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| 1976 |
| | | Pierre Boulez establishes in Paris IRCAM, an advanced institute for research into the techniques of modern music | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Jacques Chirac, leader of a recently formed neo-Gaullist party, is elected mayor of Paris | |
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| 1977 |
| | | The Pompidou Centre, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, opens in Paris | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Francçois Mitterrand defeats Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the French presidential election | |
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| 1981 |
| | | 16-year-old ballerina Sylvie Guillem joins the Paris Opera Ballet | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Rudolf Nureyev begins a successful 6-year period as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen's opera St Francis of Assisi has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Luc Montagnier, at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discovers a new human retrovirus that he names LAV (later changed to HIV) | |
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| 1985 |
| | | US artist Christo tightly binds Paris's Pont Neuf in fabric, as one of his international series of wrapped iconic buildings | |
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| 1985 |
| | | French racing driver Alain Prost wins the first of his four Formula One titles | |
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