French youth international having starred for his nation at under-16, under-17, and under-18 level...
, footballer - 21 February - Gauthier MahotoGauthier MahotoÉric Gauthier Mahoto is a French footballer of Congolese descent.-Club career:Mahoto started his footballing career in France whilst playing for Le Havre. He also attended the French Football Federation's INF Clairefontaine academy. He got a growing reputation as a talented midfielder, which led...
, footballer - 25 February - Anaïg ButelAnaïg ButelAnaïg Butel is a French football player who currently plays for French club Juvisy of the Division 1 Féminine. Butel plays as a defender that is also capable of playing as a midfielder. She has starred for several youth women's international teams for France...
, footballer - 3 March - Sega KeitaSega KeitaSega Keïta is a French football player of Senegalese descent who currently plays for French club Troyes in Ligue 2. He is a French youth international and is currently playing on the under-19 team...
, footballer - 10 March - Neeskens KebanoNeeskens KebanoNeeskens Kebano is a French football player who currently plays for French club Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1. He plays as an attacking midfielder and a winger and is described by his club as an "explosive player" with "good technical ability". Kebano is a French youth international having earned...
, footballer - 30 March - Abdoulaye DialloAbdoulaye DialloAbdoulaye Diallo is a French football player of Senegalese and Guinean descent who currently plays for Ligue 1 club Rennes. He is a former graduate of the prestigious Clairefontaine academy and joined Rennes in 2007...
, footballer - 31 March - William GrosWilliam GrosWilliam Joseph Gros is a French professional footballer who plays for Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock, as a striker.-Career:...
, footballer - 29 April - Gaël N’LunduluGaël N’LunduluGaël N'Lundulu is a French professional footballer of Congolese descent who plays as a forward for Lausanne-Sport.-Career:N'Lundulu first began his footballing career in his hometown with Paris Saint-Germain. By age 16 however he was ready to move on and sign professional terms with a team away...
, footballer - 30 April - Mike CestorMike CestorMike Cestor Botuli is a French professional footballer currently playing for Leyton Orient, as a defender....
, footballer - 14 May - Anthony DerouardAnthony DerouardAnthony Derouard is a French football player who currently plays for French club Le Mans in Ligue 2. He plays as a striker and is a France youth international having earned caps at under-18 and under-19 level...
, footballer - 9 June - Yannick AgnelYannick AgnelYannick Agnel is a French swimmer and national record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle . At the 2010 European Aquatics Championships, Agnel won three medals, including gold in the 400 m freestyle...
, swimmer - 20 June - Léopold BellangerLéopold Bellanger- Theater :* Oscar by Claude Magnier * Piège pour un homme seul by Robert Thomas * Frou-Frou les Bains by Patrick Haudecoeur * Feu la mère de Madame by Georges Feydeau ...
, actor - 22 June - Terence MakengoTerence MakengoTerence "Terry" Makengo is a French football player of Congolese descent who currently plays for Monégasque club Monaco in Ligue 1. He is the son of former professional football player Sabhou Makengo. He plays as a striker and is a former graduate of the Clairefontaine academy...
, footballer - 7 August - Vauvenargues KehiVauvenargues KehiVauvenargues Kéhi is a French-born Ivorian football player who currently plays as a goalkeeper for French club Strasbourg in the Championnat de France amateur 2. He is a former French youth international and served as the team's goalkeeper at under-16 level...
, footballer - 4 September - Layvin KurzawaLayvin KurzawaLayvin Kurzawa is a French football player who currently plays for Monégasque club Monaco in Ligue 1. He plays as an attacking left back. Kurzawa is a French youth international and has earned caps with the under-19 team. He made his professional debut on 22 September 2010 in a Coupe de la Ligue...
, footballer - 12 September - Gilbert ImbulaGilbert ImbulaGilbert Imbula Wanga, known as Gilbert Imbula is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Ligue 2 for En Avant de Guingamp...
, footballer - 15 September - Camélia JordanaCamélia JordanaCamélia Jordana Aliouane is a French pop singer. She rose to fame after participating in the television show Nouvelle Star, the French version of Pop Idol, in 2009, where she came third.- Biography:...
, pop singer - 2 December - Massadio HaïdaraMassadio HaïdaraMassadio Haïdara is a French football player of Senegalese descent who plays for French club Nancy in Ligue 1. He plays as a left back and made his professional debut on 11 December 2010 in a league match against Sochaux...
