2001 in France

2001 in France

"See also:"
2000 in France,
other events of 2001,
2002 in France.

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Events from the year 2001 in France.

Events

*8 March - Cantonales Elections held.
*11 March - Cantonales Elections held.
*11 March - Municipal Elections held.
*18 March - Municipal Elections held.
*21 September - The AZote Fertilisant chemical factory in Toulouse, explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2500.

port

*15 April - Paris-Roubaix cycle race won by Servais Knaven of the Netherlands.
*1 July - French Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher of Germany.
*7 July - Tour de France begins.
*29 July - Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States.

Births

Deaths

January to March

*10 January - Jacques Marin, actor (b.1919).
*21 January - Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (b.1913).
*30 January - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (b.1911).
*8 February - Raymond Polin, philosopher (b.1910).
*18 February - Balthus, artist (b.1908).
*19 February - Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (b.1913).
*4 March - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (b.1904).

April to June

*10 April - Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, film director (b.1936).
*19 April - André du Bouchet, poet (b.1924).
*20 April - Maurice Lauré, creator of "taxe sur la valeur ajoutée" (TVA) (b.1917).
*14 May - Paul Bénichou, writer, critic and literary historian (b.1908).
*15 May - Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (b.1902).
*15 May - Sacha Vierny, cinematographer (b.1919).
*17 May - Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician (b.1928).
*6 June - Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (b.1886).
*11 June - Pierre Eyt, Cardinal (b.1934).
*13 June - Louis de Maigret, Military officer (b.1914).
*15 June - Henri Alekan, cinematographer (b.1909).
*18 June - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (b.1904).
*23 June - Corinne Calvet, actress (b.1925).

July to September

*July - Hélène de Beauvoir, painter (b.1910).
*3 August - Jeanne Loriod, musician (b.1928).
*4 August - Michel de Salzmann, psychiatrist (b.1923).
*12 August - Pierre Klossowski, writer, translator and artist (b.1905).
*15 August - Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (b.1891).
*25 August - Philippe Léotard, actor and singer (b.1940).
*4 September - Simone de la Chaume, golfer (b.1908).

October to December

*18 October - Micheline Ostermeyer, athlete and pianist (b.1922).
*31 October - Régine Cavagnoud, alpine skier (b.1970).
*11 November - Pierre Billaud, radio reporter and journalist, killed in Afghanistan (b.1970).
*12 December - Jean Richard, actor (b.1921).
*18 December - Gilbert Bécaud, singer, composer and actor (b.1927).
*19 December - Marcel Mule, classical saxophonist (b.1901).

Full date unknown

*Marcel Bleibtreu, Trotskyist activist and theorist (b.1918).
*Pierre Chevalier, caver and mountaineer (b.1905).
*André Pascal, song-writer and composer (b.1932).

References


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