1995 in France

"See also:"
1994 in France,
other events of 1995,
1996 in France.

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Events from the year 1995 in France.

Events

*21 February - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists.
*23 April - Presidential Election held.
*7 May - Presidential Election held with Jacques Chirac elected as fifth president of the Fifth Republic.
*11 June - Municipal Elections held.
*13 June - President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
*18 June - Municipal Elections held.
*25 July - a gas bottle explodes in the Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame station, killing 8 and wounding 80 people. (see: 1995 Paris Metro bombing)
*17 August - a bomb at the Arc de Triomphe wounds 17 people.
*26 August - a huge bomb is found on the railroad tracks of a high-speed rail line near Lyon.
*3 September - a bomb malfunctions in a square in Paris, wounding 4.
*7 September - a car bomb at a Jewish school in Lyon wounds 14.
*24 September - Student, Eric Borel, killed 14 people (including his parents) and injured five others, in a rampage in Toulon, before committing suicide.
*27 September-28 September - Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros; the local army does not resist.
*29 September - Khaled Kelkal, a leader of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) which carried out the attacks, is killed by EPIGN gendarmerie members resisting arrest.
*4 October - France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers. They arrest Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France; Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.
*6 October - a gas bottle explodes in station "Maison Blanche" of the Paris Métro, wounding 13.
*17 October - a gas bottle explodes between the Musée d'Orsay and Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame stations, wounding 29.
*17 October- French-woman Jeanne Calment reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days making her the oldest person ever recorded.

Arts and Literature

port

*9 April - Paris-Roubaix cycle race won by Franco Ballerini of Italy.
*1 July - Tour de France begins.
*2 July - French Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher of Germany.
*23 July - Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births

Deaths

January to March

*21 January - Philippe Casado, cyclist (b.1964).
*26 January - Marcel Bidot, cyclist (b.1902).
*27 January - Jean Tardieu, artist, musician, poet and author (b.1903).
*1 February - Francois Boutin, Thoroughbred horse trainer (b.1937).
*2 February - André Frossard, journalist and essayist (b.1915).
*13 March - Odette Sansom, World War II heroine (b.1912).

April to June

*5 April - Christian Pineau, French Resistance leader and politician (b.1904).
*18 May - Henri Laborit, physician, writer and philosopher (b.1914).
*25 May - Élie Bayol, motor racing driver (b.1914).
*May - Paul Bonneau, composer (b.1918).
*2 June - Alexandre de Marenches, military officer (b.1921).
*3 June - Jean-Patrick Manchette, novelist (b.1942).
*22 June - Yves Congar, priest and theologian (b.1904).
*23 June - Henri de Laulanie, Jesuit priest and agriculturalist (b.1920).
*27 June - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar and sociologist (b.1910).

July to September

*12 July - Jules Henri Saiset, existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and critic (b.1925).
*15 July - Robert-Joseph Coffy, Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1920).
*19 July - René Privat, cyclist (b.1930).
*23 July - Fabien Galateau, cyclist (b.1913).
*29 July - Philippe De Lacy, actor (b.1917).
*6 August - André Fleury, composer, pianist and organist (b.1903).
*11 August - Marcel Moussy, screenwriter and television director (b.1924).
*19 August - Pierre Schaeffer, composer, inventor of musique concrète (b.1910).
*29 August - Pierre Max Dubois, composer (b.1930).
*4 September - Edmond Jouhaud, one of four generals who staged the Algiers putsch of 1961 (b.1905).
*24 September - Eric Borel, spree killer (b.1979).

October to December

*7 October - Gérard de Vaucouleurs, astronomer (b.1918).
*19 October - André Lalande, military officer (b.1913).
*4 November - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher (b.1925).
*23 November - Louis Malle, film director (b.1932).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Yves Couliou, painter (b.1916).
*Gilbert Martineau, author and curator of the French properties on St Helena (b.1918).
*René Zazzo, psychologist (b.1910).

References