1967 in France

• President: Charles de Gaulle • Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou ==Events==

• 5 March – Legislative Election held. • 12 March – Legislative Election held. • 19 March – A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France. • 6 April – Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government. • 28 April – Elf Aquitaine petroleum brand launched. • 24 July – During an official state visit to Canada, President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). • 29 July – Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum. • 24 September – Cantonales Elections held. • 1 October – Cantonales Elections held. • 17 November – Author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia. • 27 November – Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again. • 11 December – The Concorde aircraft is unveiled in Toulouse. ==Sport==

• 29 June – Tour de France begins. • 23 July – Tour de France ends, won by Roger Pingeon. ==Births==

January to March • 25 January – David Ginola, soccer player. • 24 February – Jean-Charles Gicquel, high jumper. • 28 February – Laurence Treil, model and actress. • 2 March – Thierry Lacroix, rugby union player. • 6 March – Hervé Piccirillo, soccer referee. • 7 March – Jean-Pierre Barda, pop star and actor. • 17 March – Nathalie Marquay, beauty queen. • 24 March – Philippe d'Encausse, pole vaulter. • 24 March – Thierry Jarnet, jockey. • 25 March – Marie-Agnès Poussier-Winsback, politician • 28 March – Christophe Brunet, judoka. • 29 March – Nathalie Cardone, actress and singer. April to June • 3 April – Mathieu Kassovitz, director, screenwriter, producer and actor. • 10 April – Bernard Pascual, soccer player. • 19 April – Philippe Saint-André, rugby union player. • 22 April – Valéry Grancher, Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer. • 24 April – Lionel Pérez, soccer player. • 1 May – Nicolas Jean-Prost, ski jumper. • 11 May – Patricia Chauvet, alpine skier. • 22 May – Christophe Gagliano, judoka. • 31 May – Sandrine Bonnaire, actress. • 1 June – Olivier Delaître, tennis player. • 7 June – Armand Schiele, alpine skier • 21 June – Pierre Omidyar, entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist. • 26 June • Olivier Dahan, film director and screenwriter. • Benoît Hamon, politician and MEP July to September • 1 July – Jean-Claude Colotti, cyclist. • 8 July – Stéphane Belmondo, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. • 14 July – Valérie Pécresse, politician. • 16 July – Christophe Rocancourt, impostor and con artist. • 10 August – Jean-Guy Wallemme, soccer player, manager. • 15 August – Frédéric Nihous, politician. • 22 August – Valérie Rouzeau, poet and translator. • 31 August – Stéphane Haccoun, boxer. • 2 September – Fabrice Divert, soccer player. • 3 September – Hubert Fournier, soccer player. • 13 September – Franck Monnet, singer-songwriter. • 19 September – Philippe Raschke, soccer player. • 26 September – Eric Roy, soccer player. October to December • 2 October – Fabien Cousteau, aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer. • 7 October – Fabrice Moreau, soccer player. • 13 October – Jean-Luc Dogon, soccer player. • 14 November – Raphaël Piolanti, hammer thrower. • 15 November – François Ozon, film director and screenwriter. • 23 November – Christophe Cocard, soccer player. • 5 December – Luc Jacquet, film director. • 10 December – Daniel Dutuel, soccer player. • 23 December – Carla Bruni, songwriter, singer and former model, third wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Full date unknown • Stéphane Allagnon, film director and screenwriter. • Hervé Cuillandre, novelist and photographer. • Isabelle Dinoire, first person to undergo a partial face transplant. (died 2016) • Benoît Lecomte, long distance swimmer. • Frédéric Lepied, computer engineer. • Quentin Meillassoux, philosopher. • Sandrine Veysset, film director. ==Deaths==

January to June • 26 January – Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (born 1882). • 27 January – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (born 1888). • 19 April – Julien Peridier, electrical engineer and astronomer (born 1882). • 21 April – André-Louis Danjon, astronomer (born 1890). • 26 April – Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (born 1880). • 26 June – Françoise Dorléac, actress (born 1942). July to December • 11 July – André Giriat, rower and Olympic medallist (born 1905). • 25 July – Pierre Albert-Birot, author (born 1876). • 28 July – Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (born 1906). • 1 August – Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (born 1880). • 12 August – Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (born 1904). • 18 August – Paule Maurice, composer (born 1910). • 27 August – Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (born 1904). • 11 September – Georges Saillard, actor (born 1877). • 18 September – Marcel Rey-Golliet, boxer (born 1893). • 20 September – Henri Mulet, organist and composer (born 1878). • 25 September – Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, painter (born 1872). • 9 October – André Maurois, author and man of letters (born 1885). • 13 October – Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (born 1904). • 14 October – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (born 1902). • 30 October – Julien Duvivier, film director (born 1896). • 6 November – Jean Dufay, astronomer (born 1896). Full date unknown • Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (born 1888). • Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (born 1895). • Marcelle Lalou, Tibetologist (born 1890). • Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (born 1868). ==See also==