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This article lists major events that happened in 2018 in France.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

January[]

February[]

  • 20 February – Beginning of the "Operation Dead Island ", a general strike lasting several weeks in Mayotte against insecurity and uncontrolled Comorian immigration
  • 23 February – 35 mayors in the Nièvre department resign to protest against the closure of the Clamecy hospital emergency room at night.[2]

March[]

White March in memory of Mireille Knoll

April[]

May[]

Démonstration by female filmmakers demanding equality between men and women in the film industry, during 2018 Cannes Film Festival
  • 8 May – Beginning of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
  • 12 May – 2018 Paris knife attack.
  • 27 May – Beginning of the 2018 French Open.

June[]

  • 24 June – Dismantling of the right-wing extremist terrorist group "Action of the operational forces" (AFO) by the arrest of its 9 members – including its chief – and arrest of the leader of self-proclaimed group "Volontaires pour la France"; seizure of about twenty firearms and dismantling of a clandestine laboratory of homemade explosives. The AFO had planned to carry out attacks in France against Muslims.

July[]

Sight of people to celebrate France's victory at the 2018 football World Cup, in Chambéry
  • 1 July – Simone Veil and Antoine Veil,her husband, were buried in the Panthéon
  • 7 July – First race of the 2018 Tour de France.
  • 15 July – France wins the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
  • 18 July – Revelations by Le Monde mark the beginning of the Benalla affair.
  • 30 July – A racist shooting wounds 7 people in Beaune, the two suspected shooters are arrested in Saint-Andiol on August 10.

August[]

  • 1 August – Lawmakers vote to outlaw catcalling.[citation needed]
  • 28 August – Nicolas Hulot resigns as Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition to protest against the government's ecological policy.

September[]

October[]

  • 2 October – Gérard Collomb resigns as Minister of the Interior to resume his post as Mayor of Lyon.
  • 3 October – Arrest of Rédoine Faïd.
  • 5 October – National tribute to singer Charles Aznavour, died on October 1.
  • 10 October – Two people lose their lives in floods in Sainte-Maxime because of a Mediterranean episode (178 mm fell).
  • 11 October – Resignation of 69 mayors and councilors of the department of Indre to protest against the closure of the Le Blanc maternity ward.
  • 15 October – A very violent Mediterranean episode, an indirect consequence of hurricane Leslie, causes exceptional flash floods in the Aude, with accumulations of exceptional rains (295 mm in Trèbes in 12 hours, close to 300 mm in Carcassonne), which kill 15 people (including 9 in Trèbes). The city of Trèbes and the villages of Villegailhenc, Villalier, Villardonnel and Saint-Couat-d'Aude are ravaged. This is the worst flood in the region since 1999.
  • 16 October – Philippe government reshuffle : Christophe Castaner becomes Minister of the Interior, Didier Guillaume Minister of Agriculture, Franck Riester Minister of Culture and Marc Fesneau becomes Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament.
  • 17 October – Creation of the National Assembly's parliamentary group, Liberties and Territories.

November[]

Gilets jaunes in Belfort

December[]

Deaths[]

January[]

France Gall
Jean-Louis Koszul
Paul Bocuse
  • 4 January –
    • Lyli Herse, racing cyclist (born 1928)[3]
    •  [fr], writer (born 1957)[4]
  • 7 January – France Gall, singer (born 1947)[5]
  • 9 January – Jean-Marc Mazzonetto, rugby union player (b. 1983).[6]
  • 10 January –
  • 12 January –
    • Pierre Pincemaille, organist (b. 1956)
    • Jean-Louis Koszul, mathematician (b. 1921)
  • 17 January –
  • 19 January –
    • Alain Devaquet, politician (b. 1942)
    • Marcel Frémiot, composer and musicologist (b. 1920).[8]
  • 20 January – Paul Bocuse, chef (b. 1926)
  • 21 January –
    • Yves Afonso, actor (b. 1944)
    •  [fr], historian (b. 1922)
    • Philippe Gondet, footballer (b. 1942)
  • 24 January – Renaud Gagneux, composer (b. 1947)
  • 25 January – Arnaud Giovaninetti, actor (b. 1967)
  • 28 January – Raymond Lory, politician (b. 1926).[9]

February[]

Jacqueline Vaudecrane
  • 1 February –
  • 5 February – Mathieu Riboulet, writer and film director (b. 1960).[11]
  • 6 February – Bernard Darmet, racing cyclist (b. 1945).[12]
  • 9 February –
    • Antoine Culioli, linguist (b. 1924).[13]
    • Bernard Koura, painter (b. 1923).[14]
  • 12 February – Françoise Xenakis, writer (b. 1930).[15]
  • 13 February – Joseph Bonnel, footballer (b.1939).[16]
  • 15 February –
  • 18 February –
    • Victor Franco, journalist (b. 1930).[19]
    • Didier Lockwood, jazz violinist (b. 1956).[20]
  • 20 February – Arnaud Geyre, racing cyclist (b. 1935)
  • 27 February –
    • Henri Leonetti, footballer (b. 1937)
    • Jacqueline Vaudecrane, figure skater (b. 1913)
  • 28 February – Pierre Milza, historian (b. 1932).[21]

