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Events
- 22 January - Battle of Marseille begins. Nazis, assisted by French police, organized a raid to arrest Jewish people.
- 24 January - Battle of Marseille ends with 30,000 people expelled from their neighbourhood and 2,000 Jews eventually sent to the extermination camps.
- 21 May - Riom Trial ends, attempt by Vichy France regime to prove that the leaders of the French Third Republic had been responsible for France's defeat by Germany in 1940.
- 21 October - Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment.
- 22 November - Lebanon gains independence from France.
Sport
Births
- 20 February - Carlos, singer, entertainer and actor (d.2008).
- 23 April - Hervé Villechaize, actor (d.1993).
- 6 June - Jean-Michel Bertrand, politician (d.2008).
- 15 June - Johnny Hallyday, singer and actor.
- 30 August - Jean-Claude Killy, alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion.
- 5 December - Eva Joly, magistrate.
Full date unknown
- Marie-Françoise Audollent, actress (d.2008).
Deaths
- 18 August - Maurice Couette, physicist (b.1858).
- 24 August - Simone Weil, philosopher and social activist (b.1909).
- 19 October - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (b.1864).
- 10 December - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister (b.1847).
Full date unknown
- André Antoine, actor-manager (b.1858).
- Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (b.1874).
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