1972 in France

"See also:"
1971 in France,
other events of 1972,
1973 in France.

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Events from the year 1972 in France.

Events

*28 January - Richard Chanfray claims he is the Count of St Germain on French television.
*23 April - French European Economic Community enlargement referendum, voters approved the accession of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, and Norway to the ECC.
*16 June - 108 die as two passenger trains hit debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons.
*1 July - Canadian ketch "Vega", flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper "La Paimpolaise" while in international waters to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
*28 October - The first flight of the Airbus A300, the first airliner built by Airbus.

Arts and Literature

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*1 July - Tour de France begins.
*22 July - Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.

Births

January to March

*1 January - Lilian Thuram, international soccer player.
*4 January - Sylvain Deplace, soccer player.
*9 January - Frédéric Bessy, cyclist.
*17 January - Olivier Sourgens, rugby union player.
*18 January - Bruno Alicarte, soccer player.
*22 January - Yves Demaria, motocross racer.
*8 February - Mathieu Verschuère, soccer player.
*17 February - Philippe Candeloro, figure skater.
*22 February - Laurence Leboucher, mountain bike and cyclo-cross racer.
*3 March - Jacques Rémy, soccer player.
*12 March - Laurent Dufresne, soccer player.
*22 March - Jocelyn Gourvennec, soccer player.
*22 March - Christophe Revault, soccer player.
*23 March - Judith Godrèche, actress and author.
*24 March - Christophe Dugarry, soccer player.
*25 March - Sébastien Flute, archer and Olympic gold medallist.
*27 March - Agathe de La Fontaine, actress.
*29 March - Cédric Lécluse, soccer player.

April to June

*2 April - Fabrice Bry, volleyball player.
*3 April - Sandrine Testud, tennis player.
*21 April - Gwendal Peizerat, ice dancer.
*29 April - Anne-Sophie Lapix, journalist and television presenter.
*April - Olivier Doleuze, jockey.
*5 May - Laurent Capet, volleyball player.
*6 May - Sébastien Amiez, alpine skier.
*11 may - Benoît Magimel, actor.
*15 May - David Charvet, actor.
*20 May - Christophe Dominici, international rugby union player.
*22 May - Nathalie Teppe, heptathlete.
*28 May - Jocelyn Blanchard, soccer player.
*8 June - Frédéric Esther, boxer.
*17 June - Antoine Albeau, windsurfer.
*19 June - Jean Dujardin, comedian.
*23 June - Zinedine Zidane, international soccer player.
*28 June - Samir Amirèche, soccer player.
*29 June - Nathalie Boët, actress, novelist and journalist.

July to September

*5 July - David Benyamine, tennis, billiards and poker player.
*6 July - Fabrice Colin, author.
*6 July - Laurent Gaudé, writer.
*10 July - Stéphane Carnot, soccer player.
*14 July - Loïc Le Meur, entrepreneur and blogger.
*28 July - Walter Bénéteau, cyclist.
*5 August - Yann Lachuer, soccer player.
*7 August - Ghislain Lemaire, judoka.
*19 August - Fabien Cool, soccer player.
*20 August - Olivier Guégan, soccer player.
*1 September - Vincent Riou, sailor.
*13 September - Olivier Echouafni, soccer player.
*19 September - Sébastien Maté, soccer player.
*21 September - Olivia Bonamy, actress.

October to December

*5 October - Jean-Sebastien Bax, soccer player.
*15 October - Mathieu Demy, actor.
*19 October - Fabien Leclercq, soccer player.
*24 October - Frédéric Déhu, soccer player.
*11 November - Stéphane Cassard, soccer player.
*16 November - Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, golfer.
*20 November - Jérôme Alonzo, soccer player.
*20 November - Corinne Niogret, biathlete and Olympic medallist.
*22 November - Olivier Brouzet, rugby union player.
*27 November - Stéphane Pocrain, television journalist.
*3 December - Laurent Roux, cyclist.
*4 December - Franck Tournaire, international rugby union player.
*5 December - Antoine Préget, soccer player.
*6 December - Cyrille Pouget, soccer player.
*13 December - Claude-Arnaud Rivenet, soccer player.
*19 December - Cédric Soulette, rugby union player.
*22 December - Vanessa Paradis, singer and actress.
*24 December - Richard Dutruel, soccer player.
*26 December - Jérôme Le Banner, kickboxer and K-1 practitioner.
*31 December - Grégory Coupet, international soccer player.

Full date unknown

*Jules de Balincourt, painter.
*Fabrice Bellard, computer programmer.
*Yannick Bressan, internet researcher and university teacher.
*Vanessa Duriès, novelist (d.1993).
*Nicolas Fargues, novelist.
*Sylvain Guillot, jockey.
*Gilles Trehin, artist and author.

Deaths

January to March

*1 January - Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (b.1888).
*6 January - Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (b.1891).
*19 January - Suzanne Malherbe, illustrator and designer (b.1892).
*20 January - Jean Casadesus, classical pianist (b.1927).
*21 February - Marie Dubas, music-hall singer and comedienne (b.1894).
*21 February - Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, Cardinal (b.1884).
*4 March - Maurice Diot, cyclist (b.1922).
*17 March - Adolphe Bousquet, rugby union player (b.1899).
*28 March - Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician (b.1873).

April to June

*10 April - Henri de la Falaise, translator, film director and film producer (b.1898).
*11 April - Maurice Cottenet, soccer player (b.1895).
*26 April - Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (b.1897).
*27 April - Lucien Sarti, drug trafficker and killer-for-hire (b. c1931).
*5 May - Roger Courtois, international soccer player (b.1912).
*7 May - Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter, film director and producer (b.1895).
*28 May - Violette Leduc, author (b.1907).
*5 June - Jean Moreau, politician (b.1888).
*29 June - Boby Lapointe, singer (b.1922).

July to September

*7 July - Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (b.1891).
*22 July - Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (b.1903).
*14 August - Jules Romains, poet and writer (b.1885).
*16 August - Pierre Brasseur, actor (b.1905).
*21 August - Albert Achard, World War I flying ace (b.1894).
*21 August - Yvonne Gall, operatic soprano (b.1885).
*19 September - Robert Casadesus, pianist and composer (b.1899).
*21 September - Henry de Montherlant, essayist, novelist and playwright (b.1896).
*28 September - Maurice Thiriet, composer (b.1906).

October to December

*29 October - Julien Maitron, cyclist (b.1881).
*27 November - Robert Schurrer, athlete and Olympic medallist (b.1890).
*13 December - René Mayer, politician and Prime Minister of France (b.1895).
*15 December - François Bourbotte, soccer player (b.1913).

Full date unknown

*Youenn Drezen, Breton nationalist writer and activist (b.1899).
*André Héléna, writer (b.1919).
*Robert Lingat, academic scholar (b.1892).
*Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist (b.1873).
*Lucien Rebatet, author, journalist and intellectual (b.1903).

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