1958 in France

Events from the year 1958 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: Rene Coty
 * President of the Council of Ministers:
 * until 14 May: Félix Gaillard
 * 14 May-1 June: Pierre Pflimlin
 * starting 1 June: Charles de Gaulle

Events

 * 1 January
 * The European Economic Community comes into being.
 * Carrefour group set up.
 * 13 May – Crisis caused by putsch attempt in Algiers involving French officers.
 * 1 June – Charles de Gaulle is brought out of retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to lead France by decree for six months.
 * 4 June – Charles de Gaulle visits Algeria.
 * 28 September – A majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the French Fifth Republic.
 * 2 October – Guinea declares itself independent from France, rejecting the new French constitution.
 * 4 October – The new Constitution of France is signed into law, establishing the French Fifth Republic.
 * 3 November – New UNESCO building inaugurated in Paris.
 * 23 November – Legislative Election held.
 * 25 November – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
 * 28 November – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
 * 30 November – Legislative Election held, to elect the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.
 * 1 December – Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
 * 21 December – Presidential Election won by Charles de Gaulle with 78.5% of the votes.

Arts and literature

 * Yves Klein releases his work IKB74 (one of his monochrome blue panels in his signature blue).

Sport

 * 26 June – Tour de France begins.
 * 19 July – Tour de France ends, won by Charly Gaul of Luxembourg.

Births

 * 19 January – Thierry Tusseau, international soccer player
 * 6 April – Pascal Lecamp, politician
 * 26 July – Thierry Gilardi, football and rugby commentator (died 2008)
 * 16 August – Anne L'Huillier, atomic physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * 31 August – Éric Zemmour, political journalist and author
 * 2 September – Olivier Grouillard, racing driver
 * 21 September – Bruno Fitoussi, poker player
 * 2 October – Didier Sénac, footballer
 * 26 October – Pascale Ogier, actress (died 1984)
 * 24 November – Alain Chabat, actor and director

Deaths

 * 13 February – Georges Rouault, painter and printmaker (born 1871)
 * 14 August – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1900)
 * 22 August – Roger Martin du Gard, author, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature (born 1881)
 * 11 October – Maurice de Vlaminck, painter, printmaker and author (born 1876)