1972 in France

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Events from the year 1972 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Georges Pompidou
  • Prime Minister: Jacques Chaban-Delmas (until 5 July),[1] Pierre Messmer (starting 6 July)

Events[]

  • January - Launch of the Renault 5, one of the world's first small hatchbacks.[2]
  • 23 April - French European Economic Community enlargement referendum, voters approved the accession of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, and Norway to the EEC.
  • 16 June - 108 die as two passenger trains hit debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons.
  • 1 July - Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
  • 5 July - President Pompidou dismisses prime minister Chaban-Delmas following rumours of financial misdoing.[1]
  • October - The Peugeot 104, the smallest four-door car in the world, is launched.[3]
  • 28 October - The first flight of the Airbus A300, the first airliner built by Airbus.

Sport[]

  • 1 July - Tour de France begins.
  • 22 July - Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.

Births[]

January to March[]

  • 1 January - Lilian Thuram, international soccer player.
  • 4 January - Sylvain Deplace, soccer player.
  • 9 January - Frédéric Bessy, cyclist.
  • 10 January - Gilles Trehin, artist and author.
  • 17 January - Olivier Sourgens, rugby union player.
  • 18 January - Bruno Alicarte, soccer player.
  • 22 January - Yves Demaria, motocross racer.
  • 8 February - Mathieu Verschuère, soccer player.
  • 17 February - Philippe Candeloro, figure skater.
  • 22 February - Laurence Leboucher, mountain bike and cyclo-cross racer.
  • 3 March - Jacques Rémy, soccer player.
  • 8 March - Nicolas Fargues, novelist.
  • 12 March - Laurent Dufresne, soccer player.
  • 22 March
    • Jocelyn Gourvennec, soccer player.
    • Christophe Revault, soccer player.
  • 23 March - Judith Godrèche, actress and author.
  • 24 March - Christophe Dugarry, soccer player.
  • 25 March - Sébastien Flute, archer and Olympic gold medallist.
  • 27 March - Agathe de La Fontaine, actress.
  • 29 March - Cédric Lécluse, soccer player.

April to June[]

  • 2 April - Fabrice Bry, volleyball player.
  • 3 April - Sandrine Testud, tennis player.
  • 21 April - Gwendal Peizerat, ice dancer.
  • 29 April - Anne-Sophie Lapix, journalist and television presenter.
  • April - Olivier Doleuze, jockey.
  • 5 May - Laurent Capet, volleyball player.
  • 6 May - Sébastien Amiez, alpine skier.
  • 15 May - David Charvet, actor.
  • 20 May - Christophe Dominici, international rugby union player (died 2020).
  • 22 May - Nathalie Teppe, heptathlete.
  • 28 May - Jocelyn Blanchard, soccer player.
  • 8 June - Frédéric Esther, boxer.
  • 17 June - Antoine Albeau, windsurfer.
  • 19 June - Jean Dujardin, comedian.
  • 23 June - Zinedine Zidane, international soccer player.
  • 28 June - Samir Amirèche, soccer player.

July to September[]

  • 5 July
    • David Benyamine, tennis, billiards and poker player.
    • Gilles Lellouche, actor
  • 6 July
  • 10 July - Stéphane Carnot, soccer player.
  • 14 July - Loïc Le Meur, entrepreneur and blogger.
  • 28 July - Walter Bénéteau, cyclist.
  • 29 July - , dancer
  • 5 August - Yann Lachuer, soccer player.
  • 7 August - Ghislain Lemaire, judoka.
  • 13 August – Michael Sinterniklaas, French-born American voice actor
  • 19 August - Fabien Cool, soccer player.
  • 20 August - Olivier Guégan, soccer player.
  • 1 September - Vincent Riou, sailor.
  • 13 September - Olivier Echouafni, soccer player.
  • 19 September - Sébastien Maté, soccer player.
  • 21 September - Olivia Bonamy, actress.

