2000 in France

"See also:"
1999 in France,
other events of 2000,
2001 in France.

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Events from the year 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.

Events

*1 February - a 35 hour working week imposed on companies of over 20 employees (see also Working Time Directive).
*June - National Assembly votes in favour of changing the Presidential term to five years. cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=649–650]
*25 July - Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crashed outside Paris killing all 109 passengers and crew.
*24 September - Constitutional Referendum is held on whether the presidential mandate should be reduced from seven to five years.
*4 November - a demonstration is held in Paris for the abolition of prisons.

Arts and Literature

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*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

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, aviatrix 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).

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 Eugène Félix 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).

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