2001 In France

The following lists 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 are held.
*11 March – Cantonales Elections are held.
*11 March – Municipal Elections are held.
*18 March – Municipal Elections are 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.
*September – Citroën launches the all-new C3 hatchback at the Frankfurt Motor Show as a replacement for the outdated Saxo.
*15 September – Santé Diabète organization is created in Grenoble.
*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.

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

* 26 January – Kenza Fortas, actress
* 24 March – William Saliba, footballer
* 5 April – Thylane Blondeau, model and the daughter of soccer player Patrick Blondeau

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).
** Michel Marcel Navratil, last French survivor and male survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1908)
*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).
*6 May – René Bondoux, fencer (b. 1905)
*14 May – Paul Bénichou, writer, critic and literary historian (b. 1908).
*15 May
**Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (b. 1902).
**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

*1 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

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

See also

* 2001 in French television
* List of French films of 2001

References

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