1988 in France

"See also:"
1987 in France,
other events of 1988,
1989 in France.

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Events from the year 1988 in France.

Events

*29 March - African National Congress representative Dulcie September assassinated in Paris.
*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.
*26 August - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until 1 August, 2006.
*25 September - Cantonales Elections held.
*2 October - Cantonales Elections held.
*28 October - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the Government of France.

Arts and Literature

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*4 July - Tour de France begins.
*24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Pedro Delgado of Spain.

Births

January to March

*5 January - Pauline, singer and songwriter.
*16 January - Benoît Richaud, ice dancer.
*25 January - Tatiana Golovin, tennis player.
*12 February - Guillaume Borne, soccer player.
*27 February - Sandy Paillot, soccer player.
*5 March - Damien Plessis, soccer player.
*10 March - Kévin Olimpa, soccer player.
*27 March - Quentin Othon, soccer player.
*28 March - Mélodie Chataigner, pair skater.
*31 March - Mickael Charvet, soccer player.

April to June

*21 April - Ibrahima Traoré, soccer player.
*4 May - Simon Pontdemé, soccer player.
*18 May - Paul Baysse, soccer player.
*12 June - Matthias Lepiller, soccer player.

July to September

*4 July - Angélique Boyer, actress.
*11 July - Étienne Capoue, soccer player.
*8 August - Flavia Bujor, novelist.
*16 August - Christophe Pourcel, motocross rider.
*18 August - Wilfried Domoraud, soccer player.
*19 August - Kévin Monnet-Paquet, soccer player.
*25 August - Malaury Martin, soccer player.
*31 August - Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Miss France in 2007.
*6 September - Jean-Yves Mvoto, soccer player.
*16 September - Kim Lucine, figure skater.

October to December

*12 December - Kévin Bru, soccer player.
*14 December - Nicolas Batum, basketball player.
*15 December - Floyd Ayité, soccer player.

Deaths

January to March

*20 January - Philippe de Rothschild, motor racing driver, scriptwriter, film producer, poet and wine grower (b.1902).
*2 February - Alain Savary, politician and Minister (b.1918).
*3 February - René Massigli, diplomat (b.1888).
*16 February - Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (b.1911).
*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).
*6 March - Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (b.1906).
*19 March - Francis Lefebure, physician (b.1916).
*21 March - Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (b.1895).
*30 March - Edgar Faure, politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (b.1908).
*31 March - Georges Lévis, comic artist (b.1924).

April to June

*14 April - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (b.1904).
*18 April - Pierre Desproges, humorist (b.1939).

July to September

*15 July - Armand Mouyal, epee fencer (b.1925).
*31 July - André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (b.1911).
*1 August - Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (b.1907).
*11 August - Pauline Lafont, actress (b.1963).
*11 August - Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director (b.1932).
*20 August - Jean-Paul Aron, writer and journalist (b.1925).

October to December

*14 October - René Vietto, cyclist (b.1914).
*11 November - Émile Muller, politician (b.1915).
*13 December - André Jaunet, flautist (b.1911).

Full date unknown

*Émile Aillaud, architect (b.1902).
*Françoise Dolto, physician and psychoanalyst (b.1908).
*Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (b.1913).
*Ernest Labrousse, historian (b.1895).
*Pierre Langlais, military officer (b.1909).
*Thierry Maulnier, journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (b.1908).
*Serge Mouille, industrial designer and goldsmith (b.1922).
*Fernand Mourlot, printer and publisher (b.1895).
*André Neher, Jewish scholar and philosopher (b.1914).
*Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (b.1902).

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