This article is part ofa series on
Politics of France
Constitutions Fifth Republic Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Executive President (list) Emmanuel Macron (RE) Prime Minister (list) Sébastien Lecornu (RE) Government Bayrou
Legislature National Assembly:Membership President:Yaël Braun-Pivet Senate President:Gérard Larcher Congress of the French Parliament
Judiciary Constitutional Council Council of State Court of Cassation Court of Audit Cour de Justice de la République
Administrative divisions Regions Metropolitan regions Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Brittany Centre-Val de Loire Corsica Grand Est Hauts-de-France Île-de-France Normandy Nouvelle-Aquitaine Occitania Pays de la Loire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Overseas regions French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte Réunion Overseas country French Polynesia Departments
Elections Referendums Presidential Legislative Senate Municipal Political parties
Foreign relations Africa Americas Asia France and the United Nations Foreign alliances Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs Politics of the European Union
Related topics Centrism Human rights Political scandals
France portal Other countries
v t e

This is a list of majorpolitical scandals inFrance.

• 1789:Réveillon riots - popular revolt from April 26- 28, in theFaubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris. Considered a precursor to theStorming of the Bastille and theFrench Revolution.
• 1797:XYZ Affair - a political and diplomatic episode involving confrontation with the United States that led to theQuasi-War.
• 1816:shipwreck of and search for theFrench frigate Méduse off the west coast ofAfrica
• 1847:Teste-Cubières corruption scandal, revealed in May 1847
• 1847:Charles de Choiseul-Praslin's suicide after having murdered his wife, daughter ofHorace Sébastiani, minister of theJuly Monarchy
• 1880s:Georges Ernest Boulanger affair
• 1887:Schnaebele incident
• 1887: Wilson scandal, which led to the resignation ofPresidentJules Grévy^[1]
• 1890s:Panama scandals
• 1894:Dreyfus affair,treason conviction ofAlfred Dreyfus, exposed by writerÉmile Zola on 13 January 1898
• 1904: theAffair of the Cards, sometimes called the Affair of the Casseroles.
• 1928:Marthe Hanau affair
• 1930:Albert Oustric affair
• 1934:Stavisky Affair,embezzlement andpolitical corruption
• 1949: theGenerals Affair, a political-military scandal during theFirst Indochina War
• 1950: theHenri Martin Affair, a political-military scandal during theFirst Indochina War
• 1958: theballets roses, a scandal most notably involving then President of the Senate,André Le Troquer, in which a group of girls aged 15 to 17 performed "ballets" that ended in orgies

• 1965: theBen Barka affair, disappearance of the Moroccan opposition leaderMehdi Ben Barka.
• 1968:The Markovic affair
• 1974:
  • Eurodif affair
  • CardinalJean Daniélou's death in the house of a prostitute
  • Le Monde reveals the existence of theSAFARIgovernment database, prompting the creation of theCNIL agency in charge of respect of civil rights anddata privacy.
• 1979:
  • Robert Boulin affair; a minister of the thirdRaymond Barre government, Boulin was found dead in mysterious circumstances on 30 October 1979
  • Diamonds Affair involvingBokassa
• 1981: theCanard enchaîné uncovered the collaborationist role of former officialMaurice Papon underVichy France; the latter would eventually be convicted of crimes against humanity
• 1985:sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by the FrenchDGSE intelligence agency
• 1986:Chernobyl disaster,Jacques Chirac's government wrongly alleged that the "radioactive cloud" had stopped at the French borders
• 1987–1988:Iskandar Safa and the Hostage Scandal involving Prime MinisterJacques Chirac and Interior MinisterCharles Pasqua
• 1980s:contaminated blood scandal^[2]
• TheCanard enchaîné satirical newspaper fought to bring to light evidence of alleged corruption during PresidentJacques Chirac's tenure as Mayor of Paris.^[3]
• 1990s:Angolagate (arms-for-oil scandal)
  • La Fayette scandal
• 1994:Yann Piat affair; a formerNational Front MP, assassinated on 25 February 1994)
• 1994: Dauphiné News affair; MinisterAlain Carignon indicted, later sentenced to 29 months in prison
• 1998: affairElf-Dumas
• 1999: "Affair of the beach huts", leading to the arrest of prefectBernard Bonnet
• 2005: the revelations of theCanard enchaîné on Finance MinisterHervé Gaymard's (UMP) lavish state-funded apartment led to his resignation in 2005
• 2006:Clearstream affair allegedly involving Prime MinisterDominique de Villepin (UMP) accused of attempting to discredit his political rivals, including UMP LeaderNicolas Sarkozy, by spreading false allegations concerning theTaiwan frigates scandal.^[4]
• Since 2010
  • Bettencourt affair
  • Karachi affair
  • Sylvie Andrieux affair
  • Alleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential election
  • Cahuzac affair
  • 2012 UMP leadership election fraud accusations
  • Thomas Thevenoud affair
  • Kader Arif affair
  • Bruno Le Roux affair
  • Fillon affair
  • Benalla affair
  • Richard Ferrand affair

• Balladur jurisprudence, concerning ministers indicted by the justice
• Le Canard Enchaîné, an investigative satirical newspaper which uncovered many scandals
• Outreau affair, a judicial scandal
• Corruption in France

• The Bettencourt/L'Oréal scandal Radio France Internationale in English
• French politics no stranger to scandals Radio France Internationale in English
• L'Oréal, scandals and the far right Radio France Internationale in English
• Liste d'affaires politico-financières françaises List Of French Financial Political Scandals in French

• Political scandals in France
• Politics of France
• Corruption in France
• Lists of political scandals by country
• France politics-related lists

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Pages using sidebar with the child parameter