1995 in France
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1994 in France
1994 in France
See also:1993 in France,other events of 1994,1995 in France.----Events from the year 1994 in France.-Events:*20 March - Cantonales Elections held.*24 March - Cantonales Elections held....

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other events of 1995,
1996 in France
1996 in France
See also:1995 in France,other events of 1996,1997 in France.----Events from the year 1996 in France.-Incumbents:* President - Jacques Chirac* Prime Minister - Alain Juppé* Interior Minister - Jean-Louis Debré* Finance Minister - Jean Arthuis...

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Events from the year 1995 in France.

Events

  • 21 February - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists.
  • 13 April - Presidential Election held.
  • 7 May - Presidential Election
    French presidential election, 1995
    Presidential elections took place in France on 23 April and 7 May 1995, to elect the fifth president of the Fifth Republic.The incumbent Socialist president, François Mitterrand, did not stand for a third term. He was 78, had cancer, and his party had lost the previous legislative election in a...

     held with Jacques Chirac
    Jacques Chirac
    Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...

     elected as fifth president of the Fifth Republic
    French Fifth Republic
    The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current republican constitution of France, introduced on 4 October 1958. The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the French Fourth Republic, replacing the prior parliamentary government with a semi-presidential system...

    .
  • 11 June - Municipal Elections
    French municipal elections, 1995
    Municipal elections were held in France on 11 and 18 June 1995, more or less than one month after Jacques Chirac's election.The far-right National Front elected 3 mayors in Provence: Toulon, Orange, Marignane. It was the first time the far-right led an executive alone. In other races, Jean Tiberi ...

     held.
  • 13 June - President Jacques Chirac
    Jacques Chirac
    Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...

     announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia
    French Polynesia
    French Polynesia is an overseas country of the French Republic . It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory...

    .
  • 18 June - Municipal Elections
    French municipal elections, 1995
    Municipal elections were held in France on 11 and 18 June 1995, more or less than one month after Jacques Chirac's election.The far-right National Front elected 3 mayors in Provence: Toulon, Orange, Marignane. It was the first time the far-right led an executive alone. In other races, Jean Tiberi ...

     held.
  • 25 July - a gas bottle explodes in the Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame
    St-Michel - Notre-Dame (Paris RER)
    Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame is a station of the Paris RER, serving Line B and Line C. It is named after the nearby St-Michel area and Notre Dame cathedral.The main entrance to the station is in Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the Seine...

     station, killing 8 and wounding 80 people. (see: 1995 Paris Metro bombing)
  • 17 August - a bomb at the Arc de Triomphe
    Arc de Triomphe
    -The design:The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin , in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture . Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot; François Rude; Antoine Étex; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire...

     wounds 17 people.
  • 26 August - a huge bomb is found on the railroad tracks of a high-speed rail line
    TGV
    The TGV is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator....

     near Lyon
    Lyon
    Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

    .
  • 3 September - a bomb malfunctions in a square in Paris, wounding 4.
  • 7 September - a car bomb
    Car bomb
    A car bomb, or truck bomb also known as a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device , is an improvised explosive device placed in a car or other vehicle and then detonated. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupants of the vehicle,...

     at a Jewish school in Lyon wounds 14.
  • 18 September - 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 Renault Megane
    Renault Mégane
    The Renault Mégane is a small family car produced by the French automaker Renault since 1995. It is offered in 3- and 5-door hatchback, saloon, coupé, convertible and estate bodystyles...

    , a range of hatchbacks, saloons, estates, coupes and cabriolets to replace 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...

    .
  • 24 September - Student, Eric Borel
    Eric Borel
    Eric Borel was a French student and spree killer who, at the age of 16, murdered his family in Solliès-Pont in the arrondissement of Toulon on September 23, 1995, and afterwards walked several miles to the village of Cuers where he continued his rampage the next day, shooting dead twelve other...

    , killed 14 people (including his parents) and injured five others, in a rampage in Toulon
    Toulon
    Toulon is a town in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region, Toulon is the capital of the Var department in the former province of Provence....

    , before committing suicide.
  • 27 September-28 September - Bob Denard
    Bob Denard
    Colonel Bob Denard , born Gilbert Bourgeaud, was a French soldier and mercenary. He was known for having done various jobs in support of Françafrique for Jacques Foccart, in charge of French president Charles de Gaulle's policy in Africa...