March[]

Hubert de Givenchy
  • 3 March –
    • Jacques Gernet, sinologist (b. 1921).[22]
    • Yvon Taillandier, artist (b. 1926).[23]
  • 5 March – André S. Labarthe, actor, film producer and director (b. 1931).[24]
  • 6 March – Francis Piasecki, footballer (b. 1951).[25]
  • 8 March – Jean Jolivet, philosopher (b. 1925).[26]
  • 10 March –
    • Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer, founder of the house of Givenchy (b. 1927)
    • Michel Raynaud, mathematician (b. 1938).[27]
  • 16 March – Guy Cury, hurdler (b. 1930).[28]
  • 17 March – Geneviève Fontanel, actress (b. 1936).[29]
  • 19 March – Jean Michel Larrasket, engineer (b. 1950)
  • 24 March – Arnaud Beltrame, gendarme, (b. 1973).[30]
  • 27 March –
  • 28 March – Clément Rosset, philosopher and writer (b. 1939).[33]

April[]

F'Murr in 2009
Rose Laurens
Geneviève Claisse in 1995
  • 1 April –
  • 2 April – Paul Sinibaldi, footballer (b. 1921).[35]
  • 3 April –
    • Irma Rapuzzi, politician (b. 1910).[36]
    • Jacques Tixier, archaeologist and prehistorian (b. 1925).[37]
  • 6 April – Jacques Higelin, pop singer (b. 1940).[38]
  • 8 April – André Lerond, footballer (b. 1930).[39]
  • 10 April – Richard Peyzaret, better known by his pen name F'Murr, comics artist (b. 1946).[40]
  • 11 April – Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, politician and journalist (b. 1918).[41]
  • 13 April – André Maman, politician and philologist (b. 1927)
  • 14 April – Jean-Claude Malgoire, conductor (b. 1940).[42]
  • 18 April – Jean Flori, medieval historian (b. 1936)
  • 19 April –
  • 21 April – Firmin Le Bourhis, crime fiction writer (b. 1950)
  • 24 April – Henri Michel, footballer (b. 1947)
  • 26 April –
    • Jean Duprat, politician (b. 1936)
    • Pierre Plateau, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
  • 29 April – Rose Laurens, singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
  • 30 April – Geneviève Claisse, abstract painter (b. 1935).[43]

May[]

Nicole Fontaine in 2002
  • 4 May –
  • 6 May – Jean-Claude Decagny, politician (b. 1939).[45]
  • 11 May – Gérard Genette, literary theorist (b. 1930).[46]
  • 13 May – Lucien Villa, politician (b. 1922).[47]
  • 15 May – Jean-Claude Lamy, journalist (b. 1941).[48]
  • 17 May – Nicole Fontaine, lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament (b. 1942).[49]
  • 28 May
    • Paulette Coquatrix, costume designer (b. 1916).[50]
    • Serge Dassault, businessman and politician (b. 1925).[51]
    • Yves de Daruvar, military officer and politician (b. 1921).[52]

June[]

Yvette Horner in 1960
  • 1 June –
    • Jean-Claude Boulard, politician, (b. 1943).[53]
    • René Séjourné, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint-Flour (b. 1930).[54]
  • 2 June – André Desvages, racing cyclist (b. 1944).[55]
  • 9 June – Françoise Bonnot, film editor, Oscar winner 1970 for Z (b. 1939).[56]
  • 11 June –
  • 19 June – Paul John Marx, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea) (b. 1935).[59]
  • 24 June – Jacques Saadé, shipping executive (b. 1937).[60]

July[]

Frank Giroud in 2010
  • 1 July – François Corbier, songwriter and television presenter (b. 1944).[61]
  • 2 July –
  • 3 July –
  • 4 July – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, poet and novelist (b. 1914).[66]
  • 5 July –
    • François Budet, singer-songwriter, novelist, and poet (b. 1940).[67]
    • Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker (b. 1925).[68]
    • Gerald Messadié, scientific journalist, historian, essayist and novelist (b. 1931).[69]
    • Michel Suffran, novelist (b. 1931).[70]
    • Jean-Louis Tauran, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1943).[71]
  • 7 July – Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, royal, soldier and race car driver (b. 1926).[72]
  • 12 July – Alain Fauré, politician (b. 1962).[73]
  • 13 July –
    • Frank Giroud, comics writer (b. 1956).[74]
    • Luc Rosenzweig, journalist and non-fiction writer (b. 1943)
    • Claude Seignolle, writer (b. 1917).[75]
  • 16 July – Madeleine Kamman, chef and restaurateur (b. 1931).[76]
  • 23 July – Pierre Pican, bishop (b. 1935).[77]
  • 25 July – Guy Fallot, cellist (b. 1927).[78]

