1988 in France
# 1988 in France

Events from the year 1988 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: François Mitterrand
* Prime Minister: Jacques Chirac (until 10 May), Michel Rocard (starting 10 May)

## Events

* 29 March – African National Congress representative Dulcie September assassinated in Paris.
* 22 April–5 May – The Ouvéa cave hostage taking takes place in Ouvéa, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.
* 24 April – Presidential Election held.
* 8 May – Presidential Election held, won by François Mitterrand.
* 5 June – Legislative Election held.
* 12 June – Legislative Election held.
* 26 June – Air France Flight 296 Airbus A320 crashes at an airshow at Mulhouse killing three passengers.
* 26 June – Matignon Accords referendum held.
* 27 June – Gare de Lyon train accident results in 56 deaths.
* 21 July – Renault launches the R19 hatchback range, which replaces the Renault 11 hatchback. A saloon model to replace the Renault 9 is expected soon.
* August – Construction begins on the Euro Disney resort and theme park east of Paris; it is expected to be open within three years.
* 26 August – Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until 1 August 2006.
* 25 September – Cantonales Elections held.
* 2 October – Cantonales Elections held.
* 28 October – Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the Government of France.

## Births

### January to March

* 5 January – Pauline, singer and songwriter.
* 16 January – Benoît Richaud, ice dancer.
* 25 January – Tatiana Golovin, tennis player.
* 7 February – Albin Hodža, footballer
* 12 February – Guillaume Borne, soccer player.
* 24 February
   * Mathieu Baudry, footballer
   * Rodrigue Beaubois, basketball player
* 27 February – Sandy Paillot, soccer player.
* 5 March – Damien Plessis, soccer player.
* 10 March – Kévin Olimpa, soccer player.
* 27 March – Quentin Othon, soccer player.
* 28 March – Mélodie Chataigner, pair skater.
* 31 March – Mickael Charvet, soccer player.

### April to June

* 21 April – Ibrahima Traoré, soccer player.
* 4 May – Simon Pontdemé, soccer player.
* 18 May – Paul Baysse, soccer player.
* 12 June – Matthias Lepiller, soccer player.
* 29 June – Adrian Mannarino, tennis player

### July to September

* 4 July – Angélique Boyer, actress.
* 11 July – Étienne Capoue, soccer player.
* 14 July – Jérémy Stravius, swimmer
* 8 August – Flavia Bujor, novelist.
* 16 August – Christophe Pourcel, motocross rider.
* 18 August – Wilfried Domoraud, soccer player.
* 19 August – Kévin Monnet-Paquet, soccer player.
* 25 August – Malaury Martin, soccer player.
* 31 August – Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Miss France in 2007.
* 6 September – Jean-Yves Mvoto, soccer player.
* 16 September – Kim Lucine, figure skater.

### October to December

* 12 December – Kévin Bru, soccer player.
* 14 December – Nicolas Batum, basketball player.
* 15 December – Floyd Ayité, soccer player.

## Deaths

### January to March

* 9 January – Thierry Maulnier, journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (born 1909).
* 20 January – Philippe de Rothschild, motor racing driver, scriptwriter, film producer, poet and wine grower (born 1902).
* 2 February
   * Alain Savary, politician and Minister (born 1918).
   * René Massigli, diplomat (born 1888).
* 16 February – Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (born 1911).
* 19 February – René Char, poet (born 1907).
* 19 February – André Frédéric Cournand, physician and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (born 1895).
* 6 March – Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (born 1906).
* 19 March – Francis Lefebvre, physician (born 1916).
* 21 March – Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (born 1895).
* 30 March – Edgar Faure, politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (born 1908).
* 31 March – Georges Lévis, comic artist (born 1924).

### April to June

* 14 April – Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (born 1904).
* 18 April – Pierre Desproges, humorist (born 1939).
* 24 May – Ernest Labrousse, historian (born 1895).
* 24 June – Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (born 1913).

### July to September

* 15 July – Armand Mouyal, epee fencer (born 1925).
* 31 July – André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (born 1911).
* 1 August – Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (born 1907).
* 11 August
   * Pauline Lafont, actress (born 1963).
   * Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director (born 1932).
* 20 August – Jean-Paul Aron, writer and journalist (born 1925).
* 25 August – Françoise Dolto, physician and psychoanalyst (born 1908).

### October to December

* 14 October – René Vietto, cyclist (born 1914).
* 23 October – André Neher, Jewish scholar and philosopher (born 1914).
* 10 November – Jean Leray, mathematician (born 1906)
* 11 November – Émile Muller, politician (born 1915).
* 4 December – Fernand Mourlot, printer and publisher (born 1895).
* 13 December – André Jaunet, flautist (born 1911).
* 29 December – Émile Aillaud, architect (born 1902).

### Full date unknown

* Serge Mouille, industrial designer and goldsmith (born 1922).
* Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (born 1902).