, footballer - 24 December - Serge AurierSerge AurierSerge Aurier is a French footballer of Ivorian descent currently playing for RC Lens in Ligue 1.-Career:Aurier made his professional debut on 13 January 2009 in a Coupe de la Ligue match against Lorient.-References:...
, footballer
January to June
- 21 January - Bernard Cornut-GentilleBernard Cornut-GentilleBernard Cornut-Gentille was a French administrator and politician.Born in Brest, Finistère, Cornut-Gentille studied at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. In 1943 he was appointed as the Subprefect of Reims, but resigned to assist the Free French delegate Émile Bollaert...
, administrator and politician (b.19091909 in FranceSee 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....
). - 1 February - Jean HamburgerJean HamburgerJean Hamburger was a French physician, surgeon and essayist. He is particularly known for his contribution to nephrology, and for having performed the first renal transplantation in France in 1952.-Biography:...
, physician, surgeon and essayist (b.19091909 in FranceSee 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....
). - 20 February - Pierre DervauxPierre DervauxPierre Dervaux was a French operatic conductor, composer, and pedagogue. At the Conservatoire de Paris, he studied counterpoint and harmony with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau and Jean and Noël Gallon, as well as piano with Isidor Philipp, Armand Ferté, and Yves Nat...
, operaOperaOpera 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...
tic conductor and composerComposerA 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...
(b.19171917 in FranceSee also:1916 in France,other events of 1917,1918 in France.----Events from the year 1917 in France.-Events:*9 April - Battle of Arras, a British offensive, begins....
). - 14 March - Jean PoiretJean PoiretJean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992...
, actor, director and screenwriter (b.19261926 in FranceSee also:1925 in France,other events of 1926,1927 in France.----Events from the year 1926 in France.-Events:*9 May - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots....
). - 16 March - Yves RocardYves RocardYves-André Rocard was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.After obtaining a double doctorate in mathematics and physics he was awarded the professorship in electronic physics at the École normale supérieure in Paris.As a member of a Resistance group during the Second...
, physicist (b.19031903 in FranceSee also:1902 in France,other events of 1903,1904 in France.----Events from the year 1903 in France.-Events:*10 August - Paris Métro train fire kills 84 people mostly at Couronnes station.-Sport:*1 July - First Tour de France begins....
). - 20 March - Georges DelerueGeorges DelerueGeorges Delerue , was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for A...
, film composerComposerA 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...
(b.19251925 in FranceSee 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....
). - 30 March - Amédée FournierAmédée FournierAmédée Fournier was a French professional road bicycle racer. In 1932 he won a silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in team pursuit.- Palmarès :193219381939- External links :...
, cyclist (b.19121912 in FranceSee also:1911 in France,other events of 1912,1913 in France.----Events from the year 1912 in France.-Events:*7 March - Aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours....
). - 27 April - Olivier MessiaenOlivier MessiaenOlivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
, composer, organist and ornithologist (b.19081908 in FranceSee 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....
). - 5 May - Jean-Claude PascalJean-Claude PascalJean-Claude Pascal was a French comedian and singer.After surviving the Second World War in Straßburg, Pascal first studied at the Sorbonne-university and then turned to fashion-designing for Christian Dior...
, costume designer and singer (b.19271927 in FranceSee also:1926 in France,other events of 1927,1928 in France.----Events from the year 1927 in France.-Events:*20 May-21 May - First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh....
). - 30 June - André HébuterneAndré HébuterneAndré Hébuterne, born September 3, 1894 - died Paris, June 30, 1992, was a French painter.Born in Meaux, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France, moved with his family to Paris where as a young man began to pursue a career in art...
, painter (b.18941894 in FranceSee also:1893 in France,other events of 1894,1895 in France.----Events from the year 1894 in France.-Events:* 15 February - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, England with a bomb.* 14 May - Meteor shower in Southern France.* 22...
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July to December
- 24 July - ArlettyArlettyArletty was a French actress, singer, and fashion model.-Life and career:Arletty was born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat in Courbevoie , to a working-class family. Her early career was dominated by the music hall, and she later appeared in plays and cabaret. Arletty was a stage performer for ten years...
, singer and actress (b.18981898 in FranceSee also:1897 in France,other events of 1898,1899 in France.----Events from the year 1898 in France.-Events:*13 January - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair....
