# 1999 in France

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Events from the year 1999 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Jacques Chirac
* Prime Minister: Lionel Jospin

## Events

* 1 January - The Euro Currency entered circulation in the digital transcation in the European Union (EU) Eurozone member area countries.
* 3 March – ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty by the French National Assembly.
* 17 March – ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty by the Senate.
* 24 March – A fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.
* 13 June – European Parliament election in France.
* 11 August – a total solar eclipse occurs in the north of France.
* September – The Peugeot 607 is launched to replace the unsuccessful decade-old 605.
* 13 October – Pacte civil de solidarité (a type of civil union) adopted by French Parliament.
* 12 December – a ship, Erika, breaks up near Penmarc'h spilling 37 000 tons of fuel, causing an oil slick on the Breton, Vendean and Charentaise coasts. Loire-Atlantique is particularly affected.
* 26 and 28 December – storms Lothar and Martin cause heavy damage with winds reaching 180 km/h. The total damage includes more than 90 dead, 6 billion euros paid by the insurers and 10,000 km$^2$ of forest devastated.

## Arts and literature

* 2 September – Publication of Jean-Marie Guéhenno's "L'avenir de la liberté – La démocratie dans la mondialisation", which examines the problems arising from confrontation between the democracy and globalisation

## Sport

* 27 June – French Grand Prix won by Rubens Barrichello of Brazil.
* 3 July – Tour de France begins.
* 25 July – Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States.

## Births

* 14 April – Matteo Guendouzi, soccer player
* 13 July – Julian Chartier, trampoline gymnast

### Full date unknown

* Certificat d'aptitude à l'enseignement aéronautique, a French national degree for aeronautics and space knowledge
* Mélusine Mayance, actress

## Deaths
### January

* 6 January – Michel Petrucciani, Jazz pianist (b. 1962).
* 19 January – Jacques Lecoq, actor, mime and acting instructor (b. 1921).
* 24 January – Roger Rondeaux, cyclo-cross racer (b. 1920).
* 25 January – Henri Rochereau, politician and European Commissioner (b. 1908).
* 26 January – Jeanne-Marie Darré, pianist (b. 1905).

### February

* 3 February – Luc Borrelli, soccer player (b. 1965)
* 4 February – Maurice Najman, journalist (born 1948)
* 12 February – André Devigny, soldier and French Resistance member (b. 1916)
* 18 February – Andreas Feininger, photographer (b. 1906)

### March

* 12 March – André Nocquet, aikido teacher (b. 1914).
* 17 March – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French Resistance member (b. 1905).
* 21 March – Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (b. 1901).

### May

* 25 May – René Gallice, soccer player (b. 1919).

### June

* 9 June – Maurice Journeau, composer (b. 1898).
* 19 June – Henri, comte de Paris, Orléanist claimant to the French throne (b. 1908).
* 28 June – Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (b. 1902).
* 30 June – Edouard Boubat, photographer (b. 1923).

### July to October

* 16 July – André Martinet, linguist (b. 1908).
* 30 July – Hermann Panzo, athlete (b. 1958).
* 22 August – Yann Goulet, sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist (b. 1914).
* 30 August – Raymond Poïvet, cartoonist (b. 1910).
* 14 September – Jehan Buhan, fencer (b. 1912).
* 15 September – Michel Pinseau, architect (b. 1924).
* 4 October – Bernard Buffet, painter (b. 1928).
* 27 October – Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer (b. 1903).

### November

* 3 November – Alan Heusaff, Breton nationalist and linguist (b. 1921).
* 9 November – Claude Ballot-Léna, motor racing driver (b. 1936).
* 11 November – Alphonse Antoine, cyclist (b. 1915).
* 21 November – Serge Lang, journalist, alpine skier, and founder of the alpine skiing World Cup (b. 1920).
* 25 November – Pierre Bézier, engineer (b. 1910).
* 27 November – Alain Peyrefitte, scholar and politician (b. 1925).

### December

* 6 December – Paul Bacon, politician (b. 1907).
* 18 December – Robert Bresson, film director (b. 1901).
* 23 December – Marcel Landowski, composer, biographer and arts administrator (b. 1915).
* 24 December – Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (b. 1907).
* 28 December – Pierre Clémenti, actor (b. 1942).
* 28 December – Louis Féraud, fashion designer and artist (b. 1921).

### Full date unknown

* Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist (b. 1903).
* Yann Goulet, sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany (b. 1914).
* René Le Hir, Breton nationalist (b. 1920).
* Laure Leprieur, radio personality (b. 1919).