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Events from the year 1957 in France.

Incumbents[edit]

Events[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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

Births[edit]

  • 4 January - Joël Bats, international soccer player and coach
  • 11 January - Alain Lemercier, racewalker
  • 13 January - Bruno Baronchelli, soccer player
  • 12 March - Patrick Battiston, international soccer player
  • 3 April - Yves Chaland, cartoonist (died 1990)
  • 25 May - Véronique Augereau, actress
  • 18 August - Carole Bouquet, actress
  • 12 October - Rémi Laurent, actor (died 1989)
  • 3 December - Valérie Quennessen, actress (died 1989)

Deaths[edit]

  • 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).

See also[edit]

  • 1957 in French television
  • List of French films of 1957

References[edit]