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1986
 
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Baby Doc Duvalier escapes from Haiti in a US airforce jet and goes into exile in France   See in Google maps   
1986
 
 
Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu star in Jean De Florette, adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol    
1987
 
     
Sylvie Guillem and Laurent Hilaire dance in the Paris premiere of William Forsythe's In the middle somewhat elevated        
1989
 
    
French ballerina Sylvie Guillem moves from Paris to join the Royal Ballet in London       
1990
 
    
Gérard Depardieu plays the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, based on the play by Edmond Rostand       
1993
 
    
US architect Ieoh Ming Pei completes his underground extension of the Louvre, surmounted by a glass pyramid       
1994
 
     
France's President Mitterrand and the British queen Elizabeth II together open the tunnel under the English Channel        
1994
 
   
Art, a play by French-born Iranian playwright Yasmina Reza, has its premiere in Berlin      
c. 1994
 
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Potholers discover the world's oldest known paintings in the Chauvet cave in southern France      
Horse heads in Chauvet Cave


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1995
 
    
Jacques Chirac defeats the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, in the French presidential election