# 1970 in France

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Events from the year 1970 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Georges Pompidou
* Prime Minister: Jacques Chaban-Delmas

## Events

* 10 February – An avalanche at Val d'Isère kills 39 tourists.
* 8 March – Cantonales Elections held.
* 15 March – Cantonales Elections held.
* 25 March – Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).
* 11 April – 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps.
* 19 May – Barbapapa was created by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor.
* 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 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Isère, kills 146.
* Undated
** Citroen launches two new models: the GS family saloon and estate, and the SM sporting coupe. The Citroen GS is voted European Car of the Year.
** Establishment of Parc naturel régional de Camargue.

## Sport

* 27 June – Tour de France begins.
* 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.

## Births
### January to March

* 10 January – Christine Malèvre, serial killer.
* 28 January – Laurent Levesque, film score composer.
* 29 January
** Jacqueline Delord, swimmer
** Olivier Edmond, golfer.
* 3 February – Franck Gava, soccer player.
* 6 February – Patrice Loko, soccer player.
* 14 February – Guillaume Raoux, tennis player.
* 17 February – Philippe Bernat-Salles, international rugby union player.
* 4 March – Amélie Sarn, author, comic book writer and translator.
* 7 March – Nathalie Lancien, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist.
* 12 March – Marine Delterme, actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
* 13 March – Stéphane Goubert, cyclist.
* 21 March – Franck David, sailor and Olympic gold medallist.
* 27 March – Gedeon Naudet, filmmaker.
* 28 March – Benjamin Castaldi, television personality

### April to June

* 10 April – Christophe Honoré, writer and film director.
* 14 April – Richard Sainct, Rally Raid Motorcycle rider (d.2004).
* 15 April – Luc Marquet, volleyball player.
* 24 April – Jean-Philippe Belloc, motor racing driver.
* 3 May – Alexia Dechaume-Balleret, tennis player.
* 5 May – Laurent Crost, judoka.
* 13 May – Wilfrid Boulineau, decathlete.
* 21 May – Pierre Billaud, radio reporter and journalist, killed in Afghanistan (d.2001).
* 22 May – Guillaume Warmuz, soccer player.
* 15 June – Gaëlle Méchaly, soprano.
* 18 June – Ludovic Pollet, soccer player.
* 27 June – Régine Cavagnoud, alpine skier (d.2001).
* 27 June – Christophe Deguerville, soccer player.
* 30 June – Emmanuel Mouret, actor, director and screenwriter

### July to September

* 9 July – Benoit Pierre Emery, fashion designer.
* 18 August – Cédric Vasseur, cyclist.
* 20 August – Loïc De Kergret, volleyball player.
* 28 August – Loïc Leferme, free diver (d.2007).
* 3 September – Franck Chambilly, judoka.
* 6 September – Stéphane Guivarc'h, international soccer player.
* 9 September – Pierre Laigle, soccer player.
* 10 September – Julie Halard-Decugis, tennis player.
* 18 September – Didier Rous, cyclist.
* 22 September – Emmanuel Petit, soccer player.

### October to December

* 23 October – Stéphane Nomis, judoka.
* 27 October – Alain Boghossian, soccer player.
* 5 November – Laurent D'Jaffo, soccer player.
* 11 November – Gilles Grimandi, soccer player.
* 15 November – Franck Rabarivony, soccer player.
* 25 November – Bruno Girard, boxer.
* 13 December – Pierre Laurent, soccer player.
* 15 December – Corinne Favre, ski mountaineer and mountain runner.
* 30 December – Frédéric Tatarian, soccer player.

### Full date unknown

* Julien Lourau, jazz saxophonist.
* Vincent Paronnaud, comics artist and filmmaker.

## Deaths
### January to March

* 4 January – Jean-Étienne Valluy, general (b. 1899).
* 8 January – Georges Guibourg, French actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1891)
* 20 January – François Tanguy-Prigent, politician and resistance fighter (b. 1909).
* 25 January – Jane Bathori, opera singer (b. 1877).
* 29 January – Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (b. 1902).
* 1 February – Eugène Christophe, cyclist (b. 1885).
* 20 February – Gaston Modot, actor (b. 1887).
* 17 March – Jérôme Carcopino, historian and author (b. 1881).
* 22 March – Georges Malkine, painter (b. 1898).

### April to June

* 10 April – Henri Marchal, archaeologist (b. 1876).
* 22 May – Georges Limbour, writer (b. 1900).
* 23 May – René Capitant, lawyer and politician (b. 1901).
* 2 June – Albert Lamorisse, filmmaker, producer and writer (b. 1922).
* 6 June – Camille Bombois, naïve painter (b. 1883).
* 15 June – Henri Queuille, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France (b. 1884).
* 16 June – Elsa Triolet, writer (b. 1896).
* 27 June – Pierre Mac Orlan, novelist and songwriter (b. 1882).

### July to September

* 10 July – Félix Gaillard, Radical politician and Prime Minister of France (b. 1919).
* 11 July – André Lurçat, architect (b. 1894).
* 19 July – Henri Lauvaux, athlete and Olympic medallist (b. 1900).
* 30 July – Jean d'Eaubonne, art director (b. 1903).
* 5 August – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister (b. 1888).
* 25 August – Marcel Allain, writer (b. 1885).
* 1 September – François Mauriac, author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1885).
* 2 September – Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician (b. 1898).
* 5 September – André Simon, wine merchant, gourmet and writer (b. 1877).
* 23 September – Bourvil, actor and singer (b. 1917).

### October to December

* 8 October – Jean Giono, author (b. 1895).
* 9 October – Edmond Michelet, politician (b. 1899).
* 10 October – Édouard Daladier, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France (b. 1884).
* 18 October – Jean De Briac, actor (b. 1891).
* 2 November – Pierre Veyron, motor racing driver (b. 1903).
* 6 November – Henri Jeanson, writer and journalist (b. 1900).
* 9 November – Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President (b. 1890).
* 1 December – Hermine David, painter (b. 1886).
* 7 December – Émile Girardeau, engineer (b. 1882).
* 16 December – Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister (b. 1886).
* 18 December – Marc Boegner, theologist, pastor, French Resistance member and essayist (d.1881).

### Full date unknown

* Lucienne Abraham, Trotskyist politician (b. 1916).
* Maurice Lafforgue, alpine skier (b. 1913).