1996 in France

"See also:"
1995 in France,
other events of 1996,
1997 in France.

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Events from the year 1996 in France.

Incumbents

* President - Jacques Chirac
* Prime Minister - Alain Juppé
* Interior Minister - Jean-Louis Debré
* Finance Minister - Jean Arthuis
* Foreign Minister - Hervé de Charette

Events

*8 January - Former president of France and founder of the Socialist Party of France, Francois Mitterrand, dies.
*29 January - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
*5 May - A fire in Paris destroys much of Crédit Lyonnais bank's headquarters.
*23 May - Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill seven French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.
*27 June-29 June - 22nd G7 summit takes place in Lyon.
*18 November - Channel Tunnel fire on a truck being carried on an HGV shuttle.

Arts and Literature

port

*29 June - Tour de France begins.
*30 June - French Grand Prix won by Damon Hill of the United Kingdom.
*21 July - Tour de France ends, won by Bjarne Riis of Denmark.

Births

*Maxence Perrin, actor.

Deaths

January

*8 January - François Mitterrand, President of France from 1981 to 1995 (b.1916).
*15 January - Max Varnel, film and television director (b.1925).

February

*6 February - Jacques Wertheimer, businessman (b.1911).
*11 February - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer (b.1902).
*14 February - Louis Finot, international soccer player (b.1909).
*17 February - Hervé Bazin, writer (b.1911).

March

*2 March - Célestin Delmer, international soccer player (b.1907).
*3 March - Marguerite Duras, writer and film director (b.1914).
*3 March - Léo Malet, novelist (b.1909).
*17 March - René Clément, screenwriter and film director (b.1913).
*22 March - Claude Mauriac, author and journalist (b.1914).
*29 March - Christophe Caze, terrorist (b.1969).

April to June

*21 April - Robert Hersant, newspaper magnate (b.1920).
*29 April - François Picard, motor racing driver (b.1921).
*25 May - Barney Wilen, saxophonist and jazz composer (b.1937).
*30 May - Léon-Etienne Duval, Cardinal (b.1903).
*15 June - Yvonne Vallée, actress (b.1899).

July to September

*17 July - Paul Touvier, convicted of crime against humanity for his Collaborationist role during Vichy France (b.1915).
*29 July - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, mathematician (b.1920).
*2 August - Michel Debré, politician and first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic (b.1912).
*4 August - Jean Bourlès, cyclist (b.1930).
*4 August - André Trochut, cyclist (b.1931).
*30 August - Christine Pascal, actress, writer and director (b.1953).

October

*11 October - Pierre Grimal, historian and classicist (b.1912).
*12 October - René Lacoste, tennis player (b.1904).
*12 October - Roger Lapébie, cyclist, won the 1937 Tour de France (b.1911).
*15 October - Pierre Franey, chef and food writer (b.1921).
*17 October - Jean-Pierre Munch, cyclist (b.1926).
*31 October - Marcel Carné, film director (b.1906).

December

*3 December - Georges Duby, historian (b.1919).
*3 December - Jean Tabaud, artist (b.1914).
*9 December - Alain Poher, politician (b.1909).
*11 December - Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, member of the French Resistance (b.1912).
*25 December - Roger Duchesne, actor (b.1906).
*25 December - Gabriel Loire, stained glass artist (b.1904).
*29 December - Mireille Hartuch, singer, composer and actress (b.1906).

Full date unknown

*Claude Bourdet, writer, journalist and politician (b.1909).
*André-Georges Haudricourt, anthropologist and linguist (b.1911).
*Jean-Claude Piumi, soccer player (b.1940).

References