1970 in France
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See also: 1969 in France, other events of 1970, 1971 in France.
Events from the year 1970 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 10 February - An avalanche at Val d'Isère kills 39 tourists.
- 8 March - Cantonales Elections held.
- 15 March - Cantonales Elections held.
- 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.
[edit] Sport
- 27 June - Tour de France begins.
- 19 July - Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.
[edit] Births
- 28 August - Loïc Leferme, free diver (d.2007).
[edit] Deaths
- 4 January - Jean-Étienne Valluy, general (b.1899).
- 25 January - Jane Bathori, opera singer (b.1877).
- 2 June - Albert Lamorisse, filmmaker, producer and writer (b.1922).
- 1 September - François Mauriac, author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b.1885).
- 2 September - Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician (b.1898).
- 9 November - Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President (b.1890).
