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List of events
Events from the year
1947 in
France.
Incumbents
Events
- 16 January –
Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as
President of France.
[1]
- 10 February – Paris peace treaties are signed between the
World War II Allies and Italy,
Hungary,
Romania,
Bulgaria and
Finland.
- 12 February –
Christian Dior introduces
The "New Look" in women's fashion, in Paris.
- 28 February – United States gives France a military base in
Casablanca.
- 29 March –
Malagasy Uprising: Nationalist "tribesmen" began a revolt in the eastern part of
Madagascar against French rule.
- 6 May – Malagasy Uprising: In
Moramanga, the French military machine-gun
Mouvement démocratique de la rénovation malgache (MDRM) officials detained in wagons, killing 124 to 160 mostly unarmed activists.
- 11 July –
SS Exodus departs France for
Palestine with 4,500 Jewish
Holocaust survivor refugees.
[2]
- 27 July – Ocean Liberty explodes in
Brest harbour causing at least 26 deaths and extensive damage.
- July – Five North-African regiments arrive in Madagascar to assist in quelling the
Malagasy Uprising.
- 27 August – Government lowering of the bread
ration to 200 grammes causes riots in
Verdun and
Le Mans.
- 30 August – Fire at a cinema in
Rueil, a suburb of Paris, kills 87.
- September –
Festival d'Avignon first staged.
- 7 October –
Operation Léa begins in
Vietnam, an attempt by the French to crush the
Viet Minh.
- 10 November – The arrest of four steel workers in
Marseille begins a
communist riot that spreads to Paris.
- 20 November –
Paul Ramadier resigns as
Prime Minister of France – he is succeeded by
Robert Schuman. Schuman calls 80,000 reservists to quell rioting miners.
- 27 November – In Paris, police occupy the editorial offices of communist newspapers.
- 3 December –
French communist
strikers derail the Paris-Tourcoing express train because of false rumours that it is transporting soldiers – 21 dead.
- 4 December –
Interior minister
Jules Moch secures
emergency measures against riots after six days of violent arguments in the
National Assembly of France.
- 9 December – Labour unions call off the general strike and begin negotiations with the French government.
- 22 December – Operation Lea ends with a tactical success for the French forces.
Sport
Births
- 1 January –
F. R. David, musician
- 16 January –
Juliet Berto, actress (died 1990)
- 17 January –
Alain Payet, adult film director (died 2007)
- 31 January –
Bernard Guignedoux, football player and manager (died 2021)
- 25 February –
Marc Sautet, philosopher and writer (died 1998)
- 1 April –
Alain Connes, mathematician
- 4 April –
Jacques Frantz, actor (died 2021)
- 13 April –
Jean-Jacques Laffont, economist (died 2004)
- 15 June –
Alain Aspect, quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
[3]
- 4 July –
Jacques Morali, music producer (died 1991)
- 10 July –
Michel Étiévent, journalist, historian and writer (died 2021)
- 24 July –
Jacques Fouroux, international rugby union player, coach (died 2005)
- 30 July –
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*2 *2 August –
Marie-Laure de Decker, photographer (died 2023)
- 3 September –
Gérard Houllier, football manager (died 2020)
- 20 September –
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, television news presenter
- 28 September –
Bernard Charvin, alpine skier
- 9 October –
France Gall, singer (died 2018)
- 28 November –
Michel Berger, singer and songwriter (died 1992)
- 2 December –
Isaac Bitton, drummer
Deaths
- 23 January –
Pierre Bonnard, painter and printmaker (born 1867)
- 19 February –
Pierre Besnard, revolutionary syndicalist (born 1886)
- 15 March –
Jean-Richard Bloch, critic, novelist and playwright (born 1884)
- 13 April –
Jean Chassagne, racing driver (born 1881)
- 14 June –
Albert Marquet, painter (born 1875)
- 21 September –
Marcel Astier, politician (born 1885)
- 24 November –
Léon-Paul Fargue, poet and essayist (born 1876)
- 7 December –
Tristan Bernard, playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer (born 1866)
Full date unknown
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