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See also: 1984 in France, other events of 1985, 1986 in France.

Events from the year 1985 in France.

Events

• 10 March - Cantonales Elections held.
• 17 March - Cantonales Elections held.
• 10 July - The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) agents.
• 1 September - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 28 June - Tour de France begins.
• 21 July - Tour de France ends, won by Bernard Hinault.

Births

January to March

• 5 January - Mélanie Bernier, actress.
• 11 January - Julien Loubet, cyclist.
• 13 January - Souleymane Bamba, soccer player.
• 18 January - Benoît Benvegnu, soccer player.
• 22 January - Kevin Lejeune, soccer player.
• 23 January - Guy Moussi, soccer player.
• 29 January - Salomé Stévenin, actress.
• 31 January - Grégory Baugé, cyclist.
• 1 February - Yohann Lacroix, soccer player.
• 4 February - Clément Pinault, soccer player.
• 7 February - Christophe Mandanne, soccer player.
• 8 February - Habib Baldé, soccer player.
• 22 February - Hameur Bouazza, soccer player.
• 28 February - Fabien Camus, soccer player.
• 4 March - Mathieu Montcourt, tennis player.
• 7 March - Mohamed Fofana, soccer player.
• 10 March - Lassana Diarra, soccer player.
• 14 March - Loïc Jacquet, rugby union player.
• 23 March - Jonathan Hivert, cyclist.

April to June

• 19 April - Nicolas Maurice-Belay, soccer player.
• 22 April - Florian Cazalot, rugby union player.
• 30 April - Guillaume Rippert, soccer player.
• 8 May - Cédric Pineau, cyclist.
• 9 May - Jérémie Roumegous, soccer player.
• 10 May - Pierre Drancourt, cyclist.
• 12 May - André-Pierre Gignac, soccer player.
• 14 May - Baptiste Martin, soccer player.
• 20 May - Maxime Laheurte, nordic combined skier.
• 23 May - Jean-Charles Sénac, cyclist.
• 28 May - Simon Pouplin, soccer player.
• 1 June - Julien El Fares, cyclist.
• 2 June - Mathieu Robail, soccer player.
• 17 June - Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi, soccer player.
• 18 June - Bertrand N'Dzomo, soccer player.
• 26 June - Stéphane Poulhies, cyclist.

July to September

• 4 July - David Larose, judoka.
• 12 July - Maurice Dalé, soccer player.
• 12 July - Jean-Christophe Vergerolle, soccer player.
• 16 July - Olivier Veigneau, soccer player.
• 22 July - Boukary Dramé, soccer player.
• 25 July - Mathieu Debuchy, soccer player.
• 25 July - Guillaume Levarlet, cyclist.
• 26 July - Gaël Clichy, soccer player.
• 31 July - Rémy Di Gregorio, cyclist.
• 7 August - Loïc Perrin, soccer player.
• 15 August - Julien N'Da, soccer player.
• 20 September - Alban Préaubert, figure skater.
• 21 September - Jean-Louis Leca, soccer player.

October to December

• 3 October - Julien Gerbi, motor racing driver
• 4 October - Julien Simon, cyclist
• 24 October - Lionel Beauxis, rugby union player
• 29 October - Romain Vincelot, soccer player
• 4 November - Gauthier Diafutua, soccer player
• 8 November - Vincent Bessat, soccer player
• November 26 - Sophie Huber, freestyle swimmer
• 2 December - Amaury Leveaux, swimmer
• 19 December - Julien Toudic, soccer player
• 28 December - Benoît Trémoulinas, soccer player

Full date unknown

• Faïza Guène, writer and director.

Deaths

January to June

• 2 January - Jacques de Lacretelle, novelist (b.1888).
• 3 January - Lucien Cailliet, composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist (b.1897).
• 20 February - Georges Girard, bacteriologist (b.1888).
• 12 March - Alfred Eluère, rugby union player (b.1893).
• 15 April - Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, film director, script-writer, playwright and author (b.1909).
• 17 April - Germaine Sablon, singer and actress (b.1899).
• 12 May - Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (b.1901).
• 31 May - Gaston Rébuffat, alpinist and mountain guide (b.1921).
• 31 May - Louis Robert, historian and author (b.1904).
• 1 June - Eugène Séguy, entomologist (b.1890).
• 12 June - Dominique Laffin, actress (b.1952).

July to December

• 9 July - Pierre-Paul Grassé, zoologist (b.1895).
• 17 July - Philippe de Chérisey, writer, radio humorist, and actor (b.1923).
• 1 August - Jules Moch, politician (b.1893).
• 29 August - Michel Pécheux, fencer (b.1911).
• 3 September - Gilles Thomas, science fiction writer (b.1929).
• 30 September - Simone Signoret, actress (b.1921).
• 24 November - René Barjavel, author, journalist and critic (b.1911).
• 27 November - Fernand Braudel, historian (b.1902).
• 27 November - André Hunebelle, film director (b.1896).
• 13 December - Pierre Nord, writer, spy and resistance member (b.1900).
• 27 December - Jean Rondeau, motor racing driver and constructor (b.1946).

Full date unknown

• Gerard Albouy, milliner (b.1912).
• Ferdinand Alquié, philosopher (b.1906).
• François Châtelet, historian of philosophy (b.1925).
• Henri-Robert Petit, journalist, Collaborationist under the Vichy regime and far-right activist (b.1899).

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