1973 in France

January 1st: Pierre Messmer presents to Provins the program of the majority.
January 3rd: Creation in France of the function of mediator (cf ombudsman in Sweden).
February 6th: Set fire to Collège Edouard-Pailleron with Paris: 20 dead.
4 - March 11th: legislative Elections in France: victory of the right-hand side. The PCF arrives at the head of the left parties.
March 28th: Resignation of the Prime Minister Pierre Messmer.
April 2nd:

Edgar Faure president of the National Assembly.
a law which removes the long deferments with the military service proposed by Michel Debré, Minister for the Armies, causes a wave of agitation coed in April.

April 3rd: Pierre Messmer, Prime Minister, follows one another itself.
April 5th: Formation of the Government Pierre Messmer (2).
April 5th: Brigitte Bardot announces her final adoption of the cinema to the newspaper France-Evening.
April 18th: First number of the daily newspaper Release
April 25th: Inauguration of the last section of the Ring road of Paris.
May 5th: Demonstrations for the right to the Abortion. Movement for the freedom of the abortion and contraception (MLAC).
June 3rd: A Tupolev 144 is crushed with Goussainville making 14 died, during a demonstration during the Paris airshow.
June 12th: Beginning of the strike Lip with Besancon (fine the January 29th 1974). The workmen, threatened by the bankruptcy of the company, occupy the factory, sell the stock of watches to ensure their wages and try to restart the factory.
June 21st: Meeting of New Order in Paris. Violent one confrontations between militants of extreme left, CRS and militants of extreme right-hand side.
22 - June 24th: Congress of the PS, François Mitterrand re-elected first secretary.
June 28th: Dissolution of the Communist League and New Order.
June 30th: the longest Eclipse total of the sun of the century (6 min 20 S).
July 11th: A Boeing 707 of the company Varig is crushed in the plain of Saulx-the-Carthusian monk. 124 died, 11 survivors.
August 14th: Evacuation by the police force of the factory Lip of Besancon.

25 - August 26th: Gathering with the Cavalry of 80 000 people by the Peasant-workers against the extension of the military camp of the Larzac.
September 13rd: Inauguration of the Turn Montparnasse.
September 23rd: Cantonal elections, progression of the PS at the expense of the PCF and the majority from the right.
October 19th: Vote law Royer limiting the opening of the large surfaces.
In October, Parliament and Senate decides the reduction at 5 years of the presidential mandate, but Georges Pompidou cancels the convocation of the Congress.
December 2nd: Congress constitutive of the Movement of the Radical lefts (MRG).
December 4th: Beginning of the business of the microphones of the Canard Enchaîné .
December 14th: The Parliament refers to committee the bill on the Avortement.

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