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See also: 1998 in France, other events of 1999, 2000 in France.

Events from the year 1999 in France.

Events

• 3 March - ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty by the French National Assembly.
• 17 March - ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty by the Senate.
• 24 March - Fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.
• 13 June - European Parliament election in France.
• 11 August - a total solar eclipse occurs in the north of France.
• 13 October - Pacte civil de solidarité (a type of civil union) adopted by French Parliament.
• 12 December - a ship, Erika, breaks up near Penmarc'h spilling 37 000 tons of fuel, causing an oil slick on the Breton, Vendean and Charentaise coasts. Loire-Atlantique is particularly affected.
• 26 December and 28 December - storms Lothar and Martin cause heavy damage with winds reaching 180 km/h. The total damage includes more than 90 dead, 6 billion euros paid by the insurers and 10,000 km² of forest devastated.

Arts and literature

• 2 September - Publication of Jean-Marie Guéhenno's "L'avenir de la liberté - La démocratie dans la mondialisation", which examines the problems arising from confrontation between the democracy and globalisation

Sport

• 27 June - French Grand Prix won by Rubens Barrichello of Brazil.
• 3 July - Tour de France begins.
• 25 July - Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States.

Births

Deaths

January

• 6 January — Michel Petrucciani, Jazz pianist (b.1962).
• 19 January — Jacques Lecoq, actor, mime and acting instructor (b.1921).
• 24 January - Roger Rondeaux, cyclo-cross racer (b.1920).
• 25 January - Henri Rochereau, politician and European Commissioner (b.1908).
• 26 January - Jeanne-Marie Darré, pianist (b.1905).

February

• 3 February - Luc Borrelli, soccer player (b.1965).
• 12 February - André Devigny, soldier and French Resistance member (b.1916).
• 18 February - Andreas Feininger, photographer (b.1906).

March

• 12 March - André Nocquet, aikido teacher (b.1914).
• 17 March - Jean Pierre-Bloch, French Resistance member (b.1905).
• 21 March — Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (b.1901).

May

• 25 May - René Gallice, soccer player (b.1919).

June

• 9 June - Maurice Journeau, composer (b.1898).
• 19 June — Henri, comte de Paris, Orléanist claimant to the French throne (b.1908).
• 28 June - Louis Ducatel, politician and businessman (b.1902).
• 30 June — Edouard Boubat, photographer (b.1923).

July to October

• 16 July — André Martinet, linguist (b.1908).
• 30 August - Raymond Poïvet, cartoonist (b.1910).
• 15 September - Michel Pinseau, architect (b.1924).
• 4 October — Bernard Buffet, painter (b.1928).
• 27 October - Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer (b.1903).

November

• 3 November — Alan Heusaff, Breton nationalist and linguist (b.1921).
• 9 November - Claude Ballot-Léna, motor racing driver (b.1936).
• 11 November - Alphonse Antoine, cyclist (b.1915).
• 21 November - Serge Lang, journalist, alpine skier, and founder of the alpine skiing World Cup (b.1920).
• 25 November - Pierre Bézier, engineer (b.1910).
• 27 November - Alain Peyrefitte, scholar and politician (b.1925).

December

• 6 December — Paul Bacon, politician (b.1907).
• 18 December — Robert Bresson, film director (b.1901).
• 23 December - Marcel Landowski, composer, biographer and arts administrator (b.1915).
• 24 December — Maurice Couve de Murville, politician and Prime Minister (b.1907).
• 28 December - Pierre Clémenti, actor (b.1942).
• 28 December - Louis Féraud, fashion designer and artist (b.1921).

Full date unknown

• Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist (b.1903).
• Yann Goulet, sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany (b.1914).
• René Le Hir, Breton nationalist (b.1920).
• Laure Leprieur, radio personality (b.1919).