1990 in France

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Events from the year 1990 in France.

Incumbents

15 May – Launch of the Renault Clio supermini, which will eventually replace the Renault 5.^[1]
13 July – Loi Gayssot enacted, prohibiting Holocaust denial.
14 July – Jean-Michel Jarre performs Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert before a world record audience of 2.5 million people.^[2]
27 July – Citroën ends production of its 2CV after 42 years.
December – Espace Euro Disney, an information hub on the under construction Euro Disney resort near Paris, is opened to the public.^[3]
1 December – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.

10 January – Juliet Berto, actress (b. 1947).
16 January – Robert Lamartine, soccer player (b. 1935).
17 January – Charles Hernu, politician and Minister (b. 1923).
5 February – Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (b. 1895).
5 February – Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (b. 1906).
15 February – Michel Drach, film director, writer, producer and actor (b. 1930).
7 March – Claude Arrieu, composer (b. 1903).
12 March – Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (b. 1897).
17 March – Capucine, actress (b. 1928).
20 March – Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1907).

20 October – Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (b. 1906).
22 October – Louis Althusser, Marxist philosopher (b. 1918).
27 October – Jacques Demy, film director (b. 1931).
October – Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (b. 1898).
5 November – Raymond Oliver, chef and restaurateur (b. 1909).
17 November – Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor (b. 1905).
1 December – Simone Melchior, wife and business partner of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (b. 1919).
18 December – Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (b. 1914).
19 December – Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (b. 1907).
23 December – Serge Danot, animator (b. 1931).
23 December – Pierre Gripari, writer (b. 1925).