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1970 in France
Summary
Events from the year
1970
in
France
.
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Decades:
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See also:
Other events of 1970
History of France
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
President
:
Georges Pompidou
Prime Minister
:
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Events
edit
10 February – An
avalanche
at
Val d'Isère
kills 39 tourists.
8 March –
Cantonales Elections
held.
15 March –
Cantonales Elections
held.
25 March –
Concorde
makes its first
supersonic flight
(700 mph/1127 km/h).
11 April – 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an
avalanche
buries a
tuberculosis
sanatorium
in the
French Alps
.
19 May –
Barbapapa
was created by
Annette Tison
and
Talus Taylor
.
6 October – President
Georges Pompidou
visits the Soviet Union.
11 October – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in
Chad
.
1 November –
Club Cinq-Sept fire
in
Saint-Laurent-du-Pont
,
Isère
, kills 146.
Undated
Citroen
launches two new models: the
GS
family saloon and estate, and the
SM
sporting coupe. The Citroen GS is voted
European Car of the Year
.
[1]
Establishment of
Parc naturel régional de Camargue
.
Sport
edit
27 June –
Tour de France
begins.
19 July – Tour de France ends, won by
Eddy Merckx
of
Belgium
.
Births
edit
January to March
edit
10 January –
Christine Malèvre
,
serial killer
.
28 January –
Laurent Levesque
,
film score
composer
.
29 January –
Olivier Edmond
, golfer.
3 February –
Franck Gava
, soccer player.
6 February –
Patrice Loko
, soccer player.
14 February –
Guillaume Raoux
, tennis player.
17 February –
Philippe Bernat-Salles
, international rugby union player.
4 March –
Amélie Sarn
, author, comic book writer and translator.
7 March –
Nathalie Lancien
, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist.
12 March –
Marine Delterme
,
actress
,
painter
,
sculptor
and former
model
.
13 March –
Stéphane Goubert
, cyclist.
21 March –
Franck David
, sailor and Olympic gold medallist.
27 March –
Gedeon Naudet
, filmmaker.
28 March –
Benjamin Castaldi
, television personality
April to June
edit
10 April –
Christophe Honoré
, writer and film director.
14 April –
Richard Sainct
,
Rally
Raid
Motorcycle
rider (d.2004).
15 April –
Luc Marquet
, volleyball player.
24 April –
Jean-Philippe Belloc
, motor racing driver.
3 May –
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
, tennis player.
5 May –
Laurent Crost
,
judoka
.
13 May –
Wilfrid Boulineau
,
decathlete
.
21 May –
Pierre Billaud
, radio reporter and journalist, killed in
Afghanistan
(d.2001).
22 May –
Guillaume Warmuz
, soccer player.
15 June –
Gaëlle Méchaly
,
soprano
.
18 June –
Ludovic Pollet
, soccer player.
27 June –
Régine Cavagnoud
,
alpine skier
(d.2001).
27 June –
Christophe Deguerville
, soccer player.
30 June –
Emmanuel Mouret
, actor, director and screenwriter
July to September
edit
9 July –
Benoit Pierre Emery
,
fashion designer
.
18 August –
Cédric Vasseur
, cyclist.
20 August –
Loïc De Kergret
, volleyball player.
28 August –
Loïc Leferme
, free diver (d.2007).
3 September –
Franck Chambilly
,
judoka
.
6 September –
Stéphane Guivarc'h
, international soccer player.
9 September –
Pierre Laigle
, soccer player.
10 September –
Julie Halard-Decugis
, tennis player.
18 September –
Didier Rous
, cyclist.
22 September –
Emmanuel Petit
, soccer player.
October to December
edit
23 October –
Stéphane Nomis
,
judoka
.
27 October –
Alain Boghossian
, soccer player.
5 November –
Laurent D'Jaffo
, soccer player.
11 November –
Gilles Grimandi
, soccer player.
15 November –
Franck Rabarivony
, soccer player.
25 November –
Bruno Girard
, boxer.
13 December –
Pierre Laurent
, soccer player.
15 December –
Corinne Favre
,
ski mountaineer
and
mountain runner
.
30 December –
Frédéric Tatarian
, soccer player.
Full date unknown
edit
Julien Lourau
, jazz saxophonist.
Vincent Paronnaud
,
comics artist
and
filmmaker
.
Deaths
edit
January to March
edit
4 January –
Jean-Étienne Valluy
, general (b. 1899).
8 January –
Georges Guibourg
, French actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1891)
20 January –
François Tanguy-Prigent
, politician and resistance fighter (b. 1909).
25 January –
Jane Bathori
, opera singer (b. 1877).
29 January –
Marie-Laure de Noailles
, patron of the arts (b. 1902).
1 February –
Eugène Christophe
, cyclist (b. 1885).
20 February –
Gaston Modot
, actor (b. 1887).
17 March –
Jérôme Carcopino
, historian and author (b. 1881).
22 March –
Georges Malkine
, painter (b. 1898).
April to June
edit
10 April –
Henri Marchal
, archaeologist (b. 1876).
22 May –
Georges Limbour
, writer (b. 1900).
23 May –
René Capitant
, lawyer and politician (b. 1901).
2 June –
Albert Lamorisse
, filmmaker, producer and writer (b. 1922).
6 June –
Camille Bombois
,
naïve painter
(b. 1883).
15 June –
Henri Queuille
,
Radical-Socialist
politician and
Prime Minister of France
(b. 1884).
16 June –
Elsa Triolet
, writer (b. 1896).
27 June –
Pierre Mac Orlan
, novelist and songwriter (b. 1882).
July to September
edit
10 July –
Félix Gaillard
,
Radical
politician and
Prime Minister of France
(b. 1919).
11 July –
André Lurçat
, architect (b. 1894).
19 July –
Henri Lauvaux
, athlete and Olympic medallist (b. 1900).
30 July –
Jean d'Eaubonne
,
art director
(b. 1903).
5 August –
Lucien Lamoureux
, politician and Minister (b. 1888).
25 August –
Marcel Allain
, writer (b. 1885).
1 September –
François Mauriac
,
author
, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Literature
(b. 1885).
2 September –
Marie Pierre Kœnig
, general and politician (b. 1898).
5 September –
André Simon
, wine merchant, gourmet and writer (b. 1877).
23 September –
Bourvil
, actor and singer (b. 1917).
October to December
edit
8 October –
Jean Giono
, author (b. 1895).
9 October –
Edmond Michelet
, politician (b. 1899).
10 October –
Édouard Daladier
,
Radical-Socialist
politician and
Prime Minister of France
(b. 1884).
18 October –
Jean De Briac
, actor (b. 1891).
2 November –
Pierre Veyron
, motor racing driver (b. 1903).
6 November –
Henri Jeanson
,
writer
and
journalist
(b. 1900).
9 November –
Charles de Gaulle
, general, statesman, President (b. 1890).
1 December –
Hermine David
, painter (b. 1886).
7 December –
Émile Girardeau
, engineer (b. 1882).
16 December –
Laurent Eynac
, politician and Minister (b. 1886).
18 December –
Marc Boegner
, theologist, pastor,
French Resistance
member and essayist (d.1881).
Full date unknown
edit
Lucienne Abraham
,
Trotskyist
politician
(b. 1916).
Maurice Lafforgue
,
alpine skier
(b. 1913).
See also
edit
List of French films of 1970
References
edit
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"Citroen gs".