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List of events
Events from the year
1942 in
France .
Incumbents
Events
19 February –
Riom Trial begins, 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.
28 March – British Commandos raid
St Nazaire on the coast of Western France.
5 May –
Battle of Madagascar begins,
Allied campaign to capture
Vichy French -controlled
Madagascar during
World War II .
26 May –
Battle of Bir Hakeim begins,
First Free French Division defends the site against the Italian and German
Afrika Korps .
11 June – Battle of Bir Hakeim ends, a successful delaying action.
14 July –
Bastille Day
Gaullist demonstrations in Vichy France; 2 women are shot dead by members of the fascist
French Popular Party (PPF) in
Marseille .
16 July –
Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv ), the
mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the
Winter Velodrome in Paris and
Drancy internment camp before deportation to
Auschwitz .
18 September – 116 people are executed in retaliation for recent attacks on German soldiers
19 August – Unsuccessful
Dieppe Raid is carried out by Allied forces.
24 September –
Andrée Borrel and
Lise de Baissac became the first female
SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France.
8 November
Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in
French North Africa .
French Resistance Coup in
Algiers , by which 400 French civil resistants neutralize the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist generals so allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
Madagascar finally secured by Allied forces.
10 November – In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades
Vichy France following French Admiral
François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the
Allies in
North Africa .
27 November –
Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon takes place, ordered by the Admiralty of
Vichy France to avoid capture by
Nazi German forces.
7 December – British commandos conduct
Operation Frankton , a raid on shipping in
Bordeaux harbour.
24 December –
Admiral Darlan , the former
Vichy leader who has switched over to the Allies following the Torch landings, assassinated in
Algiers .
Sport
Births
18 January –
Johnny Servoz-Gavin ,
motor racing driver (died 2006)
21 March –
Françoise Dorléac , actress (died 1967)
26 April –
Claudine Auger , actress (died 2019)
12 May –
Michel Fugain , singer-songwriter
24 June –
Antoine Berman ,
translator and
historian (died 1991)
12 September –
François Tavenas , academic in
Canada (died 2004)
28 September –
Pierre Clémenti , actor (died 1999)
29 September –
Jean-Luc Ponty , jazz violinist and composer
17 October –
Jean-Pierre Dogliani , soccer player (died 2003)
19 October –
Edmond Baraffe , soccer player and manager (died 2020)
30 October –
Sophie Body-Gendrot , political scientist, criminologist and sociologist (died 2018)
30 November –
André Brahic , astrophysicist (died 2016)
19 December –
Jean-Patrick Manchette , novelist (died 1995)
Deaths
See also
References
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