1990 in France

See also: 1989 in France, 1991 in France.

Events from the year 1990 in France.

Events

• 15 May - Launch of the Renault Clio supermini, which will eventually replace the Renault 5.^[1]
• 13 July - Loi Gayssot enacted, prohibiting Holocaust denial.
• December - Espace Euro Disney, an information hub on the under construction Euro Disney resort near Paris, is opened to the public.^[2]
• 1 December - Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.

Arts and literature

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Sport

• 30 June - Tour de France begins.
• 8 July - French Grand Prix won by Alain Prost.
• 22 July - Tour de France ends, won by Greg LeMond of the United States.

Births

• 10 January - Richard Philippe, motor racing driver.
• 22 January - Alizé Cornet, tennis player.
• 15 February - Charles Pic, motor racing driver.
• 20 May - Adeline Canac, pair skater.
• 4 June - Tippi Degré, animal handler.
• 21 October - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, chess grandmaster.
• 22 December - Jean-Baptiste Maunier, actor and singer.

Deaths

January to March

• 10 January - Juliet Berto, actress (b.1947).
• 16 January - Robert Lamartine, soccer player (b.1935).
• 17 January - Charles Hernu, politician and Minister (b.1923).
• 5 February - Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (b.1895).
• 5 February - Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (b.1906).
• 15 February - Michel Drach, film director, writer, producer and actor (b.1930).
• 7 March - Claude Arrieu, composer (b.1903).
• 12 March - Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (b.1897).
• 17 March - Capucine, actress (b.1928).
• 20 March - Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b.1907).

April to June

• 21 April - Romain de Tirtoff, artist and designer (b.1892).
• 30 June - Jacques Lob, comic book creator (b.1932).

July to September

• 18 July - Yves Chaland, cartoonist (b.1957).
• 23 July - Pierre Gandon, illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b.1899).
• 25 July - Jean Fourastié, economist (b.1907).
• 1 August - Michel Arnaud, General (b.1915).
• 6 August - Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist (b.1912).
• 15 August - Louis Vola, double bass player (b.1902).
• 20 August - Maurice Gendron, cellist and teacher (b.1920).
• 30 September - Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (b.1901).

October to December

• 22 October - Louis Althusser, Marxist philosopher (b.1918).
• 27 October - Jacques Demy, film director (b.1931).
• October - Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (b.1898).
• 17 November - Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor (b.1905).
• 18 December - Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (b.1914).
• 19 December - Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (b.1907).
• 23 December - Serge Danot, animator (b.1931).
• 23 December - Pierre Gripari, writer (b.1925).

Full date unknown

• Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (b.1906).
• Jacques-Laurent Bost, journalist (b.1916).
• Daniel du Janerand, painter (b.1919).
• Marcel Légaut, philosopher and mathematician (b.1900).
• Simone Melchior, wife and business partner of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (b.1919).
• Raymond Oliver, chef and restaurateur (b.1909).
• Claude Ponsard, economist (b.1927).

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