1957 in France explained

Events from the year 1957 in France.

Incumbents

• President

• President of the Council of Ministers

• • until 13 June: Guy Mollet
  • 13 June-6 November: Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
  • starting 6 November: Félix Gaillard

Events

• 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

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

Births

• 4 January – Joël Bats, international soccer player and coach
• 11 January – Alain Lemercier, racewalker
• 13 January – Bruno Baronchelli, soccer player
• 10 March – Mino Cinélu, musician
• 12 March – Patrick Battiston, international soccer player
• 3 April – Yves Chaland, cartoonist (died 1990)
• 25 May – Véronique Augereau, actress
• 12 June – Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, oncologist and politician (died 2023)
• 18 August – Carole Bouquet, actress
• 25 September – Jean-Pierre Demailly, mathematician (died 2022)
• 10 October
  • Didier Roustan, sports journalist (died 2024)
  • Jacques Verdier, sports journalist (died 2018)
• 12 October
  • Clémentine Célarié, actress
  • Rémi Laurent, actor (died 1989)
• 3 December – Valérie Quennessen, actress (died 1989)

Deaths

• 14 May – Marie Vassilieff, Russian-born painter (born 1884)^[1]
• 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

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

Notes and References

1. Book: John E.. Bowlt. Nicoletta. Misler. Sammlung. Thyssen-Bornemisza. Twentieth-Century Russian and East European Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Stuttgart. Klett-Cotta. 1994. 320. 978-3-60876-258-7.