1970 in France

"See also:"
1969 in France,
other events of 1970,
1971 in France.

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Events from the year 1970 in France.

Events

*10 February - An avalanche at Val 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 an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps.
*6 October - President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
*11 October - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
*1 November - Fire destroys the Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont; 144 dead.

port

*27 June - Tour de France begins.
*19 July - Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.

Births

January to March

*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

*14 April - Richard Sainct, Rally Raid Motorcycle 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, judoka.
*13 May - Wilfrid Boulineau, decathlete.
*21 May - Pierre Billaud, radio reporter and journalist, killed in Afghanistan (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

*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, judoka.
*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

*23 October - Stéphane Nomis, judoka.
*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

*Jean Sebastien Gerard, musician.
*Christophe Honoré, writer and film director.
*Julien Lourau, jazz saxophonist.
*Christine Malèvre, serial killer.
*Vincent Paronnaud, comics artist and filmmaker.
*Amélie Sarn, author, comic book writer and translator.

Deaths

January to March

*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

*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 and Prime 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

*10 July - Félix Gaillard, Radical politician and Prime 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 the Nobel 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

*8 October - Jean Giono, author (b.1895).
*9 October - Edmond Michelet, politician (b.1899).
*10 October - Édouard Daladier, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France (b.1884).
*18 October - Jean De Briac, actor (b.1891).
*6 November - Henri Jeanson, writer and journalist (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

*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 a double 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).

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