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See also: 1999 in France, other events of 2000, 2001 in France.

Events from the year 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.

Events

• 1 February - a 35 hour working week imposed on companies of over 20 employees (see also Working Time Directive).
• June - National Assembly votes in favour of changing the Presidential term to five years.^[1]
• 25 July - Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crashed outside Paris killing all 109 passengers and crew.^[1]
• 24 September - Constitutional Referendum is held on whether the presidential mandate should be reduced from seven to five years.
• 4 November - a demonstration is held in Paris for the abolition of prisons.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 1 July - Tour de France begins.
• 2 July — France wins the UEFA European Football Championship.
• 2 July - French Grand Prix won by David Coulthard of the United Kingdom.
• 23 July - Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States.

Births

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, aviatrix who set several world speed records (b.1917).
• 11 February - Roger Vadim, film director (b.1928).
• 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).

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).
• 14 August - Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher (b.1943).
• 26 August - Odette Joyeux, actress and writer (b.1914).
• 20 September - Jeanloup Sieff, photographer (b.1933).

October to December

• 10 November - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (b.1915).
• 10 November - Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator (b.1930).
• 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).
• 28 December - Jacques Laurent, writer and journalist (b.1919).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Allain, climber (b.1904).
• Pierre Gabaye, composer (b.1930).
• Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar (b.1915).
• Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General (b.1898).

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