1990 In France

Events from the year 1990 in France.

Incumbents

* President: François Mitterrand
* Prime Minister: Michel Rocard

Events

*15 May – Launch of the Renault Clio supermini, which will eventually replace the Renault 5.
*13 July – Loi Gayssot enacted, prohibiting Holocaust denial.
*14 July – Jean-Michel Jarre performs Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert before a world record audience of 2.5 million people.
*December – ''Espace Euro Disney'', an information hub on the under construction Euro Disney resort near Paris, is opened to the public.
*1 December – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.

Arts and literature

Sport

*30 June – Tour de France begins.
*8 July – French Grand Prix won by Alain Prost.
*22 July – Tour de France ends, won by Greg LeMond of the United States.

Births

*10 January – Richard Philippe, motor racing driver.
*22 January – Alizé Cornet, tennis player.
*15 February – Charles Pic, motor racing driver.
*20 May – Adeline Canac, pair skater.
*4 June – Tippi Degré, animal handler.
*12 June – Jérôme Jarre, vine star.
*12 August – Wissam Ben Yedder, footballer.
*21 October – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, chess grandmaster.
*22 December – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, actor and singer.

Deaths

January to March

*10 January – Juliet Berto, actress (b. 1947).
*16 January – Robert Lamartine, soccer player (b. 1935).
*17 January – Charles Hernu, politician and Minister (b. 1923).
*5 February – Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (b. 1895).
*5 February – Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (b. 1906).
*15 February – Michel Drach, film director, writer, producer and actor (b. 1930).
*7 March – Claude Arrieu, composer (b. 1903).
*12 March – Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (b. 1897).
*17 March – Capucine, actress (b. 1928).
*20 March – Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1907).

April to June

*21 April – Romain de Tirtoff, artist and designer (b. 1892).
*30 June – Jacques Lob, comic book creator (b. 1932).

July to September

*18 July – Yves Chaland, cartoonist (b. 1957).
*23 July – Pierre Gandon, illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b. 1899).
*25 July – Jean Fourastié, economist (b. 1907).
*1 August – Michel Arnaud, General (b. 1915).
*6 August – Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist (b. 1912).
*15 August – Louis Vola, double bass player (b. 1902).
*20 August – Maurice Gendron, cellist and teacher (b. 1920).
*30 September – Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (b. 1901).

October to December

*20 October – Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (b. 1906).
*22 October – Louis Althusser, Marxist philosopher (b. 1918).
*27 October – Jacques Demy, film director (b. 1931).
*October – Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (b. 1898).
*5 November – Raymond Oliver, chef and restaurateur (b. 1909).
*17 November – Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor (b. 1905).
*1 December – Simone Melchior, wife and business partner of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (b. 1919).
*18 December – Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (b. 1914).
*19 December – Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (b. 1907).
*23 December – Serge Danot, animator (b. 1931).
*23 December – Pierre Gripari, writer (b. 1925).

Full date unknown

*Jacques-Laurent Bost, journalist (b. 1916).
*Daniel du Janerand, painter (b. 1919).
* Marcel Légaut, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1900).
* Claude Ponsard, economist (b. 1927).

See also

* List of French films of 1990

References

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