1993 in France

See also: 1992 in France, other events of 1993, 1994 in France.

Events from the year 1993 in France.

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]
• 21 March - Legislative Election held.
• 28 March - Legislative Election held. Gaullists win a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.
• 1 May - Pierre Bérégovoy, former Prime Minister commits suicide.
• 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.

Arts and literature

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Sport

• 16 May - Marseille defeats A.C. Milan in the UEFA Champions League Final.
• 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.

Deaths

January to March

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

April to June

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

July to September

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

October to December

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

Full date unknown

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

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