2001 in France

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2001
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Events from the year 2001 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Jacques Chirac
  • Prime Minister: Lionel Jospin

Events[]

  • March – The Renault Vel Satis is launched at the Geneva Motor Show.
  • 8 March – Cantonales Elections held.
  • 11 March – Cantonales Elections held.
  • 11 March – Municipal Elections held.
  • 18 March – Municipal Elections held.
  • April – PSA Peugeot Citroën replaces two of its longest running cars – the Citroën Xantia and Peugeot 306 – with the Citroën C5 and Peugeot 307 respectively.[1]
  • September – Citroën launches the all-new C3 hatchback at the Frankfurt Motor Show as a replacement for the outdated Saxo.
  • 21 September – The AZote Fertilisant chemical factory in Toulouse, explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2500.
  • November – The Peugeot 307 is voted European Car of the Year.[2]

Sport[]

  • 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[]

  • 5 April – Thylane Blondeau, model and the daughter of soccer player Patrick Blondeau

Deaths[]

January to March[]

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

April to June[]

  • 10 April – Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, film director (born 1936).
  • 19 April – André du Bouchet, poet (born 1924).
  • 20 April – Maurice Lauré, creator of taxe sur la valeur ajoutée (TVA) (born 1917).
  • 6 May – René Bondoux, fencer (born 1905)
  • 14 May – Paul Bénichou, writer, critic and literary historian (born 1908).
  • 15 May – Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (born 1902).
  • 15 May – Sacha Vierny, cinematographer (born 1919).
  • 17 May – Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician (born 1928).
  • 6 June – Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (born 1886).
  • 11 June – Pierre Eyt, Cardinal (born 1934).
  • 13 June – , Military officer (born 1914).
  • 15 June – Henri Alekan, cinematographer (born 1909).
  • 18 June – René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (born 1904).
  • 23 June – Corinne Calvet, actress (born 1925).

July to September[]

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

October to December[]

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

Full date unknown[]

  • Édouard Artigas, fencer (born 1915).
  • Marcel Bleibtreu, Trotskyist activist and theorist (born 1918).
  • Pierre Chevalier, caver and mountaineer (born 1905).
  • André Pascal, songwriter and composer (born 1932).

See also[]

  • 2001 in French television
  • List of French films of 2001

References[]

  1. ^ "Peugeot Fans Club - PSA Peugeot-Citro n 1976-2001". Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Peugeot 307 (2001 – 2007)".
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