    's mercenaries
    Mercenary
    A mercenary, is a person who takes part in an armed conflict based on the promise of material compensation rather than having a direct interest in, or a legal obligation to, the conflict itself. A non-conscript professional member of a regular army is not considered to be a mercenary although he...

     capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros
    Comoros
    The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar...

    ; the local army does not resist.
  • 29 September - Khaled Kelkal
    Khaled Kelkal
    Khaled Kelkal was an Algerian terrorist affiliated with the GIA. He was involved in the 1995 terror bombings in France.-Biography :...

    , a leader of the Armed Group (GIA) which carried out the attacks, is killed by EPIGN gendarmerie
    Gendarmerie
    A gendarmerie or gendarmery is a military force charged with police duties among civilian populations. Members of such a force are typically called "gendarmes". The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes a gendarme as "a soldier who is employed on police duties" and a "gendarmery, -erie" as...

     members resisting arrest.
  • October - Peugeot
    Peugeot
    Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...

     launches the 406
    Peugeot 406
    The Peugeot 406 was a large family car made by the French automaker Peugeot from 1995 to 2004. Available in saloon, estate and coupé bodystyles with a choice of petrol or turbodiesel engines, the 406 replaced the Peugeot 405 in Peugeot's lineup, and was itself replaced by the Peugeot 407...

     range of saloons, estates and coupés that replaces the 405
    Peugeot 405
    The Peugeot 405 is a large family car released by the French automaker Peugeot in July 1987 and which continues to be manufactured under licence outside France. It used TU/XU petrol and XUD diesel engines....

    . It also enters the people carrier market with the 806, which will also be sold as the Citroen Synergie
    Citroën Synergie
    The Citroën Synergie, sold in Europe as the Citroën Evasion, was a minivan automobile produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1994 to 2002....

    , Fiat Ulysse and Lancia Z as part of a venture
    Eurovan (PSA/Fiat joint venture)
    The "Eurovans" are a family of large MPVs from the Citroën, Peugeot, Fiat and Lancia badges, built by Sevel at Sevel Nord factory. It was launched in March 1994. Production ceased in November 2010....

     between PSA Peugeot Citroen
    PSA Peugeot Citroën
    PSA Peugeot Citroën is a French manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles sold under the Peugeot and Citroën marques. Headquartered in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, PSA is the second largest automaker based in Europe and the number eight in the world.-History:In December 1974 Peugeot S.A....

     and Fiat
    Fiat
    FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

    .
  • 4 October - France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest Bob Denard
    Bob Denard
    Colonel Bob Denard , born Gilbert Bourgeaud, was a French soldier and mercenary. He was known for having done various jobs in support of Françafrique for Jacques Foccart, in charge of French president Charles de Gaulle's policy in Africa...

     and his mercenaries and take Denard to France; Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.
  • 6 October - a gas bottle explodes in station Maison Blanche of the Paris Métro
    Paris Métro
    The Paris Métro or Métropolitain is the rapid transit metro system in Paris, France. It has become a symbol of the city, noted for its density within the city limits and its uniform architecture influenced by Art Nouveau. The network's sixteen lines are mostly underground and run to 214 km ...

    , wounding 13.
  • 17 October - a gas bottle explodes between the Musée d'Orsay
    Musée d'Orsay
    The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture,...

     and Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame
    St-Michel - Notre-Dame (Paris RER)
    Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame is a station of the Paris RER, serving Line B and Line C. It is named after the nearby St-Michel area and Notre Dame cathedral.The main entrance to the station is in Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the Seine...

     stations, wounding 29.
  • 17 October- French-woman Jeanne Calment
    Jeanne Calment
    Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the...

     reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days making her the oldest person ever recorded.

