1992 in France

Events from the year 1992 in France.

Incumbents

 * President: François Mitterrand
 * Prime Minister: Édith Cresson (until 2 April) Pierre Bérégovoy (starting 2 April)

Events

 * 20 January – Air Inter Flight 148 crashes into the Vosges Mountains while on approach to Strasbourg, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
 * 22 March – Regional Elections held.
 * 22 March – Cantonales Elections held.
 * 29 March – Cantonales Elections held.
 * 12 April – Euro Disney resort and theme park opens to the east of Paris.
 * 17 June – The France's pursuit of the Euro 92 are ended by a 2–1 defeat to Denmark in the final group game in Sweden.
 * 20 September – Maastricht Treaty referendum held, with a small majority in favour of ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
 * 8 October – Launch of the Renault Twingo, an entry-level car which takes on a ground-breaking one-box design and will compete with the likes of the new Fiat Cinquecento.
 * 17 November – Start of the "couscous connection" trial in which Habib Ben Ali, the younger brother of the President of Tunisia is accused of laundering drug money.

Arts and literature

 * 9 April – Jean-François Deniau, essayist and novelist, elected to the Académie française.
 * 12 April – Disneyland Paris officially opens under the name "EuroDisney".
 * 20 December – The Folies Bergère music hall in Paris closes.

Sport

 * 8 February – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville.
 * 23 February – The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics is held.
 * 5 May – Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia, Corsica, when one of the terraces collapsed, killing 18 people.
 * 4 July – Tour de France begins.
 * 5 July – French Grand Prix won by Nigel Mansell of the United Kingdom.
 * 26 July – Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births

 * 17 January
 * Dounia Abdourahim, handball player
 * Laura Augé, swimmer
 * 22 January – Benjamin Jeannot, footballer
 * 7 February – Jain, singer-songwriter and musician
 * 19 February – Marie Annequin, swimmer
 * 21 February – Gauthier Mahoto, footballer
 * 25 February – Annaïg Butel, footballer
 * 3 March – Sega Keita, footballer
 * 10 March – Neeskens Kebano, footballer
 * 28 March – Alexandre Ndoye, basketball player
 * 30 March – Abdoulaye Diallo, footballer
 * 31 March – William Gros, footballer
 * 6 April – Mikail Albayrak, footballer
 * 10 April – Najib Ammari, footballer
 * 13 April – Melodie Monrose, model
 * 24 April – Sigrid Agren, model
 * 29 April – Gaël N'Lundulu, footballer
 * 30 April – Mike Cestor, footballer
 * 11 May – Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, middle-distance athlete
 * 14 May – Anthony Derouard, footballer
 * 18 May – Kevin Mendy, basketball player
 * 22 May – Camille Lou, singer
 * 28 May – Stéphane Bahoken, footballer
 * 9 June
 * Yannick Agnel, swimmer
 * Dennis Appiah, footballer
 * 16 June – Alexandre Jallier, French basketball player
 * 17 June – Hugo Valente, French auto racing driver
 * 18 June
 * Rachid Alioui, footballer
 * Adama Soumaoro, footballer
 * 22 June – Terence Makengo, footballer
 * 29 June – Sabri Lontadila, basketball player
 * 6 August – Mehdi Abeid, footballer
 * 19 August – Estelle Mossely, Boxer
 * 4 September – Layvin Kurzawa, footballer
 * 12 September – Gilbert Imbula, footballer
 * 15 September – Camélia Jordana, pop singer
 * 11 October – Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro, footballer
 * 25 October – Clarisse Agbegnenou, judoka
 * 7 November – Agnès Raharolahy, sprinter
 * 1 December – Quentin Bigot, hammer thrower
 * 2 December – Massadio Haïdara, footballer
 * 12 December – Félix Maritaud, actor
 * 24 December – Serge Aurier, footballer

January to June

 * 21 January – Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician (born 1909).
 * 1 February – Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist (born 1909).
 * 20 February – Pierre Dervaux, operatic conductor and composer (born 1917).
 * 14 March – Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter (born 1926).
 * 16 March – Yves Rocard, physicist (born 1903).
 * 20 March – Georges Delerue, film composer (born 1925).
 * 30 March – Amédée Fournier, cyclist (born 1912).
 * 27 April – Olivier Messiaen, composer, organist and ornithologist (born 1908).
 * 5 May – Jean-Claude Pascal, costume designer and singer (born 1927).
 * 30 June – André Hébuterne, painter (born 1894).

July to December

 * 24 July – Arletty, singer and actress (born 1898).
 * 2 August – Michel Berger, singer and songwriter (born 1947).
 * 19 August – Jean-Albert Grégoire, car pioneer (born 1899).
 * 29 August – Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher (born 1930).
 * 16 September – Henri Legay, operatic tenor (born 1920).
 * 15 October – Paul Paillole, soldier (born 1905).
 * 29 November
 * Jean Dieudonné, mathematician (born 1906).
 * Raoul Ploquin, film producer, production manager and screenwriter.
 * 10 December – Jacques Perret, writer (born 1901).
 * 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, interior designer (born 1934).

Full date unknown

 * Jules Gros, Breton linguist (born 1890).
 * Bernard Lefebvre, photographer (born 1906).