October to December[]

  • 5 October - Jean-Sebastien Bax, soccer player.
  • 15 October - Mathieu Demy, actor.
  • 19 October - Fabien Leclercq, soccer player.
  • 24 October - Frédéric Déhu, soccer player.
  • 25 October - Esther Duflo, economist.
  • 11 November - Stéphane Cassard, soccer player.
  • 16 November - Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, golfer.
  • 20 November
  • 22 November - Olivier Brouzet, rugby union player.
  • 27 November - Stéphane Pocrain, television journalist.
  • 3 December - Laurent Roux, cyclist.
  • 4 December - Franck Tournaire, international rugby union player.
  • 5 December
  • 6 December - Cyrille Pouget, soccer player.
  • 13 December - Claude-Arnaud Rivenet, soccer player.
  • 19 December - Cédric Soulette, rugby union player.
  • 22 December - Vanessa Paradis, singer and actress.
  • 24 December - Richard Dutruel, soccer player.
  • 26 December - Jérôme Le Banner, kickboxer and K-1 practitioner.
  • 31 December - Grégory Coupet, international soccer player.

Full date unknown[]

  • Jules de Balincourt, painter.
  • Fabrice Bellard, computer programmer.
  • Vanessa Duriès, novelist (died 1993).
  • Sylvain Guillot, jockey.

Deaths[]

January to March[]

  • 1 January - Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (born 1888).
  • 6 January - Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (born 1891).
  • 19 January - Suzanne Malherbe, illustrator and designer (born 1892).
  • 20 January - Jean Casadesus, classical pianist (born 1927).
  • 29 January - Claire Ferchaud, religious mystic (born 1896)
  • 17 February - Youenn Drezen, Breton nationalist writer and activist (born 1899).
  • 21 February
    • Marie Dubas, music-hall singer and comedian (born 1894).
    • Eugène Tisserant, Cardinal (born 1884).
  • 4 March - Maurice Diot, cyclist (born 1922).
  • 17 March - Adolphe Bousquet, rugby union player (born 1899).
  • 28 March
    • Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician (born 1873).
    • Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist (born 1873).

April to June[]

  • 10 April - Henri de la Falaise, translator, film director and film producer (born 1898).
  • 11 April - Maurice Cottenet, soccer player (born 1895).
  • 26 April - Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (born 1897).
  • 27 April - Lucien Sarti, drug trafficker and killer-for-hire (b. c1931).
  • 5 May - Roger Courtois, international soccer player (born 1912).
  • 7 May
    • Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter, film director and producer (born 1895).
    • Robert Lingat, academic scholar (born 1892).
  • 28 May - Violette Leduc, author (born 1907).
  • 5 June - Jean Moreau, politician (born 1888).
  • 29 June - Boby Lapointe, singer (born 1922).
  • 30 June - Hervé Budes de Guébriant, engineer (born 1880)

July to September[]

  • 7 July - Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (born 1891).
  • 22 July - Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (born 1903).
  • 14 August - Jules Romains, poet and writer (born 1885).
  • 16 August - Pierre Brasseur, actor (born 1905).
  • 21 August
    • Albert Achard, World War I flying ace (born 1894).
    • Yvonne Gall, operatic soprano (born 1885).
  • 24 August - Lucien Rebatet, author, journalist and intellectual (born 1903).
  • 14 September - Jean-Jacques Bernard, playwright (born 1888)
  • 19 September - Robert Casadesus, pianist and composer (born 1899).
  • 21 September - Henry de Montherlant, essayist, novelist and playwright (born 1896).
  • 28 September - Maurice Thiriet, composer (born 1906).

October to December[]

  • 29 October - Julien Maitron, cyclist (born 1881).
  • 18 November - André Héléna, writer (born 1919).
  • 27 November - Robert Schurrer, athlete and Olympic medallist (born 1890).
  • 13 December - René Mayer, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1895).[4]
  • 15 December - François Bourbotte, soccer player (born 1913).

See also[]

  • List of French films of 1972

References[]

  1. ^ a b Bernard Jouve; Christian Lefevre (11 October 2013). Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions: In Search of Urban Gargantuas. Routledge. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-135-28378-0.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Company. 1974. p. 458. ISBN 978-0-8242-0543-0.
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