1993 in France

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Events from the year 1993 in France.

Incumbents

• President: François Mitterrand
• Prime Minister: Pierre Bérégovoy (until 29 March), Édouard Balladur (starting 29 March)

Events

• 18 February – Peugeot launches the 306 range of hatchbacks, estates, convertibles and saloons, which will mainly be built at Peugeot's factory near Coventry in England, which was formerly owned by the Rootes Group and the now-defunct European division of Chrysler.^[1]
• 7 March – Citroën launches the Xantia^[2] five-door hatchback, which replaces the 10-year-old BX. An estate model is due next year.^[3]
• 20 March - Peugeot launched the 306 hatchback, which replaces the 309 and some versions of the 205.
• 28 March – Legislative Election held. Gaullists win a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.
• 26 May – Olympique Marseille become the first French team to win the European Cup when a Basile Boli goal gives them a 1–0 win over AC Milan in the final in Munich.^[4]
• 8 June – In Paris, Christian Didier breaks into the home of René Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator, and shoots him dead.
• 13 October – The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in Mauritius.
• December – The Renault Laguna is launched as a hatchback to replace the Renault 21 hatchback and saloon, although the Savanna estate will continue until 1995 when the Laguna estate is launched.
• 2 December – The announced merger (6 September) between Renault and Volvo fails.
• 10 December – Air France Flight 2306 is hijacked by a knife-wielding Algerian criminal. He is arrested in Nice by the police. No passengers were injured.

Sport

• 16 May – Marseille defeats A.C. Milan in the UEFA Champions League Final, becoming the first French team to win the European Cup.
• 3 July – Tour de France begins.
• 4 July – French Grand Prix won by Alain Prost.
• 25 July – Tour de France ends won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births

• 1 September – Ilona Mitrecey, singer.
• 13 September - Alexia Sedykh, hammer thrower

Deaths

January to March

• 13 January – René Pleven, politician (born 1901).
• 13 January – Charles Tillon, politician (born 1897).
• 21 January – Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause (born 1932).
• 27 January – André the Giant, professional wrestler (born 1946).
• 2 February – Jean Lecanuet, politician (born 1920).
• 8 February – Roland Mousnier, historian (born 1907).
• 10 February – Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1914).
• 30 March – Andrée Brunet, figure skater (born 1901).

April to June

• 1 April – Andrée Brunin, poet (born 1937).
• 1 May – Pierre Bérégovoy, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1925).
• 22 May – Alfred Vaucher, theologian, church historian and bibliographer (born 1887).
• 4 June – André Girard, civil servant and Resistance worker (born 1909).
• 8 June – René Bousquet, civil servant, served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police (born 1909).
• 14 June – Louis Jacquinot, lawyer and politician (born 1898).
• 18 June – Jean Cau, writer and journalist (born 1925).
• 19 June – Marcel Béalu, writer (born 1908).

July to September

• 21 July – René-Jean Jacquet, soccer player (born 1933).
• 14 July – Léo Ferré, poet, composer, singer and musician (born 1916).
• 1 August – Jean-Pierre Abbat, joint first person in the USA to manufacture polyurethane (born 1928).
• 16 August – René Dreyfus, motor racing driver (born 1905).
• 4 September – Hervé Villechaize, actor (born 1943).
• 5 September – Claude Renoir, cinematographer (born 1914).

October to December

• 1 November – Clément Dupont, rugby union player (born 1899).
• 16 November – Achille Zavatta, clown and circus operator (born 1915).
• 13 December – Vanessa Duriès, novelist (born 1972).
• 18 December – Georges Bégué, engineer and Special Operations Executive agent (born 1911).
• 23 December – Sylvia Bataille, actress (born 1908).
• 25 December – Pierre Victor Auger, physicist (born 1899).
• 27 December – André Pilette, motor racing driver (born 1918).

Full date unknown

• Christian Metz, film theorist (born 1931).
• Roger Michelot, boxer (born 1912).
• Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (born 1904).

Animal births

• Helissio, thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1996 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (died 2013).

See also

• List of French films of 1993

References

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