1988 in France
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See also: 1987 in France, other events of 1988, 1989 in France.

Events from the year 1988 in France.

Events

• 29 March - African National Congress representative Dulcie September assassinated in Paris.
• 24 April - Presidential Election held.
• 8 May - Presidential Election held, won by François Mitterrand.
• 5 June - Legislative Election held.
• 12 June - Legislative Election held.
• 26 June - Air France Flight 296 Airbus 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.
• 26 August - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in Charles de Gaulle International 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 abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the Government of France.

Arts and Literature

Sport

• 4 July - Tour de France begins.
• 24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Pedro Delgado of Spain.

Births

January to March

• 5 January - Pauline, singer and songwriter.
• 16 January - Benoît Richaud, ice dancer.
• 25 January - Tatiana Golovin, tennis player.
• 12 February - Guillaume Borne, soccer 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.

April to June

• 21 April - Ibrahima Traoré, soccer player.
• 4 May - Simon Pontdemé, soccer player.
• 18 May - Paul Baysse, soccer player.
• 12 June - Matthias Lepiller, soccer player.

July to September

• 4 July - Angélique Boyer, actress.
• 11 July - Étienne Capoue, soccer player.
• 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.

October to December

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

Deaths

January to March

• 20 January - Philippe de Rothschild, motor racing driver, scriptwriter, film producer, poet and wine grower (b.1902).
• 2 February - Alain Savary, politician and Minister (b.1918).
• 3 February - René Massigli, diplomat (b.1888).
• 16 February - Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (b.1911).
• 19 February - René Char, poet (b.1907).
• 19 February - André Frédéric Cournand, physician and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (b.1895).
• 6 March - Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (b.1906).
• 19 March - Francis Lefebure, physician (b.1916).
• 21 March - Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (b.1895).
• 30 March - Edgar Faure, politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (b.1908).
• 31 March - Georges Lévis, comic artist (b.1924).

April to June

• 14 April - Daniel Guérin, anarchist and author (b.1904).
• 18 April - Pierre Desproges, humorist (b.1939).

July to September

• 15 July - Armand Mouyal, epee fencer (b.1925).
• 31 July - André Navarra, cellist and cello teacher (b.1911).
• 1 August - Louis-Jean Guyot, Cardinal (b.1907).
• 11 August - Pauline Lafont, actress (b.1963).
• 11 August - Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director (b.1932).
• 20 August - Jean-Paul Aron, writer and journalist (b.1925).

October to December

• 14 October - René Vietto, cyclist (b.1914).
• 11 November - Émile Muller, politician (b.1915).
• 13 December - André Jaunet, flautist (b.1911).

Full date unknown

• Émile Aillaud, architect (b.1902).
• Françoise Dolto, physician and psychoanalyst (b.1908).
• Pierre Jaïs, bridge player (b.1913).
• Ernest Labrousse, historian (b.1895).
• Pierre Langlais, military officer (b.1909).
• Thierry Maulnier, journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (b.1908).
• Serge Mouille, industrial designer and goldsmith (b.1922).
• Fernand Mourlot, printer and publisher (b.1895).
• André Neher, Jewish scholar and philosopher (b.1914).
• Jules Semler-Collery, composer, conductor and teacher (b.1902).

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