1979 in France

January 10th: The Minister for the economy Rene Monory announces the “total release of the prices” for the year 1979.
January 13rd: In Paris, the autonomous ransack the district of the Gare Saint-Lazare.
January 23rd: Recovery package of the Iron and steel industry. Agitation in Lorraine: beginnings of the open crisis of the iron and steel industry in Lorraine.
February 21st: Mobilization of the historians against Robert Faurisson and the negationnists: “There is not, it cannot be of debate on the existence of the gas chambers” (Le Monde). Among them Philippe Ariès, Pierre Chaunu, Fernand Braudel, Michelle Perrot, Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Ernest Labrousse.
February 23rd: Rene Giraud, Minister of Industry, presents a recovery package of iron and steel industry.
February 24th: Demonstrations with Longwy against the restructuring plan of the iron and steel industry.
March 23rd: To Paris, the walk of the steelmakers turns to the riot.
March 29th: Louis Pauwels popularizes the term of “Nouvelle right-hand side”.
April 1st: First number of the magazine Merry Foot .
6 - April 8th: Congress of the PS in Metz: Michel Rocard defends a revision of the common Programme. François Mitterrand gains the majority over fidelity with this program.
: corrosion of the seat of French employers by Direct action.
June 26th:

Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Andre Glucksmann and Michel Foucault go to the Elysium for the operation “a boat for Vietnam”. They ask 3000 visas to the president Valery Giscard d'Estaing for the refugees embarked on the boat the Island of Light. This one condescends to concede 1000 of them to them. After which Sartre and Aron from go away side by side, as they had come. “Aron was moved a little more than Sartre, remembers André Gluscksmann. It was collected more. Sartre, already blind, attached less importance to the meeting. ”
the steamer France is sold to a Norwegian ship-owner.

: Release of the price of the book.
July 14th: 1.000.000 spectators assist Place of the Harmony with the first méga-concert of Jean Michel Jarre. This figure constitutes at the time the world records which will be pulverized on several occasions by Jean Michel Jarre itself.
September 4th: Inauguration of the Forum of the Markets by the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac.
September 17th: The first restaurant McDonald's of France opens its doors with Strasbourg, Place of the Markets.
September 20th: Assassination of Pierre Goldman by two men asserting mysterious group “Honor of the police force”.
October 3rd: Commit suicide of Nikos Poulantzas which throws twenty-second stages of a tower of the thirteenth district.
October 10th: Revelation of the Duck connected on the business of diamonds of Bokassa blaming the president Giscard d'Estaing.
October 30th: The Minister for Labor Robert Boulin, is found died in the forest of Rambouillet after his calling into question in a real business. The circumstances of the death remain obscure (see Affaire Robert Boulin).
October 31st: Agreements of Lome II between the EEC and the countries ACP.
November:

the ministers RPR refuse to vote the budget (end in December).
Current , magazine news formulates, n°1 (Jean-François Bizot): “The Eighties will be active, technological and merry. ”

November 2nd: The “public enemy number one”, Jacques Mesrine is killed by police officers.
December 24th: The Constitutional council cancels the finance law for 1980.
December: The dollar falls to 4 francs.

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