1974 in France

January: France gives up the defense of the parities fixed, but adjustable, with the profit of the autonomous undulation of the franc. Its exit of the European Currency snake reduces this last to a mechanism tail.
January 26th: Failure of the Motion of censure deposited by the Left.
February 22nd: Roger Frey is named President of the Constitutional council.
February 27th: Pierre Mesmer is confirmed in its functions of Prime Minister.
March 1st: Government Pierre Messmer (3).
March 8th:

April 2nd: Died of Georges Pompidou, French President. The secrecy on its disease at summer kept until the last moment. The president of the Senate Alain Poher is president of France by interim.
May 19th: election of Valery Giscard d'Estaing to the presidency of the French Republic with 50,8% of the votes cast against François Mitterrand.
May 27th: Jacques Chirac Prime Minister.
May 28th: Government Jacques Chirac (1).
June: “Plane of economic cooling”.
July 5th:

the civic majority passes from 21 to 18 years.
Francoise Giroud, political woman, enters to the government to the head of lately created Secrétariat of State in the condition of the woman.
the first decision of the very new secretariat of state to the workers immigrant S is to suspend the immigration of the non-European workers.

July 16th: Creation of a secretariat of State to the female condition. Francoise Giroud, Secretary of State to the female condition.
July 23rd: Bursting of ORTF.
August 17th: Second gathering the 17 and August 18th with the Larzac against the extension of the military camp: more 100 000 people go on the Causse
September 15th: Realization of the last of the French Nuclear tests atmospheric.
October 21st: Reform sasine of the Constitutional council (60 senators, or 60 deputies).
October: Sat socialism. The militants of PSU (Michel Rocard), of the CFDT and the Christians of left join the socialist party of François Mitterrand.
October - December: burden with postal and telecommunications authorities.
December 4th: Jean-Paul Sartre returns visit to Andreas Baader, chief of the Red Army Fraction, in its prison of Stuttgart.
December 15th: Jacques Chirac takes the control of the UDR.
December 20th: Vote law Veil on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (Avortement or IVG).
December:

Second Law Neuwirth. The contraceptive Pilule is accessible to minor without authorization parental and refunded by the social security. Many centers of Family planning are open.
63% of the households has a car (72% of the working households). 88,5% have a refrigerator, 48,7% a washing machine, 82,4% television.

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