1977 in France

"See also:"
1976 in France,
other events of 1977,
1978 in France.

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Events from the year 1977 in France.

Events

*13 March - Municipal Elections held.
*20 March - Municipal Elections held.

Arts and Literature

*7 May - Marie Myriam wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 for France with her song "L'oiseau et l'enfant" ("The Bird and the Child").

port

*30 June - Tour de France begins.
*24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Bernard Thevenet.

Births

January to March

*3 January - Stéphane Pignol, soccer player.
*4 January - Louisa Baïleche, singer, dancer and performer.
*4 January - Jonathan Cochet, motor racing driver.
*11 January - Jérôme Kerviel, trader charged in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident.
*18 January - Jean-Patrick Nazon, cyclist.
*26 January - Jean-Michel Sigere, soccer player.
*27 January - Siramana Dembélé, soccer player.
*29 January - Alexandre Rousselet, cross country skier.
*9 February - Nicolas Coutelot, tennis player.
*15 February - Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin, Alpine skier.
*20 February - Nicolas Dessum, ski jumper.
*23 February - Freddy Bourgeois, soccer player.
*27 February - Jean-Pierre Vidal, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist.
*28 February - Pierre Mignoni, rugby union player.
*28 February - Jean-François Rivière, soccer player.
*4 March - Grégory Le Corvec, rugby union player.
*7 March - Jérôme Fernandez, handball player.
*8 March - Estelle Desanges, pornographic actress.
*9 March - Sébastien Chabaud, soccer player.
*9 March - Vincent Defrasne, biathlete and Olympic gold medallist.
*12 March - David Bouard, soccer player.
*15 March - Frédéric Serrat, boxer.
*18 March - Willy Sagnol, international soccer player.

April to June

*1 April - Vincent Doukantié, soccer player.
*2 April - Marc Raquil, athlete.
*13 April - Bertrand Laquait, soccer player.
*13 April - Olivier Olibeau, rugby union player.
*30 April - Lilian Compan, soccer player.
*1 May - Jean-Michel Lesage, soccer player.
*10 May - Gabriel Monnier, figure skater.
*20 May - Mathieu Blin, rugby union player.
*21 May - Maxime Brunerie, attempted assassination of President Jacques Chirac in 2002.
*11 June - Vincent Ehouman, soccer player.
*16 June - Delphine Pelletier, athlete.
*19 June - Stéphan Perrot, swimmer.
*22 June - Frédéric Weis, basketball player.
*24 June - Jean-Philippe Caillet, soccer player.
*30 June - Christophe Landrin, soccer player.

July to September

*5 July - Jérôme Éyana, athlete.
*13 July - Christophe Meslin, soccer player.
*13 July - Romain Mesnil, pole vaulter.
*20 July - Yves Niaré, shot putter.
*24 July - Cédric Anselin, soccer player.
*26 July - Christophe Laurent, cyclist.
*8 August - Romain Pitau, soccer player.
*9 August - Mikaël Silvestre, international soccer player.
*15 August - Malek Aït-Alia, soccer player.
*17 August - Thierry Henry, international soccer player.
*18 August - Ludovic Roy, soccer player.
*23 August - Yoann Bigné, soccer player.
*24 August - Arnaud Gonzalez, soccer player.
*27 August - Martial Robin, soccer player.
*2 September - Frédéric Kanouté, soccer player.
*3 September - Stéphane Bonsergent, cyclist.
*3 September - Yannick Zambernardi, soccer player.
*9 September - Sébastien Gimbert, motorcycle road racer.
*11 September - Ludovic Hubler, hitchhiker.
*28 September - Julien Pillet, sabre fencer and twice Olympic medallist.
*30 September - Jean-Sébastien Jaurès, soccer player.

October to December

*2 October - Patrick Barul, soccer player.
*5 October - Christian Bassila, soccer player.
*7 October - Sébastien de Chaunac, tennis player.
*8 October - Anne-Caroline Chausson, Mountain bike racer.
*11 October - Jérémie Janot, soccer player.
*15 October - David Trezeguet, international soccer player.
*31 October - Sylviane Félix, athlete and Olympic medallist.
*31 October - Séverine Ferrer, singer.
*12 November - Jérémy Henin, soccer player.
*21 November - Kodjo Afanou, soccer player.
*23 November - Jean-Baptiste Élissalde, rugby union player.
*29 November - Cédric Uras, soccer player.
*1 December - Joseph-Désiré Job, soccer player.
*2 December - Jérôme Thion, rugby union player.
*8 December - Sébastien Chabal, rugby union player.
*14 December - Romain Dumas, motor racing driver.
*17 December - Arnaud Clément, tennis player.
*30 December - Alex Jeannin, soccer player.

Full date unknown

*Jean-Pascal Chaigne, composer and musicologist.
*Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, software engineer.
*Zoé Félix, actress.
*Éléonore Gosset, actress.
*Anita Tijoux, singer.

Deaths

January to March

*10 January - Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist (b.1909).
*12 January - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (b.1907).
*13 January - Henri Langlois, pioneer of film preservation and restoration (b.1914).
*14 January - Anaïs Nin, writer (b.1903).
*19 January - Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (b.1894).
*24 January - Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (b.1901).
*10 February - Alain Escoffier, anti-communist activist, self-immolated (b.1949).

April to June

*3 April - Pierre-Marie Théas, Bishop (b.1894).
*11 April - Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (b.1900).
*2 May - Jean-Claude Lebaube, cyclist (b.1937).
*22 June - Jacqueline Audry, film director (b.1908).

July to September

*4 July - Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore (b.1901).
*7 July - Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (b.1893).
*21 August - Pierre Cot, politician (b.1895).
*4 September - Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (b.1898).
*4 September - Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (b.1894).
*14 September - Marcel Carpentier, military officer (b.1895).
*29 September - Jean Marsan, screenwriter and actor (b.1920).

October to December

*19 October - René Mourlon, athlete and Olympic medallist (b.1893).
*20 October - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b.1909).
*25 October - Félix Gouin, politician (b.1884).
*5 November - René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist (b.1926).
*7 December - Georges Grignard, motor racing driver (b.1905).
*12 December - Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (b.1891).
*19 December - Jacques Tourneur, film director (b.1904).

Full date unknown

*Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (b.1934).
*Léonie Duquet, nun, killed by a death squad in Argentina (b.1916).
*Marcel Gaston Fetique, bowmaker (b.1899).
*Annette Laming-Emperaire, archeologist (b.1917).
*Armand Lunel, writer (b.1892).
*Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (b.1904).
*Georges Miquelle, cellist (b.1894).

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