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1957 in France

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Events from the year 1957 in France.

Incumbents

  • President: Rene Coty
  • President of the Council of Ministers:
    • until 13 June: Guy Mollet
    • 13 June-6 November: Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
    • starting 6 November: Félix Gaillard

Events

  • 4 February – France prohibits United Nation involvement in Algeria.
  • 1 March – Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).
  • 20 March – Newspaper L'Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners.
  • 25 March – Treaty of Rome, signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), establishes the European Economic Community (EEC).
  • 26 May – Algerian politician killed by Algerian nationalists during soccer game
  • First American writers of the Beat Generation (poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky) stay at the "Beat Hotel" (Hotel Rachou) in Paris.

Sport

  • 27 June – Tour de France begins.
  • 20 July – Tour de France ends, won by Jacques Anquetil.

Births

  • 4 January – Joël Bats, international soccer player and coach
  • 11 January – Alain Lemercier, racewalker
  • 13 January – Bruno Baronchelli, soccer player
  • 10 March – Mino Cinélu, musician
  • 12 March – Patrick Battiston, international soccer player
  • 3 April – Yves Chaland, cartoonist (died 1990)
  • 25 May – Véronique Augereau, actress
  • 12 June – Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, oncologist and politician (died 2023)
  • 18 August – Carole Bouquet, actress
  • 25 September – Jean-Pierre Demailly, mathematician (died 2022)
  • 10 October
    • Didier Roustan, sports journalist (died 2024)
    • Jacques Verdier, sports journalist (died 2018)
  • 12 October
    • Clémentine Célarié, actress
    • Rémi Laurent, actor (died 1989)
  • 3 December – Valérie Quennessen, actress (died 1989)

Deaths

  • 14 May – Marie Vassilieff, Russian-born painter (born 1884)
  • 23 October – Christian Dior, fashion designer (born 1905)
  • 4 November – Joseph Canteloube, composer (born 1879)
  • 6 December – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, pioneering aircraft designer (born 1881)

References

References

  1. (1994). "Twentieth-Century Russian and East European Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection". Klett-Cotta.
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