August[]

Rosa Bouglione

September[]

René Pétillon
  • 1 September – Jean Seitlinger, politician (born 1924)
  • 5 September – François Flohic, naval officer (born 1920)
  • 6 September –
    • Philippe Eidel, music producer (born 1956)
    • Gilbert Lazard, linguist and iranologist (born 1920)
  • 7 September – Micheline Rozan, stage and film producer (born 1928)
  • 10 September –
    • Michel Bonnevie, basketball player (born 1921)
    • Paul Virilio, urbanist (born 1932)
  • 10 September –
    • Marceline Loridan-Ivens, writer and film director (born 1928)
    • Jean Piat, actor and writer (born 1924)
  • 29 September – Pascale Casanova, literary critic (born 1959)
  • 30 September – René Pétillon, cartoonist and comics artist (born 1945)

December[]

  • December 5 – Marie-Thérèse Bourquin, French lawyer and first female member of the Belgian council estate (b. 1916)[87]
  • December 28 – Georges Loinger, French resistance fighter (b. 1910)[88]

References[]

  1. ^ Willsher, Kim (2018-01-24). "Paris on flooding alert as rising Seine causes travel disruption". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  2. ^ « Nièvre : 35 maires remettent leur démission pour protester contre la fermeture des urgences de Clamecy » [archive], sur lemonde.fr, 23 February 2018.
  3. ^ "L'ancienne championne française Lyli Herse est décédée". boursorama.com (in French). Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Divi nous a quittés". www.fr.brezhoneg.bzh (in French). Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  5. ^ "French pop star France Gall dies at 70". Reuters. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  6. ^ Stade Montois : l’ancien joueur Jean-Marc Mazzonetto est décédé dans un accident (in French)
  7. ^ Bénédicte Pesle Dies at 90; Introduced American Stage Artists to France
  8. ^ Avis de décès (in French)
  9. ^ Joué-lès-Tours: décès de l'ancien maire Raymond Lory (in French)
  10. ^ Mort d’André Baudry, fondateur d’Arcadie la première association homosexuelle française (in French)
  11. ^ L'écrivain Mathieu Riboulet est décédé (in French)
  12. ^ Bernard Darmet est mort (in French)
  13. ^ Antoine Culioli (1924–2018): figure majeure de la linguistique contemporaine (in French)
  14. ^ Alençon : Bernard Koura est décédé (in French)
  15. ^ La journaliste et romancière Françoise Xenakis s'est éteinte à 87 ans (in French)
  16. ^ Joseph Bonnel s’est éteint… (in French)
  17. ^ Décès de Jacques Hébert, Compagnon de La Libération (in French)
  18. ^ Mort de Daniel Vernet, ancien directeur de la rédaction du « Monde » (in French)
  19. ^ Le journaliste, prix Albert-Londres, Victor Franco est décédé (in French)
  20. ^ Didier Lockwood, French Jazz Violinist, Dies Suddenly at 62
  21. ^ Morto Pierre Milza, storico francese attento all'Italia e biografo del Duce (in Italian)
  22. ^ Gernet Jacques (in French)
  23. ^ L'auteur et plasticien Yvon Taillandier est mort (in French)
  24. ^ Hommage à André S. Labarthe (in French)
  25. ^ Francis Piasecki est mort à 66 ans (in French)
  26. ^ Décès de Jean Jolivet (in French)
  27. ^ Décès de Michel Raynaud Archived 2018-04-18 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
  28. ^ L’athlète olympique Guy Cury est décédé (in French)
  29. ^ La comédienne Geneviève Fontanel est morte (in French)
  30. ^ ‘He saved lives’: Arnaud Beltrame, police officer who traded places with a hostage, to be honored by France
  31. ^ Stéphane Audran Dies: ‘Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie’, ‘Babette’s Feast’ Star Was 85
  32. ^ Luc Jalabert, ex-directeur des arènes d’Arles et figure de la tauromachie, est mort à 66 ans (in French)
  33. ^ Mort de Clément Rosset, philosophe du tragique et de la joie (in French)
  34. ^ Mort de Françoise Adret, directrice historique du Ballet de l’Opéra (in French)
  35. ^ Paul Sinibaldi, ancienne star du Stade de Reims, est mort (in French)
  36. ^ "Mademoiselle" Irma Rapuzzi s'en est allée à 108 ans (in French)
