1993 in France

"See also:"
1992 in France,
other events of 1993,
1994 in France.

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Events from the year 1993 in France.

Events

*21 March - Legislative Election held.
*28 March - Legislative Election held. Gaullists win a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.
*1 May - Pierre Bérégovoy, former Prime Minister commits suicide.
*8 June - In Paris, Christian Didier breaks into the home of René Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator, and shoots him dead.
*13 October – The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in Mauritius.
*2 December – The announced merger (6 September) between Renault and Volvo fails.

Arts and Literature

port

*16 May - Marseille defeats A.C. Milan in the UEFA Champions League Final.
*3 July - Tour de France begins.
*4 July - French Grand Prix won by Alain Prost.
*25 July - Tour de France ends won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births

*1 September - Ilona Mitrecey, singer.

Deaths

January to March

*13 January - René Pleven, politician (b.1901).
*13 January - Charles Tillon, politician (b.1897).
*21 January - Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause (b.1932).
*27 January - André the Giant, professional wrestler (b.1946).
*2 February - Jean Lecanuet, politician (b.1920).
*8 February - Roland Mousnier, historian (b.1907).
*10 February - Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, politician and Prime Minister of France (b.1914).
*30 March - Andrée Brunet, figure skater (b.1901).

April to June

*1 April - Andrée Brunin, poet (b.1937).
*1 May - Pierre Bérégovoy, politician and Prime Minister of France (b.1925).
*22 May - Alfred Vaucher, theologian, church historian and bibliographer (b.1887).
*4 June - André Girard, civil servant and Resistance worker (b.1909).
*8 June - René Bousquet, civil servant, served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police (b.1909).
*14 June - Louis Jacquinot, lawyer and politician (b.1898).
*18 June - Jean Cau, writer and journalist (b.1925).
*19 June - Marcel Béalu, writer (b.1908).

July to September

*21 July - René-Jean Jacquet, soccer player (b.1933).
*14 July - Léo Ferré, poet, composer, singer and musician (b.1916).
*1 August - Jean-Pierre Abbat, joint first person in the USA to manufacture polyurethane (b.1928).
*16 August - René Dreyfus, motor racing driver (b.1905).
*4 September - Hervé Villechaize, actor (b.1943).
*5 September - Claude Renoir, cinematographer (b.1914).

October to December

*1 November - Clément Dupont, rugby union player (b.1899).
*16 November - Achille Zavatta, clown and circus operator (b.1915).
*13 December - Vanessa Duriès, novelist (b.1972).
*18 December - Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (b.1911).
*23 December - Sylvia Bataille, actress (b.1908).
*25 December - Pierre Victor Auger, physicist (b.1899).
*27 December - André Pilette, motor racing driver (b.1918).

Full date unknown

*Christian Metz, film theorist (b.1931).
*Roger Michelot, boxer (b.1912).
*Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (b.1904).

References