1967 in France

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See also:	Other events of 1967 Timeline of French history

Events from the year 1967 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Charles de Gaulle
• Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou

Events

• 5 March - Legislative Election held.
• 12 March - Legislative Election held.
• 19 March - A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France.
• 29 March - The first French nuclear submarine, Le Redoutable, is launched.
• 6 April - Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
• 24 July - During an official state visit to Canada, President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!).
• 29 July - Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.
• 24 September - Cantonales Elections held.
• 1 October - Cantonales Elections held.
• 27 October - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again.
• 17 November - Author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia.
• 11 December - The Concorde aircraft is unveiled in Toulouse.

Sport

• 29 June - Tour de France begins.
• 23 July - Tour de France ends, won by Roger Pingeon.

Births

January to March

• 25 January - David Ginola, soccer player.
• 24 February - Jean-Charles Gicquel, high jumper.
• 2 March - Thierry Lacroix, rugby union player.
• 6 March - Hervé Piccirillo, soccer referee.
• 7 March - Jean-Pierre Barda, pop star and actor.
• 17 March - Nathalie Marquay, beauty queen.
• 24 March - Philippe d'Encausse, pole vaulter.
• 24 March - Thierry Jarnet, jockey.
• 28 March - Christophe Brunet, judoka.
• 29 March - Nathalie Cardone, actress and singer.

April to June

• 3 April - Mathieu Kassovitz, director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
• 10 April - Bernard Pascual, soccer player.
• 19 April - Philippe Saint-André, rugby union player.
• 22 April - Valéry Grancher, Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.
• 24 April - Lionel Pérez, soccer player.
• 1 May - Nicolas Jean-Prost, ski jumper.
• 11 May - Patricia Chauvet, alpine skier.
• 22 May - Christophe Gagliano, judoka.
• 31 May - Sandrine Bonnaire, actress.
• 1 June - Olivier Delaître, tennis player.
• 21 June - Pierre Omidyar, entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist.
• 26 June
  • Olivier Dahan, film director and screenwriter.
  • Benoît Hamon, politician and MEP

July to September

• 1 July - Jean-Claude Colotti, cyclist.
• 8 July - Stéphane Belmondo, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.
• 14 July - Valérie Pécresse, politician.
• 16 July - Christophe Rocancourt, impostor and con artist.
• 10 August - Jean-Guy Wallemme, soccer player, manager.
• 15 August - Frédéric Nihous, politician.
• 31 August - Stéphane Haccoun, boxer.
• 2 September - Fabrice Divert, soccer player.
• 3 September - Hubert Fournier, soccer player.
• 13 September - Franck Monnet, singer-songwriter.
• 19 September - Philippe Raschke, soccer player.
• 26 September - Éric Roy, soccer player.

October to December

• 2 October - Fabien Cousteau, aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer.
• 7 October - Fabrice Moreau, soccer player.
• 13 October - Jean-Luc Dogon, soccer player.
• 14 November - Raphaël Piolanti, hammer thrower.
• 15 November - François Ozon, film director and screenwriter.
• 23 November - Christophe Cocard, soccer player.
• 5 December - Luc Jacquet, film director.
• 10 December - Daniel Dutuel, soccer player.
• 23 December - Carla Bruni, songwriter, singer and former model, third wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Full date unknown

• Stéphane Allagnon, film director and screenwriter.
• Hervé Cuillandre, novelist and photographer.
• Isabelle Dinoire, first person to undergo a partial face transplant.
• Benoît Lecomte, long distance swimmer.
• Frédéric Lepied, computer engineer.
• Quentin Meillassoux, philosopher.
• Sandrine Veysset, film director.

Deaths

January to June

• 26 January - Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (born 1882).
• 27 January - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (born 1888).
• 19 April - Julien Peridier, electrical engineer and astronomer (born 1882).
• 21 April - André-Louis Danjon, astronomer (born 1890).
• 26 April - Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (born 1880).
• 26 June - Françoise Dorléac, actress (born 1942).

July to December

• 11 July - André Giriat, rower and Olympic medallist (born 1905).
• 25 July - Pierre Albert-Birot, author (born 1876).
• 28 July - Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (born 1906).
• 1 August - Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (born 1880).
• 12 August - Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (born 1904).
• 18 August - Paule Maurice, composer (born 1910).
• 27 August - Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (born 1904).
• 11 September - Georges Saillard, actor (born 1877).
• 18 September - Marcel Rey-Golliet, boxer (born 1893).
• 20 September - Henri Mulet, organist and composer (born 1878).
• 25 September - Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, painter (born 1872).
• 9 October - André Maurois, author and man of letters (born 1885).
• 13 October - Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (born 1904).
• 14 October - Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (born 1902).
• 30 October - Julien Duvivier, film director (born 1896).
• 6 November - Jean Dufay, astronomer (born 1896).

Full date unknown

• Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (born 1888).
• Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (born 1895).
• Marcelle Lalou, Tibetologist (born 1890).
• Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (born 1868).