Sport

  • 9 April - Paris–Roubaix cycle race won by Franco Ballerini
    Franco Ballerini
    Franco Ballerini was an Italian road racing cyclist.Born in Florence, his greatest exploits as a rider came with his two victories in the cycling classic Paris–Roubaix, riding for the Mapei cycling team. In 1993 he was beaten on the line by Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle in an exciting Paris–Roubaix finale...

     of Italy.
  • 1 July - Tour de France
    1995 Tour de France
    The 1995 Tour de France was the 82nd Tour de France, taking place July 1 to July 23, 1995. It was Miguel Indurain's fifth and final victory in the Tour. On the fifteenth stage Italian rider Fabio Casartelli died after an accident on the Col de Portet d'Aspet....

     begins.
  • 2 July - French Grand Prix
    1995 French Grand Prix
    The 1995 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on July 2, 1995 at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours. It was the seventh race of the 1995 Formula One season. Michael Schumacher extended his championship lead over Damon Hill to 11 points. As had happened in many seasons,...

     won by Michael Schumacher
    Michael Schumacher
    Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time...

     of Germany.
  • 23 July - Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain
    Miguel Indurain
    Miguel 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

  • April 1 - Maxence Perrin
    Maxence Perrin
    Maxence Perrin is a French actor, best known for his parts in Les Choristes , Petit homme and For intérieur.He is the son of actor and film producer Jacques Perrin.-Filmography:...

    , actor
  • November 3 - Coline Mattel
    Coline Mattel
    -Career:Coline Mattel made her debut in Ladies Continental Cup in Schonach at the age of 11. In her first Junior World Championships in Tarvisio in 2007 she was placed 18th. In the Junior World Championships 2009 in Strbske Pleso Mattel won the bronze medal in the individual competition.In World...

    , ski jumper
  • November 13 - Léna Marrocco
    Léna Marrocco
    - External links :...

    , figure skater

January to March

  • 21 January - Philippe Casado
    Philippe Casado
    Philippe Casado was French professional road bicycle racer. Born in Oujda, Morocco, he was professional from 1986 until his death in 1995 and had 3 victories...

    , cyclist (b.1964
    1964 in France
    See also:1963 in France,other events of 1964,1965 in France.----Events from the year 1964 in France.-Events:*27 January - France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations....

    ).
  • 26 January - Marcel Bidot
    Marcel Bidot
    Marcel Bidot was a French professional road bicycle racer who won two stages of the Tour de France and became manager of the French national team...

    , cyclist (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....

    ).
  • 27 January - Jean Tardieu
    Jean Tardieu
    Jean Tardieu was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author. He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publishing house. He published several poetry collections in the 1930s before starting to write for the stage...

    , artist, musician, poet and author (b.1903
    1903 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 1 February - François Boutin
    François Boutin
    François Boutin was a French Thoroughbred horse trainer. The son of a farmer, he was born in the village of Beaunay in the northerly Seine Maritime département. He began riding horses at a young age and competed in show jumping and cross-country equestrianism...

    , Thoroughbred
    Thoroughbred
    The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

     horse trainer
    Horse trainer
    In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

     (b.1937
    1937 in France
    See also:1936 in France,other events of 1937,1938 in France.----Events from the year 1937 in France.-Events:*1 May - General strike in Paris.*21 June - Coalition government of Léon Blum resigns.-Sport:*30 June - Tour de France begins....

    ).
  • 2 February - André Frossard
    André Frossard
    -Biography:Frossard was born in Saint-Maurice-Colombier, Doubs to Louis-Oscar Frossard, one of the historic founders of the Parti communiste français, who was leader of the party for 31 years. His parents raised him an atheist, but when he was 20 years old he converted to Roman Catholicism. He was...

    , journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and essayist (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 March - Odette Sansom
    Odette Sansom
    Odette Sansom Hallowes GC, MBE, Chevalier de la légion d'honneur was an Allied heroine of the Second World War.-Early years:...

    , World War II heroine (b.1912
    1912 in France
    See 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....

    ).

April to June

  • 5 April - Christian Pineau
    Christian Pineau
    Christian Pineau was a noted French Resistance fighter.He was born in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France and died in Paris.His father-in-law was the writer Jean Giraudoux, who was married to Pineau's mother...

    , 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...

     leader and politician (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 May - Henri Laborit
    Henri Laborit
    Henri Laborit was a French physician, writer and philosopher.Laborit was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and started his career as a neurosurgeon in the Marines and then moved on to fundamental research. He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957...

    , physician, writer 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...

