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Birthdays

1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier (French soldier)

1773 - King Louis-Philippe I

1801 - Hippolyte Carnot (French statesman)

1876 - Ernest Lapointe (French-Canadian politician)

1887 - Le Corbusier (French-Swiss architect)

1888 - Roland Garros (French pilot)

1938 - Serge Nubret (French bodybuilder)

1973 - Sylvain Legwinski (French soccer player)

Deaths

1644 - Elisabeth of France (wife of Philip IV of Spain)

1660 - Paul Scarron (French writer)

1912 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert (Belgian statesman)

1973 - François Cevert (French race car driver)

1980 - Jean Robic (French cyclist)

Milestones/Events

1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returned to Paris after confrontation with Parisian women on 5 October

2002 - French oil tanker Limburg bombed off Yemen

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