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Incumbents
- President: Rene Coty
 - President of the Council of Ministers: 
- until 14 May: Félix Gaillard
 - 14 May-1 June: Pierre Pflimlin
 - starting 1 June: Charles de Gaulle
 
 
Events
- 1 January
- The European Economic Community comes into being.
 - Carrefour group set up.
 
 - 13 May – Crisis caused by putsch attempt in Algiers involving French officers.
 - 1 June – Charles de Gaulle is brought out of retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to lead France by decree for six months.
 - 4 June – Charles de Gaulle visits Algeria.
 - 28 September – A majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the French Fifth Republic.
 - 2 October – Guinea declares itself independent from France, rejecting the new French constitution.
 - 4 October – The new Constitution of France is signed into law, establishing the French Fifth Republic.
 - 3 November – New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris.
 - 23 November – Legislative Election held.
 - 25 November – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
 - 28 November – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
 - 30 November – Legislative Election held, to elect the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
 - 1 December – Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
 - 21 December – Presidential Election won by Charles de Gaulle with 78.5% of the votes.
 
Arts and literature
- Yves Klein releases his work IKB74 (one of his monochrome blue panels in his signature blue).
 
Sport
- 26 June – Tour de France begins.
 - 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Charly Gaul of Luxembourg.
 
Births
- 19 January – Thierry Tusseau, international soccer player
 - 26 July – Thierry Gilardi, football and rugby commentator (died 2008)
 - 16 August – Anne L'Huillier, atomic physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
 - 31 August – Éric Zemmour, political journalist and author
 - 2 September – Olivier Grouillard, racing driver
 - 21 September – Bruno Fitoussi, poker player
 - 2 October – Didier Sénac, footballer
 - 26 October – Pascale Ogier, actress (died 1984)
 - 24 November – Alain Chabat, actor and director
 
Deaths
- 13 February – Georges Rouault, painter and printmaker (born 1871)
 - 14 August – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1900)[1]
 - 22 August – Roger Martin du Gard, author, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature (born 1881)
 - 11 October – Maurice de Vlaminck, painter, printmaker and author (born 1876)
 
See also
References
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
 
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