1957 in France

Events from the year 1957 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Rene Coty
 * President of the Council of Ministers:
 * until 13 June: Guy Mollet
 * 13 June-6 November: Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
 * starting 6 November: Félix Gaillard

Events

 * 4 February – France prohibits United Nation involvement in Algeria.
 * 1 March – Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).
 * 20 March – Newspaper L'Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners.
 * 25 March – Treaty of Rome, signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), establishes the European Economic Community (EEC).
 * 26 May – Algerian politician killed by Algerian nationalists during soccer game
 * First American writers of the Beat Generation (poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky) stay at the "Beat Hotel" (Hotel Rachou) in Paris.

Sport

 * 27 June – Tour de France begins.
 * 20 July – Tour de France ends, won by Jacques Anquetil.

Births

 * 4 January – Joël Bats, international soccer player and coach
 * 11 January – Alain Lemercier, racewalker
 * 13 January – Bruno Baronchelli, soccer player
 * 10 March – Mino Cinélu, musician
 * 12 March – Patrick Battiston, international soccer player
 * 3 April – Yves Chaland, cartoonist (died 1990)
 * 25 May – Véronique Augereau, actress
 * 12 June – Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, oncologist and politician (died 2023)
 * 18 August – Carole Bouquet, actress
 * 25 September – Jean-Pierre Demailly, mathematician (died 2022)
 * 12 October
 * Clémentine Célarié, actress
 * Rémi Laurent, actor (died 1989)
 * 3 December – Valérie Quennessen, actress (died 1989)

Deaths

 * 14 May – Marie Vassilieff, Russian-born painter (born 1884)
 * 23 October – Christian Dior, fashion designer (born 1905)
 * 4 November – Joseph Canteloube, composer (born 1879)
 * 6 December – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, pioneering aircraft designer (born 1881)