Events from the year 1956 in France.
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Incumbents
edit- President: René Coty
- President of the Council of Ministers: Edgar Faure (until 1 February), Guy Mollet (starting 1 February)
Events
edit- 2 January – Legislative Election held.
- 1 February – Socialist leader Guy Mollet becomes prime minister
- 2 March – Morocco declares its independence from France.
- 20 March – Tunisia gains independence from France.
- 23 May – Minister Pierre Mendès-France resigns due to his government's policy on Algeria.
- 23 June – Loi Cadre passed by the French National Assembly, first step in the creation of the French Union.
- 10 September – Guy Mollet visits London and proposes a merger of France and the United Kingdom. However the idea is rejected by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden.[1]
- 28 September – Eden considers allowing France to join the Commonwealth of Nations, but this idea is also rejected.[1]
- 31 October – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
- 6 November – British and French forces seize control of two Egyptian ports before declaring a ceasefire.[2]
- 7 November – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from Arab lands immediately.
- 23 December – British and French troops leave Suez Canal. region.[3]
- The Tefal cookware firm is established.
Arts and literatures
edit- Two attacks are made on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre.[4][5]
- 28 November – Roger Vadim's film And God Created Woman (Et Dieu… créa la femme), starring Brigitte Bardot, is released.
- 3 December – Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice, this time for Les Racines du ciel.
Sport
edit- 5 July – Tour de France begins.
- 28 July – Tour de France ends, won by Roger Walkowiak.
Births
edit- 1 January – Christine Lagarde, politician
- 6 February – Amaury du Closel, conductor and composer (died 2024)
- 11 February – Didier Lockwood, jazz violinist (died 2018)
- 26 February – Michel Houellebecq, novelist
- 28 May – Francis Joyon, yachtsman
- 4 July – Éric Neuhoff, novelist and journalist
- 28 October – Jean-Luc Montama, karateka[6]
- 8 December – Pierre Pincemaille, organist (died 2018)
- 9 December – Jean-Pierre Thiollet journalist
Deaths
edit- 5 January – Mistinguett, singer (born 1875)
- 3 February – Émile Borel, mathematician and politician (born 1871)
- 18 February – Gustave Charpentier, composer (born 1860)
- 17 March – Irène Joliot-Curie, scientist, shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 (born 1897)
- 20 May – Pierre Allemane, international soccer player (born 1882)
- 11 September – Lucien Febvre, social historian (born 1878)
- 26 October – Walter Gieseking, pianist and composer (born 1895)[7]
- 23 November – André Marty, leading figure in the French Communist Party (born 1886)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b France and UK considered 1950s 'merger', The Guardian
- ^ Allied forces take control of Suez
- ^ Jubilation as allied troops leave Suez
- ^ "Faces of the week". BBC. 29 September 2006. Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ "Mona FAQ". Mona Lisa Mania. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- ^ profil Archived 2012-05-23 at the Wayback Machine www.multimania.fr sports reference retrieved 15 December 2011
- ^ "Walter Gieseking | German pianist". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.