1967 in France

Events from the year 1967 in France.

Incumbents

* President: Charles de Gaulle
* Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou

Events

*5 March – Legislative Election held.
*12 March – Legislative Election held.
*19 March – A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France.
*6 April – Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
*28 April – Elf Aquitaine petroleum brand launched.
*24 July – During an official state visit to Canada, President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: '' Vive le Québec libre!'' (Long live free Quebec!).
*29 July – Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.
*24 September – Cantonales Elections held.
*1 October – Cantonales Elections held.
*17 November – Author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia.
*27 November – Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again.
*11 December – The Concorde aircraft is unveiled in Toulouse.

Arts and literature

Sport

*29 June – Tour de France begins.
*23 July – Tour de France ends, won by Roger Pingeon.

Births

January to March

*25 January – David Ginola, soccer player.
*24 February – Jean-Charles Gicquel, high jumper.
*28 February – Laurence Treil, model and actress.
*2 March – Thierry Lacroix, rugby union player.
*6 March – Hervé Piccirillo, soccer referee.
*7 March – Jean-Pierre Barda, pop star and actor.
*17 March – Nathalie Marquay, beauty queen.
*24 March – Philippe d'Encausse, pole vaulter.
*24 March – Thierry Jarnet, jockey.
*28 March – Christophe Brunet, judoka.
*29 March – Nathalie Cardone, actress and singer.

April to June

*3 April – Mathieu Kassovitz, director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
*10 April – Bernard Pascual, soccer player.
*19 April – Philippe Saint-André, rugby union player.
*22 April – Valéry Grancher, Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.
*24 April – Lionel Pérez, soccer player.
*1 May – Nicolas Jean-Prost, ski jumper.
*11 May – Patricia Chauvet, alpine skier.
*22 May – Christophe Gagliano, judoka.
*31 May – Sandrine Bonnaire, actress.
*1 June – Olivier Delaître, tennis player.
*21 June – Pierre Omidyar, entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist.
*26 June
**Olivier Dahan, film director and screenwriter.
**Benoît Hamon, politician and MEP

July to September

*1 July – Jean-Claude Colotti, cyclist.
*8 July – Stéphane Belmondo, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.
*14 July – Valérie Pécresse, politician.
*16 July – Christophe Rocancourt, impostor and con artist.
*10 August – Jean-Guy Wallemme, soccer player, manager.
*15 August – Frédéric Nihous, politician.
*22 August – Valérie Rouzeau, poet and translator.
*31 August – Stéphane Haccoun, boxer.
*2 September – Fabrice Divert, soccer player.
*3 September – Hubert Fournier, soccer player.
*13 September – Franck Monnet, singer-songwriter.
*19 September – Philippe Raschke, soccer player.
*26 September – Eric Roy, soccer player.

October to December

*2 October – Fabien Cousteau, aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer.
*7 October – Fabrice Moreau, soccer player.
*13 October – Jean-Luc Dogon, soccer player.
*14 November – Raphaël Piolanti, hammer thrower.
*15 November – François Ozon, film director and screenwriter.
*23 November – Christophe Cocard, soccer player.
*5 December – Luc Jacquet, film director.
*10 December – Daniel Dutuel, soccer player.
*23 December – Carla Bruni, songwriter, singer and former model, third wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Full date unknown

*Stéphane Allagnon, film director and screenwriter.
*Hervé Cuillandre, novelist and photographer.
*Isabelle Dinoire, first person to undergo a partial face transplant. (died 2016)
*Benoît Lecomte, long distance swimmer.
*Frédéric Lepied, computer engineer.
*Quentin Meillassoux, philosopher.
*Sandrine Veysset, film director.

Deaths

January to June

*26 January – Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (born 1882).
*27 January – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (born 1888).
*19 April – Julien Peridier, electrical engineer and astronomer (born 1882).
*21 April – André-Louis Danjon, astronomer (born 1890).
*26 April – Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (born 1880).
*26 June – Françoise Dorléac, actress (born 1942).

July to December

*11 July – André Giriat, rower and Olympic medallist (born 1905).
*25 July – Pierre Albert-Birot, author (born 1876).
*28 July – Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (born 1906).
*1 August – Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (born 1880).
*12 August – Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (born 1904).
*18 August – Paule Maurice, composer (born 1910).
*27 August – Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (born 1904).
*11 September – Georges Saillard, actor (born 1877).
*18 September – Marcel Rey-Golliet, boxer (born 1893).
*20 September – Henri Mulet, organist and composer (born 1878).
*25 September – Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, painter (born 1872).
*9 October – André Maurois, author and man of letters (born 1885).
*13 October – Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (born 1904).
*14 October – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (born 1902).
*30 October – Julien Duvivier, film director (born 1896).
*6 November – Jean Dufay, astronomer (born 1896).

Full date unknown

*Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (born 1888).
*Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (born 1895).
*Marcelle Lalou, Tibetologist (born 1890).
*Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (born 1868).

See also

* List of French films of 1967

References

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