1949 in France

Events from the year 1949 in France.

Incumbents

Events

19-25 August – 1949 Landes forest fire: a wildfire burns 50.000 ha of forest land and kills 82.
27 October – Air France Flight 009 flying from Paris Orly Airport to New York crashes on São Miguel Island in the Azores and kills all 48 on board, including violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
Simone de Beauvoir publishes her book The Second Sex, an extremely influential work for second-wave feminism, in Paris.

Sports

30 June – Tour de France begins.
21 July – Tour de France ends, won by Fausto Coppi of Italy

Births

11 January – Max Azria, fashion designer
11 January – Jean-Paul Enthoven, philosopher and publisher
18 January – Philippe Starck, designer
6 February – Olivier Chevallier, motor cycle racer
10 February – Maxime Le Forestier, singer
2 March – Isabelle Mir, Alpine skier
5 March – Bernard Arnault, billionaire businessman
22 March – Fanny Ardant, actress
1 April – Gérard Mestrallet, businessman
16 April – Claude Papi, soccer player
24 April – Véronique Sanson, singer-songwriter
27 April – Didier Daeninckx, author and politician
16 May – Gilles Bertould, athlete
13 June – Thierry Sabine, motor cycle racer
17 June – Serge Vinçon, politician
25 June – Patrick Tambay, racing driver
29 June – Henri Proglio, businessman
2 July – Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, actor
13 August – Philippe Petit, highwire artist
22 October – Arsène Wenger, soccer manager
25 October – Alain Escoffier, anti-communist activist, self-immolated
13 November – Gérard Lelièvre, racewalker
19 November – Raymond Blanc, chef
Full date unknown – Jean-Claude Irvoas, murder victim

Deaths

28 January – Jean-Pierre Wimille, motor racing driver and resistance member
16 February – Roger François, weightlifter
4 June – Maurice Blondel, philosopher
24 September – Pierre de Bréville, composer
27 October – Marcel Cerdan, boxer
27 October – Ginette Neveu, violinist