1994 in France

See also: 1993 in France, other events of 1994, 1995 in France.

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Events from the year 1994 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 January to March 5.2 April to June 5.3 July to September 5.4 October to December 5.5 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• 20 March - Cantonales Elections held.
• 24 March - Cantonales Elections held.
• 20 April - Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he served in the Vichy France Milice.
• 6 May - The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over 7 years to complete, opens between England and France. Passengers can now travel between the 2 countries in 35 minutes.
• 12 June - European Parliament election held in France.
• 30 June - Airbus A330 test flight crash in Toulouse, killing 3 crew and 4 passengers.
• 4 August - Toubon Law enacted.
• 3 November - A French magazine publishes photo of President François Mitterrand's secret daughter.
• 13 November - The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
• 24 December - Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked in Algiers airport.
• 26 December - Air France aircraft is flown to Marseille and stormed by the GIGN, 4 hijackers and 3 others were killed.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 2 July - Tour de France begins. Two stages take place in England.
• 3 July - French Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher of Germany.
• 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births

• 15 September - Raphael Severe, clarinet player.

Deaths

January to March

• 2 January - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b.1912).
• 15 January - Gabriel-Marie Garrone, Cardinal (b.1901).
• 22 January - Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director and mime artist (b.1910).
• 24 January - Yves Navarre, writer (b.1940).
• 27 January - Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (b.1907).
• 30 January - Pierre Boulle, novelist (b.1912).
• 11 February - Max Leognany, artist (b.1913).
• 16 February - François Marty, Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1904).
• 24 February - Jean Sablon, singer and actor (b.1906).
• 9 March - Paul Dubreil, mathematician (b.1904).
• 28 March – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b.1909).
• 31 March - Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (b.1898).

April to June

• 1 April - Robert Doisneau, photographer (b.1912).
• 3 April - Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (b.1926).
• 14 April - Jean Joyet, painter (b.1919).
• 20 April - Jean Carmet, actor (b.1920).
• 29 April - Marcel Bernard, tennis player (b.1914).
• 16 May - Alain Cuny, actor (b.1908).
• 19 May - Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (b.1912).
• 3 June - Puig Aubert, rugby league footballer (b. 1925).
• 14 June - Marcel Mouloudji, singer and actor (b.1922).
• 16 June - Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (b.1925).
• 27 June - Jacques Berthier, composer (b.1923).

July to September

• 8 July - Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (b.1904).
• 17 July - Jean Borotra, tennis player (b.1898).
• 7 August - Henri Lurié, engineer and philosopher (b.1905).
• 19 August - Louis de Froment, conductor (b.1921).
• 16 September - Albert Decourtray, Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1923).
• 23 September - Madeleine Renaud, actress (b.1900).
• 30 September - André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (b.1902).

October to December

• 15 October - Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (b.1904).
• 21 October - Benoît Régent, actor (b.1953).
• 30 November - Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (b.1931).
• 7 December - Pierre Cloarec, cyclist (b.1909).
• 13 December - Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (b.1891).
• 18 December - Roger Apéry, mathematician (b.1916).
• 25 December - Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (b.1907).

Full date unknown

• Gaston Charlot, chemist (b.1904).
• Louis Gabrillargues, soccer player (b.1914).
• Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (b.1906).
• Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (b.1904).

References