1970 in France

Events from the year 1970 in France.

Incumbents

10 February – An avalanche at Val d'Isère kills 39 tourists.
8 March – Cantonales Elections held.
15 March – Cantonales Elections held.
25 March – Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).
11 April – 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps.
19 May – Barbapapa was created by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor.
6 October – President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
11 October – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
1 November – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Isère, kills 146.
Undated
Citroen launches two new models: the GS family saloon and estate, and the SM sporting coupe. The Citroen GS is voted European Car of the Year.{{Cite web|url=http://histomobile.com/m2/l2/citroen-gs/159331.htm|title = Citroen gs}}
Establishment of Parc naturel régional de Camargue.

10 January – Christine Malèvre, serial killer.
28 January – Laurent Levesque, film score composer.
29 January
Jacqueline Delord, swimmer{{cite web |title=Olympedia – Jacqueline Delord |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/46712 |website=www.olympedia.org |access-date=27 August 2024}}
Olivier Edmond, golfer.
3 February – Franck Gava, soccer player.
6 February – Patrice Loko, soccer player.
14 February – Guillaume Raoux, tennis player.
17 February – Philippe Bernat-Salles, international rugby union player.
4 March – Amélie Sarn, author, comic book writer and translator.
7 March – Nathalie Lancien, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist.
12 March – Marine Delterme, actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
13 March – Stéphane Goubert, cyclist.
21 March – Franck David, sailor and Olympic gold medallist.
27 March – Gedeon Naudet, filmmaker.
28 March – Benjamin Castaldi, television personality

10 April – Christophe Honoré, writer and film director.
14 April – Richard Sainct, Rally Raid Motorcycle rider (d.2004).
15 April – Luc Marquet, volleyball player.
24 April – Jean-Philippe Belloc, motor racing driver.
3 May – Alexia Dechaume-Balleret, tennis player.
5 May – Laurent Crost, judoka.
13 May – Wilfrid Boulineau, decathlete.
21 May – Pierre Billaud, radio reporter and journalist, killed in Afghanistan (d.2001).
22 May – Guillaume Warmuz, soccer player.
15 June – Gaëlle Méchaly, soprano.
18 June – Ludovic Pollet, soccer player.
27 June – Régine Cavagnoud, alpine skier (d.2001).
27 June – Christophe Deguerville, soccer player.
30 June – Emmanuel Mouret, actor, director and screenwriter

4 January – Jean-Étienne Valluy, general (b. 1899).
8 January – Georges Guibourg, French actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1891)
20 January – François Tanguy-Prigent, politician and resistance fighter (b. 1909).
25 January – Jane Bathori, opera singer (b. 1877).
29 January – Marie-Laure de Noailles, patron of the arts (b. 1902).
1 February – Eugène Christophe, cyclist (b. 1885).
20 February – Gaston Modot, actor (b. 1887).
17 March – Jérôme Carcopino, historian and author (b. 1881).
22 March – Georges Malkine, painter (b. 1898).

10 April – Henri Marchal, archaeologist (b. 1876).
22 May – Georges Limbour, writer (b. 1900).
23 May – René Capitant, lawyer and politician (b. 1901).
2 June – Albert Lamorisse, filmmaker, producer and writer (b. 1922).
6 June – Camille Bombois, naïve painter (b. 1883).
15 June – Henri Queuille, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France (b. 1884).
16 June – Elsa Triolet, writer (b. 1896).
27 June – Pierre Mac Orlan, novelist and songwriter (b. 1882).

10 July – Félix Gaillard, Radical politician and Prime Minister of France (b. 1919).
11 July – André Lurçat, architect (b. 1894).
19 July – Henri Lauvaux, athlete and Olympic medallist (b. 1900).
30 July – Jean d'Eaubonne, art director (b. 1903).
5 August – Lucien Lamoureux, politician and Minister (b. 1888).
25 August – Marcel Allain, writer (b. 1885).
1 September – François Mauriac, author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1885).
2 September – Marie Pierre Kœnig, general and politician (b. 1898).
5 September – André Simon, wine merchant, gourmet and writer (b. 1877).
23 September – Bourvil, actor and singer (b. 1917).

8 October – Jean Giono, author (b. 1895).
9 October – Edmond Michelet, politician (b. 1899).
10 October – Édouard Daladier, Radical-Socialist politician and Prime Minister of France (b. 1884).
18 October – Jean De Briac, actor (b. 1891).
2 November – Pierre Veyron, motor racing driver (b. 1903).
6 November – Henri Jeanson, writer and journalist (b. 1900).
9 November – Charles de Gaulle, general, statesman, President (b. 1890).
1 December – Hermine David, painter (b. 1886).
7 December – Émile Girardeau, engineer (b. 1882).
16 December – Laurent Eynac, politician and Minister (b. 1886).
18 December – Marc Boegner, theologist, pastor, French Resistance member and essayist (d.1881).