1958 in France

Events from the year 1958 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Rene Coty
• President of the Council of Ministers:
• until 14 May: Félix Gaillard
• 14 May-1 June: Pierre Pflimlin
• starting 1 June: Charles de Gaulle

Events

• 1 January
• The European Economic Community comes into being.
• Carrefour group set up.
• 13 May – Crisis caused by putsch attempt in Algiers involving French officers.
• 1 June – Charles de Gaulle is brought out of retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to lead France by decree for six months.
• 4 June – Charles de Gaulle visits Algeria.
• 28 September – A majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the French Fifth Republic.
• 2 October – Guinea declares itself independent from France, rejecting the new French constitution.
• 4 October – The new Constitution of France is signed into law, establishing the French Fifth Republic.
• 3 November – New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris.
• 23 November – Legislative Election held.
• 25 November – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• 28 November – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
• 30 November – Legislative Election held, to elect the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
• 1 December – Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
• 21 December – Presidential Election won by Charles de Gaulle with 78.5% of the votes.

Arts and literature

• Yves Klein releases his work IKB74 (one of his monochrome blue panels in his signature blue).

Sport

• 26 June – Tour de France begins.
• 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Charly Gaul of Luxembourg.

Births

• 19 January – Thierry Tusseau, international soccer player
• 6 April – Pascal Lecamp, politician
• 26 July – Thierry Gilardi, football and rugby commentator (died 2008)
• 16 August – Anne L'Huillier, atomic physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 31 August – Éric Zemmour, political journalist and author
• 2 September – Olivier Grouillard, racing driver
• 21 September – Bruno Fitoussi, poker player
• 2 October – Didier Sénac, footballer
• 26 October – Pascale Ogier, actress (died 1984)
• 24 November – Alain Chabat, actor and director

Deaths

• 13 February – Georges Rouault, painter and printmaker (born 1871)
• 14 August – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1900)
• 22 August – Roger Martin du Gard, author, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature (born 1881)
• 23 September – Robert Mercier, footballer (born 1909)
• 11 October – Maurice de Vlaminck, painter, printmaker and author (born 1876)

See also

• 1958 in French television
• List of French films of 1958

References