  37. ^ Mort de l’archéologue Jacques Tixier (in French)
  38. ^ Le chanteur Jacques Higelin est décédé (in French)
  39. ^ André Lerond, ancien capitaine de Lyon et de l'équipe de France, est mort (in French)
  40. ^ Mort du dessinateur F’murr, l’auteur de la BD « Génie des alpages » (in French)
  41. ^ Décès de Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, ancien résistant et figure discrète de la dynastie (in French)
  42. ^ Jean-Claude Malgoire, roy de la musique, est mort (in French)
  43. ^ Geneviève Claisse, figure de l’abstraction géométrique, est décédée (in French)
  44. ^ Décès de Lionel Lamy, ancien joueur du Stade Lavallois (in French)
  45. ^ Maubeuge : L’ancien maire Jean-Claude Decagny est décédé (in French)
  46. ^ Le monde de la littérature en deuil: Gérard Genette est décédé à l’âge de 87 ans Archived May 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine (in French)
  47. ^ Lucien Villa, ancien résistant audois, s'est éteint à 95 ans (in French)
  48. ^ Disparition de Jean-Claude Lamy (in French)(subscription required)
  49. ^ L'ancienne ministre Nicole Fontaine est décédée (in French)
  50. ^ Mort de Paulette Coquatrix, ancienne propriétaire de l'Olympia (in French)
  51. ^ L’industriel, patron de presse et ancien sénateur Serge Dassault est mort (in French)
  52. ^ Yves de Daruvar, French Resistance Hero of Hungarian Origin, Dies at 97
  53. ^ Le Mans Le maire Jean-Claude Boulard est décédé (in French)
  54. ^ Bishop René Pierre Louis Joseph Séjourné
  55. ^ Disparition d'André Desvages (in French)
  56. ^ Francoise Bonnot Dies: Oscar-Winning Editor & Costa-Gavras Regular Was 78
  57. ^ La mort de Marcel Hénaff, philosophe et anthropologue (in French)
  58. ^ Yvette Horner obituary
  59. ^ Bishop Paul John Marx, M.S.C.
  60. ^ Founding president of CMA CGM Group dies
  61. ^ Mort de François Corbier, figure du Club Dorothée (in French)
  62. ^ Penguily. L’ambassadeur Henri Froment-Meurice s’est éteint à 95 ans (in French)
  63. ^ L’un des créateurs essentiels du Lettrisme, Maurice Lemaître, est mort (in French)
  64. ^ Décès de Thérèse Kleindienst (prom. 1939) (in French)
  65. ^ Disparition d’Henri Martre (in French)
  66. ^ Le romancier et poète Georges-Emmanuel Clancier s'est éteint à 104 ans dans son sommeil (in French)
  67. ^ Disparition de François Budet : "il était un peu comme un grand frère" disent ses amis chanteurs (in French)
  68. ^ Claude Lanzmann Dies: Director Best Known For Holocaust Documentary ‘Shoah’ Was 92
  69. ^ L’écrivain et biographe Gerald Messadié est mort (in French)
  70. ^ Bordeaux : décès de l'écrivain Michel Suffran (in French)
  71. ^ Décès du cardinal français Jean-Louis Tauran (in French)
  72. ^ Morto a Parigi il principe Michele di Borbone Parma Archived 2018-07-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
  73. ^ L'ancien député de l'Ariège Alain Fauré est décédé (in French)
  74. ^ "BD : l'auteur Frank Giroud (Le Décalogue) est mort à 62 ans". Le Progres. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  75. ^ Claude Seignolle, l'insaisissable centenaire (in French)
  76. ^ Madeleine Kamman, 87, Who Gave Americans a Taste of France, Dies
  77. ^ Mgr Pierre Pican, évêque émérite de Bayeux-Lisieux, est décédé (in French)
  78. ^ Guy Fallot (in French)
  79. ^ Armand De Las Cuevas dies aged 50
  80. ^ Charente-Maritime : l’ancien sénateur Josy Moinet est décédé à 88 ans (in French)
  81. ^ Arsène Tchakarian: French Resistance fighter dies aged 101
  82. ^ Décès de la pianiste Marie-Françoise Bucquet (in French)
  83. ^ Former FFR president Pierre Camou dies aged 72
  84. ^ Entrée au Ciel de Monseigneur François Garnier (in French)
  85. ^ Décès d'Edmond Haan (in French)
  86. ^ Rosa Bouglione – Reine du Cirque (in French)
  87. ^ Marie Thérèse Bourquin (in French)
  88. ^ Le grand résistant Georges Loinger, né à Strasbourg, s’est éteint à l’âge de 108 ans (in French)
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