1. Incumbents

2. Events

3. Arts and literature

4. Sport

5. Births
    January to March  April to June  July to September  October to December 

6. Deaths
    January to March  April to June  July to September  October to December  Full date unknown 

7. See also

8. References

Events from the year 1988 in France.

Incumbents

• President: François Mitterrand
• Prime Minister: Jacques Chirac (until 10 May), Michel Rocard (starting 10 May)

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.
• 21 July – Renault launches the R19 hatchback range, which replaces the Renault 11 hatchback. A saloon model to replace the Renault 9 is expected soon.^[1]
• August – Construction begins on the Euro Disney resort and theme park east of Paris; it is expected to be open within three years.^[2]
• 26 August – Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in Charles de Gaulle 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 (born 1902).
• 2 February – Alain Savary, politician and Minister (born 1918).
• 3 February – René Massigli, diplomat (born 1888).
• 16 February – Charles Delaunay, author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot club de France (born 1911).
• 19 February – René Char, poet (born 1907).
• 19 February – André Frédéric Cournand, physician and physiologist, shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (born 1895).
• 6 March – Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (born 1906).
• 19 March – Francis Lefebure, physician (born 1916).
• 21 March – Germain Jousse, member of the French Resistance (born 1895).
• 30 March – Edgar Faure, politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (born 1908).
• 31 March – Georges Lévis, comic artist (born 1924).

April to June

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

July to September

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

October to December

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

Full date unknown

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

See also

• List of French films of 1988

References

• Patricia Birkholz
• Patricia Birnie
• Patricia Bishop
• Patricia Blondal
• Patricia Bovey
• Patricia Bridges
• Patricia Bright
• Patricia Briones
• Patricia Brister
• Patricia Brubaker
• Patricia Brulhart
• Patricia Brülhart
• Patricia Burchat
• Patricia (Burmese actress)
• Patricia Burton
• Patricia Butenis
• Patricia Byrne
• Patricia Califia
• Patricia Califia-Rice
• Patricia Campos
• Patricia Campos (disambiguation)
• Patricia Campos Doménech
• Patricia Cano
• Patricia Carroll Daniels
• Patricia Catherine Smith