1994 in France

Events

20 March – Cantonales Elections held.
24 March – Cantonales Elections held.
20 April – Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of seven Jews at Rillieux-la-Pape in June 1944, becoming the first French national to be charged with crimes against humanity committed during the German occupation of France in the Second World War.^[1]
6 May – The Channel Tunnel is opened by President François Mitterrand and Elizabeth II in two separate ceremonies held in Calais and Folkestone.^[2]
12 June – European Parliament election held in France.
30 June – Airbus A330 test flight crash in Toulouse, killing 3 crew and 4 passengers.
4 August – Toubon Law enacted.
3 November – A French magazine publishes photo of President François Mitterrand's secret daughter.
13 November – The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
7 December – L'étrange Noël de monsieur Jack on French Movie Theater
24 December – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked in Algiers airport.
26 December – Raid of Air France Flight 8969: The Hijacked Air France aircraft is flown to Marseille and stormed by the GIGN, 4 hijackers and 3 others were killed.

Remove ads

Births

Remove ads

Deaths

2 January – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (born 1912)
15 January – Gabriel-Marie Garrone, cardinal (born 1901)
22 January – Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director and mime artist (born 1910)
24 January – Yves Navarre, writer (born 1940)
27 January – Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (born 1907)
30 January – Pierre Boulle, novelist (born 1912)
11 February – Max Leognany, artist (born 1913)
16 February – François Marty, Roman Catholic crdinal (born 1904)
24 February – Jean Sablon, singer and actor (born 1906)
9 March – Paul Dubreil, mathematician (born 1904)
28 March – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (born 1909)
31 March – Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (born 1898)

1 April – Robert Doisneau, photographer (born 1912)
3 April – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (born 1926)
9 April – Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (born 1906)
14 April – Jean Joyet, painter (born 1919)
17 April – Gaston Charlot, chemist (born 1904)
20 April – Jean Carmet, actor (born 1920)
29 April – Marcel Bernard, tennis player (born 1914)
16 May – Alain Cuny, actor (born 1908)
19 May – Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (born 1912)
3 June – Puig Aubert, rugby league footballer (born 1925)
14 June – Marcel Mouloudji, singer and actor (born 1922)
16 June – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (born 1925)
27 June – Jacques Berthier, composer (born 1923)

8 July – Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (born 1904)
17 July – Jean Borotra, tennis player (born 1898)
19 August – Louis de Froment, conductor (born 1921)
16 September – Albert Decourtray, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1923)
23 September – Madeleine Renaud, actress (born 1900)
30 September – André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (born 1902)^[5]

15 October – Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (born 1904)
21 October – Benoît Régent, actor (born 1953)
18 November – Henri Choussat, gerontologist (born 1906)^[6]
30 November
- Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (born 1931)
- Louis Gabrillargues, soccer player (born 1914)
7 December – Pierre Cloarec, cyclist (born 1909)
13 December – Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1891)
18 December – Roger Apéry, mathematician (born 1916)
25 December – Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (born 1907)

Remove ads

Incumbents