2000 in France

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See also:	Other events of 2000 Timeline of French history

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in France.

The year 2000 is in particular remembered in France by a media campaign on the conditions of detention of prisoners. A parliamentary board of inquiry was created. The conclusions of the report were that French prisons were both unhealthy and over-populated. The sanitary arrangements were considered to be scandalous. The government of Lionel Jospin launched a programme to renovate and build new prisons.

Incumbents

• President: Jacques Chirac
• Prime Minister: Lionel Jospin

Events

February

• 1 February – a 35-hour working week imposed on companies of over 20 employees (see also Working Time Directive).

June

• June – National Assembly votes in favour of changing the Presidential term to five years.^[1]

July

• 25 July – Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crashed outside Paris killing all 109 passengers and crew.^[1]

September

• 24 September – Constitutional Referendum is held on whether the presidential mandate should be reduced from seven to five years.

November

• 4 November – a demonstration is held in Paris for the abolition of prisons.

Sport

• 1 July – Tour de France begins.
• 2 July — France wins the UEFA European Football Championship.
• 2 July – French Grand Prix won by David Coulthard of the United Kingdom.
• 23 July – Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States.

Births

• 3 August – Léo Rispal, singer and winner

Deaths

January to March

• 1 January – Jean-Claude Izzo, poet, playwright, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1945).
• 2 January – Henri René Guieu, science fiction writer (b. 1926).
• 3 February – Pierre Plantard, draughtsman, principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax (b. 1920).
• 5 February – Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP (b. 1901).
• 11 February – Jacqueline Auriol, aviator who set several world speed records (b. 1917).
• 11 February – Roger Vadim, film director (b. 1928).
• 5 March – Lolo Ferrari, dancer, porn star, actress, and singer (b. 1963).

April to June

• 11 April – Pierre Ghestem, bridge and checkers player (b. 1922).
• 20 May – Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist (b. 1922).
• 6 June – Frédéric Dard, writer (b. 1921).
• 22 June – Philippe Chatrier, tennis player (b. 1926).
• 25 June – Pascal Themanlys, poet, zionist, and Kabbalist (b. 1909).
• 27 June – Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister (b. 1907).
• 28 June – Sid Ahmed Rezala, French serial killer (b. 1979).

July to September

• 3 July – André Guinier, physicist (b. 1911).
• 17 July – Pascale Audret, actress (b. 1936).
• 18 July – René Chocat, basketball player (b. 1920).
• 22 July – Claude Sautet, author and film director (b. 1924).
• 14 August – Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher (b. 1943).
• 26 August – Odette Joyeux, actress and writer (b. 1914).
• 20 September – Jeanloup Sieff, photographer (b. 1933).

October to December

• 10 November – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (b. 1915).
• 10 November – Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator (b. 1930).
• 17 November – Louis Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 (b. 1904).
• 22 November – Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (b. 1902).
• 25 November – Raymond Janot, politician.
• 29 November – Bernard Pertuiset, neurosurgeon (b. 1920).
• 15 December – Jacques Goddet, sports journalist and Tour de France director (b. 1905).
• 28 December – Jacques Laurent, writer and journalist (b. 1919).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Allain, climber (b. 1904).
• Pierre Gabaye, composer (b. 1930).
• Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar (b. 1915).
• Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General (b. 1898).

See also

• List of French films of 2000

References

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