1962 in France

January [ edit the code ]

 * January 18 : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing succeeded Wilfrid Baumgartner as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs.
 * 19 - January 27 : maiden voyage of the liner France .
 * January 24 : the anniversary of the "week of the Barricades", the OAS committed 22 attacks, including one at the home of Hubert Beuve-Mery, editor of the World .

February [ edit the code ]
Main article: Affair of the subway station Charonne .
 * February 3 : first transatlantic voyage from France .
 * 8 February : demonstration against the OAS to the Bastille to the call of the unions, the PSU and PCF, despite a government ban. Is violent police repression, including the Metro Charonne where eight people were killed in a crowded subway station after being repressed by the police.
 * February 13 : huge demonstration for burial in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise of victims of Charonne, which includes 500,000 Parisians.

March [ edit the code ]

 * Jacques Mesrine, for the first time, has been held eighteen months in Evreux, for turning .
 * March 7 : Opening of the Evian Conference (see Evian Accords )
 * March 18 : Signing of the Evian Accords .
 * March 19 : implementation of the Evian agreements and cease-fire in Algeria.
 * March 26 : French army opened fire on demonstrators in Blackfoot Alger Street Isly (80 deaths). Beginning of the exodus of Blackfoot.

April [ edit the code ]

 * April 8 : referendum on the Evian agreements in France: 90% yes.
 * April 13 : General Edmond Jouhaud is sentenced to death.
 * April 14 : disagree with de Gaulle on whether early elections, Prime Minister Michel Debré resigned. Pompidou form the new government.
 * 20 April : arrest of General Raoul Salan, who was sentenced in May to life in prison.
 * April 21 : Start of the repatriation of Europeans in Algeria. Over 900,000 French of Algeria and 91,000 Algerian soldiers took refuge in France .

Mai [ edit the code ]

 * May  : Beryl accident, a radioactive cloud escapes after an underground nuclear test at Reggane .
 * May 15 : In a press conference, Charles de Gaulle rejects the integrated Europe defends the principle of a "Europe of States" resignation of ministers MRP .
 * May 23 : General Salan was sentenced to life imprisonment, having obtained extenuating circumstances.
 * May 27 : a credit of 200 million francs is open for the reception of French Algeria.

June [ edit the code ]

 * June 6 : For the first time, two terrorists of the OAS, sentenced to death, were shot.
 * June 17 : The Mostefai-Susini agreement between the FLN and the OAS mark the effective end of the war in Algeria.
 * June 24 : the organization of the Tour de France decided to replace the national or regional teams by private teams.

July [ edit the code ]

 * July  : publication of the first issue of the magazine Hi folks !.
 * July 5 : massacres of black feet and Muslims in Oran and Oran. (2000 deaths). The troops of General Kartz are involved.
 * July 6 : Roger Degueldre was shot at Fort d'Ivry.
 * July 11 : first television transmission between France and the United States in Mondovision from Pleumeur-Bodou via satellite Telstar 1 .
 * July 20 : The House adopted by 376 votes against 11 the supplementary law to the Agriculture Act 1960 proposed by Edgard Pisani : Life severance, reorganization of credit to farmers, social measures.
 * July 27 : at night, the sculptor Christo rises 240 barrels a wall in the street Visconti in Paris in response to the Berlin Wall was built a year earlier.

August [ edit the code ]

 * August 22 : attack lacked the OAS at roundabout Petit Clamart against General de Gaulle.

September [ edit the code ]

 * 4 - 9 September : Official Travel De Gaulle in Germany, marking the Franco-German reconciliation.
 * September 20 : In a speech on the news, De Gaulle announced a referendum on the election of the President of the Republic to universal suffrage, to be held on October 28 .
 * September 22 : Opening of information against Jacques Soustelle conspiracy against state authority.

October [ edit the code ]

 * October  : The Council of State considers unconstitutional use of Article 11 (referendum) to revise the Constitution.
 * October 5 : censure motion passed by the National Assembly against the Pompidou government through Article 49-2 of the Constitution (to express the rejection of the proposed reform of the mode of election of the President of the Republic). This is the only motion of censure adopted to date under the Fifth Republic, which had fifty.
 * October 6 : resignation of the Pompidou government.
 * October 9 : de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly.
 * October 18th : de Gaulle announces he will retire if his proposal of 4 September is rejected or accepted shyly.
 * October 19 : The State Council rescind the order of General de Gaulle, who had established the Military Court five months earlier.
 * October 28 : referendum on elections to the President of the Republic : 62% yes. In his speech devoted to elections, de Gaulle asks voters to confirm their vote in the referendum and condemns "disastrous party system."

November [ edit the code ]

 * 18 November : legislative elections in France, off Gaullist victory (18-25 November).
 * 22 November : death of the statesman René Coty, the last President of the Fourth Republic .
 * November 25 : the second round of the laws, the Union for the New Republic (UNR) allied with the Democratic Labour Union (UDT) won 233 seats out of 482. The extra 35 Independent Republicans give an absolute majority.
 * November 29 : A Franco-British agreement was signed for the creation of supersonic aircraft project Concorde . Its cost was $ 5 to 6 billion francs.

December [ edit the code ]

 * December 7 : Pompidou government reshuffle.
 * December 14 : The liner France takes the Mona Lisa in New York .
 * December 28 : corporate agreement with Renault . Fourth week of paid leave.
 * December 31 : last show in France circus Medrano .

Economy and Society [ edit the code ]

 * Winter 1962- 1 963 particularly cold.
 * 47 million people in France. The population of the Paris region stabilizes.
 * 0.2% surplus.
 * The War of Algeria ends after 8 years of conflict.
 * 2 million French were mobilized
 * 27,000 were killed
 * 200,000 were injured

Literature [ edit the code ]
Related article: 1962 in literature .

Cinema [ edit the code ]
Main article: 1962 in film .

French films released in 1962 [ edit the code ]

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Other films released in France in 1962 [ edit the code ]

 * May 25 : Madame , Film French - Spanish - Italian of Christian-Jaque
 * August 29 , Boccaccio 70 (Boccaccio '70) movie Franco - Italian by Mario Monicelli , Federico Fellini , Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica

Births in 1962 [ edit the code ]

 * See detailed article Births in 1962
 * August 6 : Marc Lavoine , singer and actor .

Deaths in 1962 [ edit the code ]

 * See detailed article Deaths in 1962