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Events from the year 1972 in France.
Incumbents[edit]
- President: Georges Pompidou
- Prime Minister: Jacques Chaban-Delmas (until 5 July),[1] Pierre Messmer (starting 6 July)
Events[edit]
- January – Launch of the Renault 5, one of the world's first small hatchbacks.[2]
- 23 April – French European Economic Community enlargement referendum, voters approved the accession of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, and Norway to the EEC.
- 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.
- 5 July – President Pompidou dismisses prime minister Chaban-Delmas following rumours of financial misdoing.[1]
- October – The Peugeot 104, the smallest four-door car in the world, is launched.[3]
- 28 October – The first flight of the Airbus A300, the first airliner built by Airbus.
- 6 November – Activist couple Saïd and Faouzia Bouziri in Goutte d'Or district begin a hunger strike to protest the expulsion order against them, which they received due to their human rights and immigrant rights activism[4]
- 19 November – Almost 2,000 people demonstrate in support of Saïd and Faouzia Bouziri at the square within Quartier de La Chapelle, forcing the expulsion order to be dropped[4]
Sport[edit]
- 1 July – Tour de France begins.
- 22 July – Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.
Births[edit]
January to March[edit]
- 1 January – Lilian Thuram, international soccer player.
- 4 January – Sylvain Deplace, soccer player.
- 9 January – Frédéric Bessy, cyclist.
- 10 January – Gilles Trehin, artist and author.
- 17 January – Olivier Sourgens, rugby union player.
- 18 January – Bruno Alicarte, soccer player.
- 22 January – Yves Demaria, motocross racer.
- 23 January - Léa Drucker, French actress
- 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.
- 8 March – Nicolas Fargues, novelist.
- 12 March – Laurent Dufresne, soccer player.
- 22 March
- Jocelyn Gourvennec, soccer player.
- 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[edit]
- 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.
- 15 May – David Charvet, actor.
- 20 May – Christophe Dominici, international rugby union player (died 2020).
- 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.
July to September[edit]
- 5 July
- David Benyamine, tennis, billiards and poker player.
- Gilles Lellouche, actor
- 6 July
- Fabrice Colin, author.
- Laurent Gaudé, writer.
- 10 July – Stéphane Carnot, soccer player.
- 14 July – Loïc Le Meur, entrepreneur and blogger.
- 28 July – Walter Bénéteau, cyclist.
- 29 July – Amaria Pauline , dancer
- 5 August – Yann Lachuer, soccer player.
- 7 August – Ghislain Lemaire, judoka.
- 13 August – Michael Sinterniklaas, French-born American voice actor
- 19 August – Fabien Cool, soccer player.
- 20 August – Olivier Guégan, soccer player.
- 20 August – Jérôme Legavre, politician.
- 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[edit]
- 5 October – Jean-Sebastien Bax, soccer player.
- 15 October – Mathieu Demy, actor.
- 19 October – Fabien Leclercq, soccer player.
- 24 October – Frédéric Déhu, soccer player.
- 25 October – Esther Duflo, economist.
- 11 November – Stéphane Cassard, soccer player.
- 14 November – Delphine Lingemann, politician.
- 16 November – Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, golfer.
- 20 November
- Jérôme Alonzo, soccer player.
- 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
- Stéphane Barthe, racing cyclist
- 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[edit]
- Jules de Balincourt, painter.
- Fabrice Bellard, computer programmer.
- Vanessa Duriès, novelist (died 1993).
- Sylvain Guillot, jockey.
Deaths[edit]
January to March[edit]
- 1 January – Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (born 1888).[5]
- 6 January – Xavier Vallat, politician and Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in Vichy France (born 1891).
- 19 January – Suzanne Malherbe, illustrator and designer (born 1892).
- 20 January – Jean Casadesus, classical pianist (born 1927).
- 29 January – Claire Ferchaud, religious mystic (born 1896)
- 17 February – Youenn Drezen, Breton nationalist writer and activist (born 1899).
- 21 February
- Marie Dubas, music-hall singer and comedian (born 1894).
- Eugène Tisserant, cardinal (born 1884).
- 4 March – Maurice Diot, cyclist (born 1922).
- 17 March – Adolphe Bousquet, rugby union player (born 1899).
- 28 March
- Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician (born 1873).
- Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist (born 1873).
April to June[edit]
- 10 April – Henri de la Falaise, translator, film director and film producer (born 1898).
- 11 April – Maurice Cottenet, soccer player (born 1895).
- 26 April – Jacques de Bernonville, collaborationist and senior police officer in the Vichy regime (born 1897).
- 27 April – Lucien Sarti, drug trafficker and killer-for-hire (b. c1931).
- 5 May – Roger Courtois, international soccer player (born 1912).
- 7 May
- Henri Diamant-Berger, screenwriter, film director and producer (born 1895).
- Robert Lingat, academic scholar (born 1892).
- 28 May – Violette Leduc, author (born 1907).
- 5 June – Jean Moreau, politician (born 1888).
- 17 June – Marcel Deviq, engineer, businessman, and politician (born 1907).
- 29 June – Boby Lapointe, singer (born 1922).
- 30 June – Hervé Budes de Guébriant, engineer (born 1880).
July to September[edit]
- 7 July – Marcel-Frédéric Lubin-Lebrère, rugby union player (born 1891).
- 22 July – Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (born 1903).
- 14 August – Jules Romains, poet and writer (born 1885).
- 16 August – Pierre Brasseur, actor (born 1905).
- 21 August
- Albert Achard, World War I flying ace (born 1894).
- Yvonne Gall, operatic soprano (born 1885).
- 24 August – Lucien Rebatet, author, journalist and intellectual (born 1903).
- 14 September – Jean-Jacques Bernard, playwright (born 1888)
- 19 September – Robert Casadesus, pianist and composer (born 1899).
- 21 September – Henry de Montherlant, essayist, novelist and playwright (born 1896).
- 28 September – Maurice Thiriet, composer (born 1906).
October to December[edit]
- 29 October – Julien Maitron, cyclist (born 1881).
- 18 November – André Héléna, writer (born 1919).
- 27 November – Robert Schurrer, athlete and Olympic medallist (born 1890).
- 13 December – René Mayer, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1895).[6]
- 15 December – François Bourbotte, soccer player (born 1913).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Bernard Jouve; Christian Lefevre (11 October 2013). Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions: In Search of Urban Gargantuas. Routledge. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-135-28378-0.
- ^ "My Renault5 - Super5 performance, tuning, styling, repair, photos: Renault 5 - first generation". Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ^ "Peugeot History - 1965 - 1973 Front-Wheel Drive Comes to the Fore". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ^ a b "Calames". calames.abes.fr. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Maurice Chevalier Dead; Singer and Actor Was 83". The New York Times. 14 February 1972.
- ^ Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Company. 1974. p. 458. ISBN 978-0-8242-0543-0.