    ).
  • 25 May - Élie Bayol
    Élie Bayol
    Élie Marcel Bayol was a French racing driver who raced in Formula One for the O.S.C.A. and Gordini teams. He started his career in 1950 racing 500cc Formula 3 DB-Panhards and progressed to Formula 2 races and hillclimbs around France. His best result was a fourth place in the Circuit de Cadours,...

    , motor racing driver (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...

    ).
  • May - Paul Bonneau
    Paul Bonneau
    Paul Bonneau was a French composer of classical music.-Career:...

    , composer (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....

    ).
  • 2 June - Alexandre de Marenches
    Alexandre de Marenches
    Count Alexandre de Marenches was a French military officer.During the Second World War, Count de Marenches was aide de camp to General Juin...

    , military officer (b.1921
    1921 in France
    See also:1920 in France,other events of 1921,1922 in France.----Events from the year 1921 in France.-Events:Before touching on the principal events which took place in France in the course of the year 1921, it is necessary to recall one or two of the outstanding facts of 1920 in France.The most...

    ).
  • 3 June - Jean-Patrick Manchette
    Jean-Patrick Manchette
    Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties. His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society...

    , novelist (b.1942
    1942 in France
    1941 in France,other events of 1942,1943 in France.----Events from the year 1942 in France.-Events:*19 February - Riom Trial begins, attempt by Vichy France regime to prove that the leaders of the French Third Republic had been responsible for France's defeat by Germany in 1940.*28 March - British...

    ).
  • 22 June - Yves Congar
    Yves Congar
    Yves Marie Joseph Congar was a French Dominican cardinal and theologian.-Early life:Born in Sedan, in northeast France, in 1904, Congar's home was occupied by the Germans for much of World War I...

    , priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

     and theologian
    Theology
    Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

     (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:...

    ).
  • 23 June - Henri de Laulanie
    Henri de Laulanie
    Henri de Laulanie was a French Jesuit father who was responsible for the rice cultivation method known as the System of Rice Intensification ....

    , Jesuit priest and agriculturalist (b.1920
    1920 in France
    See 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...

    ).
  • 27 June - Jacques Berque
    Jacques Berque
    Jacques Augustin Berque was a French Islamic scholar and sociologist. His expertise was the decolonisation of Algeria and Morocco.-Biography:...

    , Islamic scholar and sociologist
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

     (b.1910
    1910 in France
    See also:1909 in France,other events of 1910,1911 in France.----Events from the year 1910 in France.-Events:*16 January - Constant rain in Paris causes the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city...

    ).

July to September

  • 12 July - Jules Henri Saiset
    Jules Henri Saiset
    Jules Henri Saiset was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and critic.Saiset was born in Paris. When he was 15 months old, his father died of a fever....

    , existentialist
    Existentialism
    Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...

     philosopher, dramatist
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    , novelist, and critic
    Literary criticism
    Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...

     (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....

    ).
  • 15 July - Robert-Joseph Coffy
    Robert-Joseph Coffy
    Robert Joseph Coffy was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille.-Early life and education:He entered the Seminary in Lyon and was ordained to the priesthood 28 October 1944. He carried out pastoral work in Annecy for a year in 1946. He taught as a faculty member where he had been...

    , Roman Catholic 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.1920
    1920 in France
    See 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...

    ).
  • 19 July - René Privat
    René Privat
    René Privat is a former French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1952 to 1962 with 19 wins which included the classic Milan – San Remo...

    , cyclist (b.1930
    1930 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 23 July - Fabien Galateau
    Fabien Galateau
    Fabien Galateau was a French professional road bicycle racer. His brother Gabriel Galateau was also a cyclist. During the Tour de Frances of 1938 and 1939, Fabien Galateau won two stages.- Palmarès :...

    , cyclist (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....

    ).
  • 29 July - Philippe De Lacy
    Philippe De Lacy
    Philippe De Lacy a.k.a. Philippe deLacy was a former silent film era child actor.-Early life:Born during World War I, the already fatherless Philippe lost his mother and five siblings when a German shell devastated the family home...

    , actor (b.1917
    1917 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 6 August - André Fleury, 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...

    , pianist
    Pianist
    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

     and organist
    Organist
    An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...

     (b.1903
    1903 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 11 August - Marcel Moussy
    Marcel Moussy
    Marcel Moussy was a French screenwriter and television director. He was co-nominated with François Truffaut for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film The 400 Blows ....

    , screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters 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:...

     and television director
    Television director
    A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

     (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....

    ).
  • 19 August - Pierre Schaeffer
    Pierre Schaeffer
    Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...

    , composer, inventor of musique concrète
    Musique concrète
    Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

     (b.1910
    1910 in France
    See also:1909 in France,other events of 1910,1911 in France.----Events from the year 1910 in France.-Events:*16 January - Constant rain in Paris causes the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city...

    ).
  • 22 August - Gilles Andruet
    Gilles Andruet
    Gilles Andruet was a French chess player, International Master and France champion . He is the son of rally driver Jean-Claude Andruet.-Chess career:...

    , chess player (b.1958
    1958 in France
    See also:1957 in France,other events of 1958,1959 in France.----Events from the year 1958 in France.-Events:*13 May - Crisis caused by putsch attempt in Algiers involving French officers....

    ).
  • 29 August - Pierre Max Dubois
    Pierre Max Dubois
    Pierre Max Dubois was a French composer of classical music. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected. He brought the ideas of Les Six, of which his instructor was a member, into the middle 1900's. This group called for a fresh artistic perspective on music...

    , composer (b.1930
    1930 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 4 September - Edmond Jouhaud
    Edmond Jouhaud
    Edmond Jouhaud was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa. After the failure of the putsch, he became the deputy of Raoul Salan in the Organisation de l'Armée Secrète...

    , one of four generals who staged the Algiers putsch of 1961 (b.1905
    1905 in France
    See 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....

    ).
  • 24 September - Eric Borel
    Eric Borel
    Eric Borel was a French student and spree killer who, at the age of 16, murdered his family in Solliès-Pont in the arrondissement of Toulon on September 23, 1995, and afterwards walked several miles to the village of Cuers where he continued his rampage the next day, shooting dead twelve other...

    , spree killer
    Spree killer
    A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."-Definition:According to the...

     (b.1978
    1978 in France
    See also:1977 in France,other events of 1978,1979 in France.----Events from the year 1978 in France.-Events:*1 February - Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.*12 March - Legislative...

    ).

October to December

  • 7 October - Gérard de Vaucouleurs
    Gérard de Vaucouleurs
    -External links:* * http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/normal_galaxies.html-Other resources:...

    , astronomer
    Astronomer
    An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

     (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....

    ).
  • 19 October - André Lalande
    André Lalande (soldier)
    André Lalande was an officer in the Chasseurs Alpins and in the French Foreign Legion.He was a Breton who studied at the French military academy, the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr from 1931 to 1933 and was posted 2nd Lieutenant at Metz.In 1937 he requested a transfer to the 6th Bataillon...

    , military officer (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....

    ).
  • 4 November - Gilles Deleuze
    Gilles Deleuze
    Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...

    , philosopher (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....

    ).
  • 23 November - Louis Malle
    Louis Malle
    Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...

    , film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     (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...

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Adrien Goybet
    Adrien Goybet
    Adrien Goybet was born in 1922, the son of Admiral Pierre Goybet and grandson of General Mariano Goybet. He served as chef de bataillon in the Fusiliers Marins...

    , Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor (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...

    ).
  • Jean-Yves Couliou
    Jean-Yves Couliou
    -Biography:Couliou was born in Landerneau, Finistère, France, and spent his youth in the neighbourhood of Pont-Aven, the village of his parents. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Rennes, Académies et Écoles Nationales Supérieures des Arts Décoratifs, des Arts Appliqués and the Beaux-Arts...

    , painter (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....

    ).
  • Gilbert Martineau
    Gilbert Martineau
    Gilbert Martineau was a French naval officer, author of books on Napoleon and his family, honorary consul, and curator of the French properties on St Helena, 1956-1987....

    , author and curator of the French properties on St Helena (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....

    ).
  • René Zazzo
    René Zazzo
    René Zazzo was a French psychologist and pedagogue.The essence of Zazzo's research related to child psychology. He was one of the first people to study a group of problems relating to dyslexia and disability...

    , psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

     (b.1910
    1910 in France
    See also:1909 in France,other events of 1910,1911 in France.----Events from the year 1910 in France.-Events:*16 January - Constant rain in Paris causes the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city...

    ).
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