1988 in France
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See also: 1987 in France, other events of 1988, 1989 in France.
Events from the year 1988 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 24 April - Presidential Election held.
- 8 May - Presidential Election held, won by François Mitterrand.
- 5 June - Legislative Election held.
- 12 June - Legislative Election held.
- 26 June - Air France Flight 296 Airbus A320 crashes at an airshow at Mulhouse killing three passengers.
- 26 June - Matignon Accords referendum held.
- 27 June - Gare de Lyon train accident results in 56 deaths.
- 25 September - Cantonales Elections held.
- 2 October - Cantonales Elections held.
[edit] Arts and Literature
[edit] Sport
- 4 July - Tour de France begins.
- 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Pedro Delgado of Spain.
[edit] Births
- 25 January - Tatiana Golovin, tennis player.
[edit] Deaths
- 20 January - Philippe de Rothschild, motor racing driver, scriptwriter, film producer, poet and wine grower (b.1902).
- 19 February - René Char, poet (b.1907).
- 19 February - André Frédéric Cournand, physician and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (b.1895).
