The following lists events that happened during 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.
Incumbents President: Jacques Chirac Prime Minister: Lionel Jospin
Events February 1 February – a 35-hour working week imposed on companies of over 20 employees (see also Working Time Directive).
June June – National Assembly votes in favour of changing the Presidential term to five years.
July 2 July – France wins the UEFA European Football Championship. 25 July – Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crashed outside Paris killing all 109 passengers and crew.
September 24 September – Constitutional Referendum is held on whether the presidential mandate should be reduced from seven to five years.
November 4 November – a demonstration is held in Paris for the abolition of prisons.
Undated Agora Fidelio – French alternative rock band is active, until 2012.
Births 16 February – Amine Gouiri, footballer 6 April – Maxence Lacroix, footballer 3 August – Léo Rispal, singer 8 August – Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
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, aviator who set several world speed records (b. 1917) Roger Vadim, film director (b. 1928) 28 February – Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General (b. 1898) 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) 28 June – Sid Ahmed Rezala, French serial killer (b. 1979)
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) 10 August – Paul Badré, aircraft pilot and engineer (b. 1906) 14 August – Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher (b. 1943) 25 August – Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar (b. 1915) 26 August – Odette Joyeux, actress and writer (b. 1914) 20 September – Jeanloup Sieff, photographer (b. 1933)
October to December 22 October –Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura, organist, music teacher, composer and music theorist (b. 1912).Suzanne Haik-Vantura 10 November Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (b. 1915) Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator (b. 1930) 12 November – Franck Pourcel, composer, arranger and conductor of popular music and classical music (b. 1913) 16 November – Ahmet Kaya, Turkish–Kurdish folk singer, he was living in France since 1999 until his death. (b. 1957) 17 November – Louis 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) 19 December – Michel Dens, baritone (b. 1911) 19 December – Pierre Allain, climber (b. 1904) 28 December – Jacques Laurent, writer and journalist (b. 1919)
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