1992 in France

Incumbents

• President: François Mitterrand
• Prime Minister: Édith Cresson Pierre Bérégovoy

  Events

• 22 March – Regional Elections held.
• 22 March – Cantonales Elections held.
• 29 March – Cantonales Elections held.
• 12 April – Euro Disney resort and theme park opens to the east of Paris.
• 17 June – The French national football team's hopes of winning Euro 92 are ended by a 2–1 defeat to Denmark in the final group game in Sweden.
• 20 September – Maastricht Treaty referendum held, with a small majority in favour of ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
• 8 October – Launch of the Renault Twingo, an entry level car which takes on a ground-breaking one-box design and will compete with the likes of the new Fiat Cinquecento.
• 17 November – Start of the "couscous connection" trial in which the brother of the President of Tunisia is accused of laundering drug money.

  Arts and literature

• 9 April – Jean-François Deniau, essayist and novelist, elected to the Académie française.
• 12 April – Disneyland Paris officially opens under the name "EuroDisney".
• 20 December – The Folies Bergère music hall in Paris closes.

  Sport

• 8 February – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville.
• 23 February – The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics is held.
• 5 May – Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia, Corsica, when one of the terraces collapsed, killing 18 people.
• 4 July – Tour de France begins.
• 5 July – French Grand Prix won by Nigel Mansell of the United Kingdom.
• 26 July – Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

  Births

• 17 January
• * Dounia Abdourahim, handball player
• * Laura Augé, swimmer
• 22 January – Benjamin Jeannot, footballer
• 19 February – Marie Annequin, swimmer
• 21 February – Gauthier Mahoto, footballer
• 25 February – Annaïg Butel, footballer
• 3 March – Sega Keita, footballer
• 10 March – Neeskens Kebano, footballer
• 30 March – Abdoulaye Diallo, footballer
• 31 March – William Gros, footballer
• 6 April – Mikail Albayrak, footballer
• 10 April – Najib Ammari, footballer
• 13 April – Melodie Monrose, model
• 24 April – Sigrid Agren, model
• 29 April – Gaël N'Lundulu, footballer
• 30 April – Mike Cestor, footballer
• 11 May – Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, middle distance athlete
• 14 May – Anthony Derouard, footballer
• 18 May – Kevin Mendy, basketball player
• 22 May – Camille Lou, singer
• 28 May – Stéphane Bahoken, footballer
• 9 June
• * Yannick Agnel, swimmer
• * Dennis Appiah, footballer
• 17 June – Hugo Valente, French auto racing driver
• 18 June
• * Rachid Alioui, footballer
• * Adama Soumaoro, footballer
• 22 June – Terence Makengo, footballer
• 6 August – Mehdi Abeid, footballer
• 7 August – Vauvenargues Kehi, footballer
• 19 August – Estelle Mossely, Boxer
• 4 September – Layvin Kurzawa, footballer
• 12 September – Gilbert Imbula, footballer
• 15 September – Camélia Jordana, pop singer
• 11 October – Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro, footballer
• 25 October – Clarisse Agbegnenou, judoka
• 7 November – Agnès Raharolahy, sprinter
• 1 December – Quentin Bigot, hammer thrower
• 2 December – Massadio Haïdara, footballer
• 24 December – Serge Aurier, footballer

  Deaths

January to June

• 21 January – Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician.
• 1 February – Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist.
• 20 February – Pierre Dervaux, operatic conductor and composer.
• 14 March – Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter.
• 16 March – Yves Rocard, physicist.
• 20 March – Georges Delerue, film composer.
• 30 March – Amédée Fournier, cyclist.
• 27 April – Olivier Messiaen, composer, organist and ornithologist.
• 5 May – Jean-Claude Pascal, costume designer and singer.
• 30 June – André Hébuterne, painter.

  July to December

• 24 July – Arletty, singer and actress.
• 2 August – Michel Berger, singer and songwriter.
• 19 August – Jean-Albert Grégoire, car pioneer.
• 29 August – Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher.
• 16 September – Henri Legay, operatic tenor.
• 15 October – Paul Paillole, soldier.
• 29 November
• * Jean Dieudonné, mathematician.
• * Raoul Ploquin, film producer, production manager and screenwriter.
• 10 December – Jacques Perret, writer.
• 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, interior designer.

  Full date unknown

• Jules Gros, Breton linguist.
• Bernard Lefebvre, photographer.