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Events from the year1990 inFrance.

• President:François Mitterrand
• Prime Minister:Michel Rocard

• 15 May – Launch of theRenault Clio supermini, which will eventually replace theRenault 5.^[1]
• 13 July –Loi Gayssot enacted, prohibitingHolocaust denial.
• 14 July –Jean-Michel Jarre performsParis La Défense – Une Ville En Concert before a world record audience of 2.5 million people.^[2]
• 27 July –Citroën ends production of its2CV after 42 years.
• December –Espace Euro Disney, an information hub on the under constructionEuro Disney resort near Paris, is opened to the public.^[3]
• 1 December –Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath theEnglish Channel seabed.

• 30 June –Tour de France begins.
• 8 July –French Grand Prix won byAlain Prost.
• 22 July – Tour de France ends, won byGreg LeMond of the United States.

• 6 January –Jonathan Matijas
• 10 January –Richard Philippe, motor racing driver.
• 22 January –Alizé Cornet, tennis player.
• 29 January –Francois Civil, actor
• 13 February –Mamadou Sakho, footballer
• 15 February –Charles Pic, motor racing driver.
• 10 March –César Domboy, actor
• 18 March –Ines Rau, transgender model
• 20 March –Stacy Martin, actress
• 26 March –Romain Saïss, Footballer
• 12 April –Ciryl Gane, mixed martial artist
• 19 April –Damien Le Tallec, footballer
• 20 May –Adeline Canac,pair skater.
• 4 June –Tippi Degré, animal handler.
• 11 June –Christophe Lemaitre, sprinter
• 12 June –Jérôme Jarre, vine star.
• 13 July –Alizé Lim, tennis player
• 16 July –Johann Zarco, motorcycle racer
• 20 July –Wendie Renard, footballer
• 12 August –Wissam Ben Yedder, footballer.
• 13 August –Benjamin Stambouli, footballer
• 19 September –Josuha Guilavogui, footballer
• 21 October –Maxime Vachier-Lagrave,chessgrandmaster.
• 9 November –Romain Bardet, racing cyclist
• 12 November –Florent Manaudou, swimmer
• 25 November –Anouchka Delon, French-Dutch actress
• 22 December –Jean-Baptiste Maunier, actor and singer.

• 10 January –Juliet Berto, actress (b. 1947).
• 16 January –Robert Lamartine, soccer player (b. 1935).
• 17 January –Charles Hernu, politician and Minister (b. 1923).
• 5 February –Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggleJews to safety fromNazi-occupiedSouthern France (b. 1895).
• 5 February –Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (b. 1906).
• 15 February –Michel Drach, film director, writer, producer and actor (b. 1930).
• 7 March –Claude Arrieu, composer (b. 1903).
• 12 March –Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (b. 1897).
• 17 March –Capucine, actress (b. 1928).
• 20 March –Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1907).

• 21 April –Romain de Tirtoff, artist and designer (b. 1892).
• 30 June –Jacques Lob,comic book creator (b. 1932).

• 18 July –Yves Chaland, cartoonist (b. 1957).
• 23 July –Pierre Gandon, illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b. 1899).
• 25 July –Jean Fourastié, economist (b. 1907).
• 1 August –Michel Arnaud, General (b. 1915).
• 6 August –Jacques Soustelle,anthropologist (b. 1912).
• 15 August –Louis Vola, double bass player (b. 1902).
• 20 August –Maurice Gendron, cellist and teacher (b. 1920).
• 30 September –Michel Leiris,surrealist writer andethnographer (b. 1901).

• 20 October –Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (b. 1906).
• 22 October –Louis Althusser,Marxist philosopher (b. 1918).
• 27 October –Jacques Demy, film director (b. 1931).
• October –Alfred Sauvy,demographer,anthropologist and historian (b. 1898).
• 5 November –Raymond Oliver, chef and restaurateur (b. 1909).
• 17 November –Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor (b. 1905).
• 1 December –Simone Melchior, wife and business partner ofJacques-Yves Cousteau (b. 1919).
• 18 December –Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (b. 1914).
• 19 December –Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (b. 1907).
• 23 December –Serge Danot, animator (b. 1931).
• 23 December –Pierre Gripari, writer (b. 1925).

• Jacques-Laurent Bost, journalist (b. 1916).
• Daniel du Janerand, painter (b. 1919).
• Marcel Légaut, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1900).
• Claude Ponsard, economist (b. 1927).

• List of French films of 1990

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