- 1994 in France
"See also:"
1993 in France ,
other events of 1994,1995 in France .----
Events from the year
1994 inFrance .Events
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20 March - Cantonales Elections held.
*24 March - Cantonales Elections held.
*20 April -Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he served in theVichy France Milice .
*6 May - TheChannel Tunnel , which took 15,000 workers over 7 years to complete, opens betweenEngland andFrance . Passengers can now travel between the 2 countries in 35 minutes.
*12 June - European Parliament election held in France.
*30 June - Airbus A330 test flight crash inToulouse , killing 3 crew and 4 passengers.
*4 August -Toubon Law enacted.
*3 November - A French magazine publishes photo of PresidentFrançois Mitterand 's secret daughter.
*13 November - The first passengers travel through theChannel Tunnel .
*24 December -Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked inAlgiers airport.
*26 December - Air France aircraft is flown toMarseille and stormed by theGIGN , 4 hijackers and 3 others were killed.Arts and Literature
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2 July - Tour de France begins. Two stages take place inEngland .
*3 July - French Grand Prix won byMichael Schumacher ofGermany .
*24 July - Tour de France ends, won byMiguel Indurain ofSpain .Births
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15 September -Raphael Severe , clarinet player.Deaths
January to March
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2 January -Pierre-Paul Schweitzer , fourth Managing Director of theInternational Monetary Fund (b.1912).
*15 January -Gabriel-Marie Garrone , Cardinal (b.1901).
*22 January -Jean-Louis Barrault ,actor , director andmime artist (b.1910).
*24 January -Yves Navarre , writer (b.1940).
*27 January -Alain Daniélou ,historian ,musicologist andIndologist (b.1907).
*30 January -Pierre Boulle , novelist (b.1912).
*11 February -Max Leognany , artist (b.1913).
*16 February -François Marty ,Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1904).
*24 February -Jean Sablon , singer and actor (b.1906).
*9 March -Paul Dubreil ,mathematician (b.1904).
*31 March -Henri Gouhier ,philosopher ,historian of philosophy andliterary critic (b.1898).April to June
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1 April -Robert Doisneau ,photographer (b.1912).
*3 April -Jérôme Lejeune ,paediatrician andgeneticist (b.1926).
*14 April -Jean Joyet , painter (b.1919).
*20 April -Jean Carmet , actor (b.1920).
*29 April -Marcel Bernard , tennis player (b.1914).
*16 May -Alain Cuny , actor (b.1908).
*19 May -Jacques Ellul , philosopher, sociologist, theologian (b.1912).
*14 June -Marcel Mouloudji , singer and actor (b.1922).
*16 June -Bernard Moitessier , yachtsman and author (b.1925).
*27 June -Jacques Berthier , composer (b.1923).July to September
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8 July -Christian-Jaque ,filmmaker (b.1904).
*17 July -Jean Borotra , tennis player (b.1898).
*7 August -Henri Lurie , engineer and philosopher (b.1905).
*19 August -Louis de Froment , conductor (b.1921).
*16 September -Albert Decourtray ,Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1923).
*23 September -Madeleine Renaud , actress (b.1900).
*30 September -André Michel Lwoff , microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (b.1902).October to December
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15 October -Jean Dasté , actor and theatre director (b.1904).
*21 October -Benoît Régent , actor (b.1953).
*30 November -Guy Debord ,Marxist theorist, writer andfilmmaker (b.1931).
*7 December -Pierre Cloarec , cyclist (b.1909).
*13 December -Antoine Pinay , politician andPrime Minister of France (b.1891).
*18 December -Roger Apéry ,mathematician (b.1916).
*25 December -Pierre Dreyfus , civil servant and businessman (b.1907).Full date unknown
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Gaston Charlot , chemist (b.1904).
*Louis Gabrillargues , soccer player (b.1914).
*Marcel Ichac ,alpinist ,explorer ,photographer andfilm director (b.1906).
*Raymond Molinier ,Trotskyist (b.1904).References
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