1994 in France
# 1994 in France

Events from the year 1994 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: François Mitterrand
* Prime Minister: Édouard Balladur

## Events

* 20 March – Cantonales Elections held.
* 24 March – Cantonales Elections held.
* 20 April – Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of seven Jews at Rillieux-la-Pape in June 1944, becoming the first French national to be charged with crimes against humanity committed during the German occupation of France in the Second World War.
* 6 May – The Channel Tunnel is opened by President François Mitterrand and Elizabeth II in two separate ceremonies held in Calais and Folkestone.
* 12 June – European Parliament election held in France.
* 30 June – Airbus A330 test flight crash in Toulouse, killing 3 crew and 4 passengers.
* 4 August – Toubon Law enacted.
* 3 November – A French magazine publishes photo of President François Mitterrand's secret daughter.
* 13 November – The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
* 7 December – L'étrange Noël de monsieur Jack on French Movie Theater
* 24 December – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked in Algiers airport.
* 26 December – Air France aircraft is flown to Marseille and stormed by the GIGN, 4 hijackers and 3 others were killed.

## Sport

* 2 July – Tour de France begins. Two stages take place in England.
* 3 July – Michael Schumacher wins the French Grand Prix held at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.
* 24 July – Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

## Births

* 6 January – Margaux Pinot, judoka
* 19 January – Adrien Hunou, footballer
* 23 January – Wesley Jobello, footballer
* 13 February – Axel Reymond, Marathon swimmer
* 3 March – Abdoulaye Touré, footballer
* 27 May – Aymeric Laporte, footballer
* 13 June – Guy-Elphège Anouman, sprinter
* 14 June – Romain Habran, footballer
* 17 July – Benjamin Mendy, footballer
* 3 August – Corentin Tolisso, footballer
* 17 August – Tiémoué Bakayoko, footballer
* 15 September – Raphael Severe, clarinet player
* 27 October – Kurt Zouma, footballer
* 8 November – Damien Dussaut, footballer

## Deaths

### January to March

* 2 January – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (born 1912)
* 15 January – Gabriel-Marie Garrone, cardinal (born 1901)
* 22 January – Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director and mime artist (born 1910)
* 24 January – Yves Navarre, writer (born 1940)
* 27 January – Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (born 1907)
* 30 January – Pierre Boulle, novelist (born 1912)
* 11 February – Max Leognany, artist (born 1913)
* 16 February – François Marty, Roman Catholic crdinal (born 1904)
* 24 February – Jean Sablon, singer and actor (born 1906)
* 9 March – Paul Dubreil, mathematician (born 1904)
* 28 March – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (born 1909)
* 31 March – Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (born 1898)

### April to June

* 1 April – Robert Doisneau, photographer (born 1912)
* 3 April – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (born 1926)
* 9 April – Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (born 1906)
* 14 April – Jean Joyet, painter (born 1919)
* 17 April – Gaston Charlot, chemist (born 1904)
* 20 April – Jean Carmet, actor (born 1920)
* 29 April – Marcel Bernard, tennis player (born 1914)
* 16 May – Alain Cuny, actor (born 1908)
* 19 May – Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (born 1912)
* 3 June – Puig Aubert, rugby league footballer (born 1925)
* 14 June – Marcel Mouloudji, singer and actor (born 1922)
* 16 June – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (born 1925)
* 27 June – Jacques Berthier, composer (born 1923)

### July to September

* 8 July – Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (born 1904)
* 17 July – Jean Borotra, tennis player (born 1898)
* 19 August – Louis de Froment, conductor (born 1921)
* 16 September – Albert Decourtray, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1923)
* 23 September – Madeleine Renaud, actress (born 1900)
* 30 September – André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (born 1902)

### October to December

* 15 October – Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (born 1904)
* 21 October – Benoît Régent, actor (born 1953)
* 18 November – Henri Choussat, gerontologist (born 1906)
* 30 November
   * Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (born 1931)
   * Louis Gabrillargues, soccer player (born 1914)
* 7 December – Pierre Cloarec, cyclist (born 1909)
* 13 December – Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1891)
* 18 December – Roger Apéry, mathematician (born 1916)
* 25 December – Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (born 1907)

### Full date unknown

* Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (born 1904)
