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Events from the year1988 inFrance.

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

• 29 March –African National Congress representativeDulcie September assassinated in Paris.
• 22 April–5 May – TheOuvéa cave hostage taking takes place inOuvéa,Loyalty Islands,New Caledonia.
• 24 April –Presidential Election held.
• 8 May –Presidential Election held, won byFrançois Mitterrand.
• 5 June –Legislative Election held.
• 12 June –Legislative Election held.
• 26 June –Air France Flight 296Airbus 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 theR19 hatchback range, which replaces theRenault 11 hatchback. A saloon model to replace theRenault 9 is expected soon.^[1]
• August – Construction begins on theEuro Disney resort and theme park east of Paris; it is expected to be open within three years.^[2]
• 26 August –Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck inCharles 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 abandoningRU-486,French manufacturerRoussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from theGovernment of France.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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 andphysiologist, sharedNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (born 1895).
• 6 March –Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (born 1906).^[3]
• 19 March –Francis Lefebvre, physician (born 1916).
• 21 March –Germain Jousse, member of theFrench Resistance (born 1895).
• 30 March –Edgar Faure, politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (born 1908).
• 31 March –Georges Lévis, comic artist (born 1924).

• 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).

• 15 July –Armand Mouyal,epeefencer (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 andpsychoanalyst (born 1908).

• 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).

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

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