). - 2 August - Michel BergerMichel BergerMichel Berger , born Michel Jean Hamburger, was a very successful French singer and songwriter. He was a central figure of France's pop music scene for two decades both as a singer and as a songwriter for well-known French artists like his wife France Gall, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday...
, singer and songwriter (b.19471947 in FranceSee also:1946 in France,other events of 1947,1948 in France.----Events from the year 1947 in France.-Events:*16 January - Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as President of France....
). - 19 August - Jean-Albert GrégoireJean-Albert GrégoireJean-Albert Grégoire was one of the great pioneers of the front-wheel drive car. He contributed to the development of front wheel drive vehicles in two ways...
, car pioneer (b.18991899 in FranceSee also:1898 in France,other events of 1899,1900 in France.----Events from the year 1899 in France.-Events:*16 April - Battle of Lougou, French victory in Niger....
). - 29 August - Félix GuattariFélix GuattariPierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy...
, militantMilitantThe word militant, which is both an adjective and a noun, usually is used to mean vigorously active, combative and aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in 'militant reformers'. It comes from the 15th century Latin "militare" meaning "to serve as a soldier"...
, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher (b.19301930 in FranceSee also:1929 in France,other events of 1930,1931 in France.----Events from the year 1930 in France.-Events:*10 February - Yen Bai mutiny takes place, an uprising by Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army's garrison in Yen Bai....
). - 16 September - Henri LegayHenri LegayHenri Legay was a French operatic tenor. He was primarily French-based as his light lyric voice was especially suited to the French operatic repertoire....
, operatic tenorTenorThe tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
(b.19201920 in FranceSee also:1919 in France,other events of 1920,1921 in France.----Events from the year 1920 in France.-Events:At the opening of the year 1920, France was in a stronger position than she had been in for several generations...
). - 15 October - Paul PaillolePaul PailloleFormer French secret service chief Paul Paillole was born in the Breton town of Rennes on 18 November 1905. He died on 15 October 2002 in the Bichat hospital in Paris...
, soldier (b.19051905 in FranceSee also:1904 in France,other events of 1905,1906 in France.----Events from the year 1905 in France.-Events:*31 March - German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis....
). - 29 November - Jean DieudonnéJean DieudonnéJean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of...
, mathematician (b.19061906 in FranceSee 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....
). - 29 November - Raoul PloquinRaoul PloquinRaoul Ploquin was a French film producer, production manager and screenwriter. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Sheep Has Five Legs .-Selected filmography:...
, film producerFilm producerA film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
, production manager and screenwriterScreenwriterScreenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. - 10 December - Jacques PerretJacques Perret (writer)Jacques Perret was a French writer best known for his novel Le Caporal Épinglé , which tells the story of his captivity in Germany and of his escape attempts. This novel would later be adapted into a film by famous French director Jean Renoir in 1962...
, writer (b.19011901 in FranceSee also:1900 in France,other events of 1901,1902 in France.----Events from the year 1901 in France.-Arts and literature:*17 March - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.-Sport:...
). - 23 December - Vincent FourcadeVincent FourcadeVincent Gabriel Fourcade was a French interior designer and the business and life partner of Robert Denning...
, interior designer (b.19341934 in FranceSee also:1933 in France,other events of 1934,1935 in France.----Events from the year 1934 in France.-Events:*6 February - an anti-parliamentarist demonstration organised in Paris by far-right leagues, finished in a riot and led to a political crisis.*9 February - Gaston Doumergue forms a new...
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- Jules GrosJules GrosJules Gros, Jul Marcel Gros was a Breton linguist specializing in popular language. He was born in Paris.Gros' collecting, from his grandmother and other people in his village of Lokémo, began very early at beginning of the twentieth century. At this time there were still unilingual Breton speakers...
, BretonBrittanyBrittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
linguist (b.18901890 in FranceSee also:1889 in France,other events of 1890,1891 in France.----Events from the year 1890 in France.-Events:*2 January - Steamship Persia wrecked off Corsica: 130 lives lost.*21 February - First Franco-Dahomean War begins....
). - Bernard LefebvreBernard LefebvreBernard Lefebvre, known as Ellebé, is a French photographer . He was a member of the Rouen Academy, and president of the Rouen Photo-club from 1937-1941 and 1951-1977.-Works:...
, photographer (b.19061906 in FranceSee 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....
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