1977 in France

Events from the year 1977 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
• Prime Minister: Raymond Barre

Events

• 13 March – Municipal Elections held.
• 20 March – Municipal Elections held.
• 27 June – Djibouti receives its independence from France.
• 10 September – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world.
• 7 December – Launch of the Simca Horizon, a five-door medium-sized hatchback which will also be built in Britain as a Chrysler and the US as a Plymouth and Dodge. It replaces the Simca 1100 in France, and runs alongside the Chrysler Avenger saloon and estate in Britain.

Arts and literature

• 31 January – Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris officially opened.
• 7 May – Marie Myriam wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 for France with her song "L'oiseau et l'enfant" ("The Bird and the Child").

Sport

• 30 June – Tour de France begins.
• 24 July – Tour de France ends, won by Bernard Thévenet.

Births

January to March

• 3 January – Stéphane Pignol, soccer player
• 4 January
• Louisa Baïleche, singer, dancer and performer
• Jonathan Cochet, motor racing driver
• 11 January – Jérôme Kerviel, trader convicted of fraud for the 2008 Société Générale trading loss
• 26 January – Jean-Michel Sigere, soccer player
• 27 January – Siramana Dembélé, soccer player
• 29 January – Alexandre Rousselet, cross-country skier
• 9 February – Nicolas Coutelot, tennis player
• 15 February – Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin, Alpine skier
• 16 February – Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, software engineer
• 20 February – Nicolas Dessum, ski jumper
• 23 February – Freddy Bourgeois, soccer player
• 27 February – Jean-Pierre Vidal, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist
• 28 February
• Pierre Mignoni, rugby union player
• Jean-François Rivière, soccer player
• 4 March – Grégory Le Corvec, rugby union player
• 7 March – Jérôme Fernandez, handball player
• 8 March – Estelle Desanges, pornographic actress
• 9 March
• Sébastien Chabaud, soccer player
• Vincent Defrasne, biathlete and Olympic gold medallist
• 12 March – David Bouard, soccer player
• 15 March – Frédéric Serrat, boxer
• 18 March – Willy Sagnol, international soccer player

April to June

• 1 April – Vincent Doukantié, soccer player
• 2 April – Marc Raquil, athlete
• 13 April – Bertrand Laquait, soccer player
• 13 April – Olivier Olibeau, rugby union player
• 30 April – Lilian Compan, soccer player
• 1 May – Jean-Michel Lesage, soccer player
• 7 May – Zoé Félix, actress
• 10 May – Gabriel Monnier, figure skater
• 14 May – Claude Crétier, alpine skier
• 20 May – Mathieu Blin, rugby union player
• 10 June – Benjamin Millepied, dancer and choreographer
• 11 June – Vincent Ehouman, soccer player
• 12 June – Anita Tijoux, alternative hip-hop singer
• 16 June – Delphine Pelletier, athlete
• 19 June – Stéphan Perrot, swimmer
• 22 June – Frédéric Weis, basketball player
• 24 June – Jean-Philippe Caillet, soccer player
• 30 June – Christophe Landrin, soccer player

July to September

• 5 July – Jérôme Éyana, athlete
• 6 July – Audrey Fleurot, actress
• 13 July
• Christophe Meslin, soccer player
• Romain Mesnil, pole vaulter
• 20 July – Yves Niaré, shot putter
• 24 July – Cédric Anselin, soccer player
• 26 July – Christophe Laurent, cyclist
• 8 August – Romain Pitau, soccer player
• 9 August – Mikaël Silvestre, international soccer player
• 15 August – Malek Aït-Alia, soccer player
• 17 August – Thierry Henry, international soccer player
• 18 August – Ludovic Roy, soccer player
• 23 August – Yoann Bigné, soccer player
• 24 August – Arnaud Gonzalez, soccer player
• 27 August – Martial Robin, soccer player
• 2 September – Frédéric Kanouté, soccer player
• 3 September – Stéphane Bonsergent, cyclist
• 3 September – Yannick Zambernardi, soccer player
• 9 September – Sébastien Gimbert, motorcycle road racer
• 11 September – Ludovic Hubler, hitchhiker
• 28 September – Julien Pillet, sabre fencer and twice Olympic medallist
• 30 September – Jean-Sébastien Jaurès, soccer player

October to December

• 2 October – Patrick Barul, soccer player
• 5 October – Christian Bassila, soccer player
• 7 October – Sébastien de Chaunac, tennis player
• 8 October – Anne-Caroline Chausson, Mountain bike racer
• 11 October – Jérémie Janot, soccer player
• 15 October – David Trezeguet, international soccer player
• 31 October – Sylviane Félix, athlete and Olympic medallist
• 31 October – Séverine Ferrer, singer
• 6 November – Frédéric Mathieu, politician
• 12 November – Jérémy Henin, soccer player
• 21 November – Kodjo Afanou, soccer player
• 23 November – Jean-Baptiste Élissalde, rugby union player
• 29 November – Cédric Uras, soccer player
• 30 November – Virginie Guilhaume, television host
• 1 December – Joseph-Désiré Job, soccer player
• 2 December – Jérôme Thion, rugby union player
• 8 December – Sébastien Chabal, rugby union player
• 14 December – Romain Dumas, motor racing driver
• 17 December – Arnaud Clément, tennis player
• 27 December – Emmanuel Macron, French president
• 30 December – Alex Jeannin, soccer player

Full date unknown

• Jean-Pascal Chaigne, composer and musicologist
• Éléonore Gosset, actress

Deaths

January to March

• 10 January – Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist (born 1909)
• 12 January – Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1907)
• 13 January – Henri Langlois, pioneer of film preservation and restoration (born 1914)
• 14 January – Anaïs Nin, writer (born 1903)
• 19 January – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (born 1894)
• 24 January – Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (born 1901)
• 10 February – Alain Escoffier, anti-communist activist, self-immolated (born 1949)
• 2 March – Eugénie Brazier, chef, "la mère" of modern French cooking (born 1895)

April to June

• 3 April – Pierre-Marie Théas, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1894)
• 11 April
• Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (born 1904).
• Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (born 1900)
• 2 May – Jean-Claude Lebaube, cyclist (born 1937)
• 17 May – Claude Roger-Marx, writer (born 1888)
• May – Annette Laming-Emperaire, archeologist (born 1917)
• 22 June – Jacqueline Audry, film director (born 1908)

July to September

• 4 July – Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of Singapore (born 1901)
• 7 July – Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (born 1893)
• 29 July – Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (born 1934)
• 13 August – Marie-Hélène Cardot, French resistance leader and politician (born 1899)
• 21 August – Pierre Cot, politician (born 1895)
• 4 September
• Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (born 1898)
• Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (born 1894)
• 10 September – Hamida Djandoubi, last person executed in France (born 1949)
• 14 September – Marcel Carpentier, military officer (born 1895)
• 29 September – Jean Marsan, screenwriter and actor (born 1920)

October to December

• 19 October – René Mourlon, athlete and Olympic medallist (born 1893)
• 20 October – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (born 1909)
• 25 October – Félix Gouin, politician (born 1884)
• 3 November – Armand Lunel, writer, last known speaker of Shuadit (born 1892)
• 5 November – René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist (born 1926)
• 7 December – Georges Grignard, motor racing driver (born 1905)
• 12 December – Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (born 1891)
• 19 December – Jacques Tourneur, film director (born 1904)

Full date unknown

• Léonie Duquet, nun, killed by a death squad in Argentina (born 1916)
• Marcel Fétique, bow maker (born 1899).
• Georges Miquelle, cellist (born 1894)

See also

• 1977 in French television
• List of French films of 1977

References