16 June – 108 die as two passenger trains hit debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons.
1 July – Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
5 July – President Pompidou dismisses prime minister Chaban-Delmas following rumours of financial misdoing.[1]
October – The Peugeot 104, the smallest four-door car in the world, is launched.[3]
28 October – The first flight of the Airbus A300, the first airliner built by Airbus.
19 November – Almost 2,000 people demonstrate in support of Saïd and Faouzia Bouziri at the square within Quartier de La Chapelle, forcing the expulsion order to be dropped[4]
28 November – The last executions in Paris: Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at La Santé Prison by chief executioner André Obrecht. Bontems, found not guilty of murder by the court, is condemned as Buffet's accomplice. President Pompidou, in private an abolitionist, upholds both death sentences in deference to public opinion.[5]
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