- 1970 in France
"See also:"
1969 in France ,
other events of 1970,1971 in France .----
Events from the year
1970 inFrance .Events
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10 February - Anavalanche atVal 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 anavalanche buries atuberculosis sanatorium in theFrench Alps .
*6 October - PresidentGeorges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
*11 October - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels inChad .
*1 November - Fire destroys the Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont; 144 dead.port
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27 June - Tour de France begins.
*19 July - Tour de France ends, won byEddy Merckx ofBelgium .Births
January to March
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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.
*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, filmmmaker.April to June
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14 April -Richard Sainct , Rally RaidMotorcycle 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 ,judo ka.
*13 May -Wilfrid Boulineau , decathlete.
*21 May -Pierre Billaud , radio reporter and journalist, killed inAfghanistan (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.July to September
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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 ,judo ka.
*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
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23 October -Stéphane Nomis ,judo ka.
*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
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Jean Sebastien Gerard , musician.
*Christophe Honoré , writer and film director.
*Julien Lourau , jazz saxophonist.
*Christine Malèvre ,serial killer .
*Vincent Paronnaud ,comics artist andfilmmaker .
*Amélie Sarn , author, comic book writer and translator.Deaths
January to March
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4 January -Jean-Étienne Valluy , general (b.1899).
*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).April to June
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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 andPrime 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
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10 July -Félix Gaillard , Radical politician andPrime Minister of France (b.1919).
*11 July -André Lurçat , architect (b.1894).
*30 July -Jean d'Eaubonne ,art director (b.1903).
*5 August - Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister (b.1888).
*1 September -François Mauriac ,author , winner of theNobel Prize in Literature (b.1885).
*2 September -Marie Pierre Kœnig , general and politician (b.1898).
*23 September -Bourvil , actor and singer (b.1917).October to December
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8 October -Jean Giono , author (b.1895).
*9 October -Edmond Michelet , politician (b.1899).
*10 October -Édouard Daladier , Radical-Socialist politician andPrime Minister of France (b.1884).
*18 October -Jean De Briac , actor (b.1891).
*6 November -Henri Jeanson ,writer andjournalist (b.1900).
*9 November -Charles de Gaulle , general, statesman, President (b.1890).
*1 December -Hermine David , painter (b.1886).
*18 December -Marc Boegner , theologist, pastor,French Resistance member and essayist (d.1881).Full date unknown
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Lucienne Abraham ,Trotskyist politician (b.1916).
*Marcel Allain , writer (b.1885).
*Camille Arambourg ,paleontologist (b.1885).
*Jérôme Carcopino , historian and author (b.1881).
*Mathilde Carré ,French Resistance agent, became adouble agent (b.1910).
*Laurent Eynac , politician and Minister (b.1886).
*Émile Girardeau , engineer (b.1882).
*Maurice Lafforgue ,alpine skier (b.1913).
*Henri Lauvaux , athlete and Olympic medallist (b.1900).
*Georges Limbour , writer (b.1900).
*Georges Malkine , painter (b.1898).
*Henri Marchal , archaeologist (b.1876).
*André Simon, wine merchant, gourmet and writer (b.1877).
*Pierre Veyron , motor racing driver (b.1903).References
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