Events from the year 1977 in France.

Incumbents President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Prime Minister: Raymond Barre

Events 13 March – Municipal Elections held. 20 March – Municipal Elections held. 27 June – Djibouti receives its independence from France. 10 September – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world. 7 December – Launch of the Simca Horizon, a five-door medium-sized hatchback which will also be built in Britain as a Chrysler and the US as a Plymouth and Dodge. It replaces the Simca 1100 in France, and runs alongside the Chrysler Avenger saloon and estate in Britain.

Arts and literature 31 January – Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris officially opened. 7 May – Marie Myriam wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 for France with her song "L'oiseau et l'enfant" ("The Bird and the Child").

Sport 30 June – Tour de France begins. 24 July – Tour de France ends, won by Bernard Thévenet.

Births January to March 3 January – Stéphane Pignol, soccer player 4 January Louisa Baïleche, singer, dancer and performer Jonathan Cochet, motor racing driver 11 January – Jérôme Kerviel, trader convicted of fraud for the 2008 Société Générale trading loss 26 January – Jean-Michel Sigere, soccer player 27 January – Siramana Dembélé, soccer player 29 January – Alexandre Rousselet, cross-country skier 9 February – Nicolas Coutelot, tennis player 15 February – Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin, Alpine skier 16 February – Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, software engineer 20 February – Nicolas Dessum, ski jumper 23 February – Freddy Bourgeois, soccer player 27 February – Jean-Pierre Vidal, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist 28 February Pierre Mignoni, rugby union player Jean-François Rivière, soccer player 4 March – Grégory Le Corvec, rugby union player 7 March – Jérôme Fernandez, handball player 8 March – Estelle Desanges, pornographic actress 9 March Sébastien Chabaud, soccer player Vincent Defrasne, biathlete and Olympic gold medallist 12 March – David Bouard, soccer player 15 March – Frédéric Serrat, boxer 18 March – Willy Sagnol, international soccer player

April to June 1 April – Vincent Doukantié, soccer player 2 April – Marc Raquil, athlete 13 April – Bertrand Laquait, soccer player 13 April – Olivier Olibeau, rugby union player 30 April – Lilian Compan, soccer player 1 May – Jean-Michel Lesage, soccer player 7 May – Zoé Félix, actress 10 May – Gabriel Monnier, figure skater 14 May – Claude Crétier, alpine skier 20 May – Mathieu Blin, rugby union player 10 June – Benjamin Millepied, dancer and choreographer 11 June – Vincent Ehouman, soccer player 12 June – Anita Tijoux, alternative hip-hop singer 16 June – Delphine Pelletier, athlete 19 June – Stéphan Perrot, swimmer 22 June – Frédéric Weis, basketball player 24 June – Jean-Philippe Caillet, soccer player 30 June – Christophe Landrin, soccer player

July to September 5 July – Jérôme Éyana, athlete 6 July – Audrey Fleurot, actress 13 July Christophe Meslin, soccer player Romain Mesnil, pole vaulter 20 July – Yves Niaré, shot putter 24 July – Cédric Anselin, soccer player 26 July – Christophe Laurent, cyclist 8 August – Romain Pitau, soccer player 9 August – Mikaël Silvestre, international soccer player 15 August – Malek Aït-Alia, soccer player 17 August – Thierry Henry, international soccer player 18 August – Ludovic Roy, soccer player 23 August – Yoann Bigné, soccer player 24 August – Arnaud Gonzalez, soccer player 27 August – Martial Robin, soccer player 2 September – Frédéric Kanouté, soccer player 3 September – Stéphane Bonsergent, cyclist 3 September – Yannick Zambernardi, soccer player 9 September – Sébastien Gimbert, motorcycle road racer 11 September – Ludovic Hubler, hitchhiker 28 September – Julien Pillet, sabre fencer and twice Olympic medallist 30 September – Jean-Sébastien Jaurès, soccer player

October to December 2 October – Patrick Barul, soccer player 5 October – Christian Bassila, soccer player 7 October – Sébastien de Chaunac, tennis player 8 October – Anne-Caroline Chausson, Mountain bike racer 11 October – Jérémie Janot, soccer player 15 October – David Trezeguet, international soccer player 31 October – Sylviane Félix, athlete and Olympic medallist 31 October – Séverine Ferrer, singer 6 November – Frédéric Mathieu, politician 12 November – Jérémy Henin, soccer player 21 November – Kodjo Afanou, soccer player 23 November – Jean-Baptiste Élissalde, rugby union player 29 November – Cédric Uras, soccer player 30 November – Virginie Guilhaume, television host 1 December – Joseph-Désiré Job, soccer player 2 December – Jérôme Thion, rugby union player 8 December – Sébastien Chabal, rugby union player 14 December – Romain Dumas, motor racing driver 17 December – Arnaud Clément, tennis player 27 December – Emmanuel Macron, French president 30 December – Alex Jeannin, soccer player

Full date unknown Jean-Pascal Chaigne, composer and musicologist Éléonore Gosset, actress

Deaths January to March 10 January – Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist (born 1909) 12 January – Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1907) 13 January – Henri Langlois, pioneer of film preservation and restoration (born 1914) 14 January – Anaïs Nin, writer (born 1903) 19 January – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (born 1894) 24 January – Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (born 1901) 10 February – Alain Escoffier, anti-communist activist, self-immolated (born 1949) 2 March – Eugénie Brazier, chef, "la mère" of modern French cooking (born 1895)

April to June 3 April – Pierre-Marie Théas, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1894) 11 April Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (born 1904). Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (born 1900) 2 May – Jean-Claude Lebaube, cyclist (born 1937) 17 May – Claude Roger-Marx, writer (born 1888) May – Annette Laming-Emperaire, archeologist (born 1917) 22 June – Jacqueline Audry, film director (born 1908)

July to September 4 July – Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of Singapore (born 1901) 7 July – Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (born 1893) 29 July – Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (born 1934) 13 August – Marie-Hélène Cardot, French resistance leader and politician (born 1899) 21 August – Pierre Cot, politician (born 1895) 4 September Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (born 1898) Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (born 1894) 10 September – Hamida Djandoubi, last person executed in France (born 1949) 14 September – Marcel Carpentier, military officer (born 1895) 29 September – Jean Marsan, screenwriter and actor (born 1920)

October to December 19 October – René Mourlon, athlete and Olympic medallist (born 1893) 20 October – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (born 1909) 25 October – Félix Gouin, politician (born 1884) 3 November – Armand Lunel, writer, last known speaker of Shuadit (born 1892) 5 November – René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist (born 1926) 7 December – Georges Grignard, motor racing driver (born 1905) 12 December – Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (born 1891) 19 December – Jacques Tourneur, film director (born 1904)

Full date unknown Léonie Duquet, nun, killed by a death squad in Argentina (born 1916) Marcel Fétique, bow maker (born 1899). Georges Miquelle, cellist (born 1894)

See also 1977 in French television List of French films of 1977

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