1970 in France

• 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). ==See also==