1983 in France

Chronology of France

1982 in France - 1983 - 1984 in France

January 19th: Maurice Papon accused of crimes against humanity.
January 27th: Death of the actor Louis de Funès, with Nantes.
In February, agitation of the medical students and the hospital world.
February 21st: Daniel Mayer is named president of the Constitutional council.
February 22nd: Brought into service at Toulon of the Underwater first of attack at Nuclear propulsion , the Ruby .
February 23rd: Creation of the national Advisory committee of ethics.
March 1st: Marketing of the first compact-disc in France.
6 - March 13rd: Municipal elections: Success of the parties of the opposition. The left loses about thirty city of more than 30 000 inhabitants. With Paris, the lists related to Jacques Chirac carry it in twenty districts.
March 21st: Devaluation of the French franc of 2,5%.
March 23rd: Government Pierre Mauroy (3).
March 25th: After the failure of the economic policy of the government Mauroy, following the second oil crisis, France adopts a plan of rigor, which devotes the conversion of the Socialists to the market economy. In order to cure the imbalances generated by the balance of payments deficit, an austerity policy is essential.
April 5th: Eviction of 47 Soviet “diplomats” of France.
May 24th: Demonstration of students against the reform projects of higher education.
June 2nd: The Poet and statesman Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor becomes the first African with being elected with the French Academy.
June 3rd: Demonstration of police officers in Paris after the death of two of them.
June 5th: Yannick Noah gains the final of the Internationaux of France of Roland-Garros.
June 16th: Launching by the rocket ARIANE of the satellite first European of Communication operational.
June 23rd: launching of the first mobile telephone network in France.
29 - June 30th: Law on the equality of the Sex S in the work.
August: Pilgrimage of Jean-Paul II with Heavy.
September 4th: Electoral opening of the Front National (FN) at the time of the first turn of the municipal election partial of Dreux: 17,6% of the voices for Jean-Pierre Stirbois.
September 25th: TGV puts Lyon with two hour S of Paris.
November 21st: The Prix Goncourt is decreed with Frédérick Tristan for its novel Stray the with the 2° ballot.
December 3rd: Arrival in Paris of a great walk against racism (60 000 people), vulgarizing of the term of “Beur” to describe the second Maghrebian generation.
December 31st: Attack asserted by Carlos in TGV Paris - Marseilles: 5 dead.

the number of unemployed exceeds the 2 million in France.

Internal bonds

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