See also: 1942 in France, other events of 1943, 1944 in France.

Events from the year 1943 in France.

Events

• 22 January - Battle of Marseille begins. Nazis, assisted by French police, organized a raid to arrest Jewish people.
• 24 January - Battle of Marseille ends with 30,000 people expelled from their neighbourhood and 2,000 Jews eventually sent to the extermination camps.
• 21 May - Riom Trial ends, attempt by Vichy France regime to prove that the leaders of the French Third Republic had been responsible for France's defeat by Germany in 1940.
• 21 October - Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment.
• 22 November - Lebanon gains independence from France.

Sport

Births

• 11 February - Pierre Matignon, cyclist (d.1987).
• 20 February - Carlos, singer, entertainer and actor (d.2008).
• 23 April - Hervé Villechaize, actor (d.1993).
• 6 June - Jean-Michel Bertrand, politician (d.2008).
• 15 June - Johnny Hallyday, singer and actor.
• 30 August - Jean-Claude Killy, alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion.
• 5 November - Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher (d.2000).
• 5 December - Eva Joly, magistrate.

Full date unknown

• Jacques-Pierre Amette, journalist and writer.
• Marie-Françoise Audollent, actress (d.2008).

Deaths

• 18 August - Maurice Couette, physicist (b.1858).
• 24 August - Simone Weil, philosopher and social activist (b.1909).
• 19 October - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (b.1864).
• 10 December - Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, Socialist leader and Minister (b.1847).

Full date unknown

• André Antoine, actor-manager (b.1858).
• Henriette Caillaux, socialite and assassin (b.1874).

References