1992 in France

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Events from the year 1992 in France.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

  • 22 March – Regional Elections held.
  • 22 March – held.
  • 29 March – held.
  • 12 April – Euro Disney resort and theme park opens to the east of Paris.
  • 17 June – The French national football team's hopes of winning Euro 92 are ended by a 2–1 defeat to Denmark in the final group game in Sweden.[1]
  • 20 September – Maastricht Treaty referendum held, with a small majority in favour of ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
  • 8 October – Launch of the Renault Twingo, an entry level car which takes on a ground-breaking one-box design and will compete with the likes of the new Fiat Cinquecento.[2]
  • 17 November – Start of the "couscous connection" trial in which Habib Ben Ali, the younger brother of the President of Tunisia is accused of laundering drug money.[3]

Arts and literature[]

Sport[]

  • 8 February – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville.
  • 23 February – The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics is held.
  • 5 May – Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia, Corsica, when one of the terraces collapsed, killing 18 people.
  • 4 July – Tour de France begins.
  • 5 July – French Grand Prix won by Nigel Mansell of the United Kingdom.
  • 26 July – Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births[]

  • 17 January
    • Dounia Abdourahim, handball player
    • Laura Augé, swimmer
  • 22 January – Benjamin Jeannot, footballer
  • 19 February – Marie Annequin, swimmer
  • 21 February – Gauthier Mahoto, footballer
  • 25 February – Annaïg Butel, footballer
  • 3 March – Sega Keita, footballer
  • 10 March – Neeskens Kebano, footballer
  • 30 March – Abdoulaye Diallo, footballer
  • 31 March – William Gros, footballer
  • 6 April – Mikail Albayrak, footballer
  • 10 April – Najib Ammari, footballer
  • 13 April – Melodie Monrose, model
  • 24 April – Sigrid Agren, model
  • 29 April – Gaël N'Lundulu, footballer
  • 30 April – Mike Cestor, footballer
  • 11 May – Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, middle-distance athlete
  • 14 May – Anthony Derouard, footballer
  • 18 May – Kevin Mendy, basketball player
  • 22 May – Camille Lou, singer
  • 28 May – Stéphane Bahoken, footballer
  • 9 June
    • Yannick Agnel, swimmer
    • Dennis Appiah, footballer
  • 17 June – Hugo Valente, French auto racing driver
  • 18 June
    • Rachid Alioui, footballer
    • Adama Soumaoro, footballer
  • 22 June – Terence Makengo, footballer
  • 6 August – Mehdi Abeid, footballer
  • 19 August – Estelle Mossely, Boxer[4]
  • 4 September – Layvin Kurzawa, footballer
  • 12 September – Gilbert Imbula, footballer
  • 15 September – Camélia Jordana, pop singer
  • 11 October – Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro, footballer
  • 25 October – Clarisse Agbegnenou, judoka
  • 7 November – Agnès Raharolahy, sprinter
  • 1 December – Quentin Bigot, hammer thrower
  • 2 December – Massadio Haïdara, footballer
  • 24 December – Serge Aurier, footballer

Deaths[]

January to June[]

  • 21 January – Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician (born 1909).
  • 1 February – Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist (born 1909).
  • 20 February – Pierre Dervaux, operatic conductor and composer (born 1917).
  • 14 March – Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter (born 1926).
  • 16 March – Yves Rocard, physicist (born 1903).
  • 20 March – Georges Delerue, film composer (born 1925).
  • 30 March – Amédée Fournier, cyclist (born 1912).
  • 27 April – Olivier Messiaen, composer, organist and ornithologist (born 1908).
  • 5 May – Jean-Claude Pascal, costume designer and singer (born 1927).
  • 30 June – André Hébuterne, painter (born 1894).

July to December[]

  • 24 July – Arletty, singer and actress (born 1898).[5]
  • 2 August – Michel Berger, singer and songwriter (born 1947).
  • 19 August – Jean-Albert Grégoire, car pioneer (born 1899).
  • 29 August – Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher (born 1930).
  • 16 September – Henri Legay, operatic tenor (born 1920).
  • 15 October – Paul Paillole, soldier (born 1905).
  • 29 November
    • Jean Dieudonné, mathematician (born 1906).
    • Raoul Ploquin, film producer, production manager and screenwriter.
  • 10 December – Jacques Perret, writer (born 1901).
  • 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, interior designer (born 1934).

Full date unknown[]

  • Jules Gros, Breton linguist (born 1890).
  • Bernard Lefebvre, photographer (born 1906).

See also[]

  • List of French films of 1992

References[]

  1. ^ "Soaring Denmark finish off fancied France in EURO 1992 Group 1". 5 October 2003.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ Broussard, Philippe (19 November 1992). "Le frère du président tunisien inculpé d'infraction à la législation sur les stupéfiants M. Habib Ben Ali ne s'est pas présenté au procès de la " couscous connection "". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Estelle MOSSELY - Olympic | France". International Olympic Committee. 24 June 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Obituary: Arletty". The Independent. 25 July 1992. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
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