2000 in France
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
Events
February
- 1 February – a 35-hour working week imposed on companies of over 20 employees.
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
- 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
- 2 January – Henri René Guieu, science fiction writer
- 3 February – Pierre Plantard, draughtsman, principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax
- 5 February – Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP
- 11 February
- *Jacqueline Auriol, aviator who set several world speed records
- *Roger Vadim, film director
- 5 March – Lolo Ferrari, dancer, porn star, actress, and singer
April to June
- 11 April – Pierre Ghestem, bridge and checkers player
- 20 May – Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist
- 6 June – Frédéric Dard, writer
- 22 June – Philippe Chatrier, tennis player
- 25 June – Pascal Themanlys, poet, Zionist, and Kabbalist
- 27 June – Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister
- 28 June – Sid Ahmed Rezala, French serial killer
July to September
- 3 July – André Guinier, physicist
- 17 July – Pascale Audret, actress
- 18 July – René Chocat, basketball player
- 22 July – Claude Sautet, author and film director
- 10 August – Paul Badré, aircraft pilot and engineer
- 14 August – Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher
- 26 August – Odette Joyeux, actress and writer
- 20 September – Jeanloup Sieff, photographer
October to December
- 10 November
- *Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister
- *Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator
- 12 November – Franck Pourcel, composer, arranger and conductor of popular music and classical music
- 16 November – Ahmet Kaya, Turkish–Kurdish folk singer, he was living in France since 1999 until his death.
- 17 November – Louis Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970
- 22 November – Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar
- 25 November – Raymond Janot, politician
- 29 November – Bernard Pertuiset, neurosurgeon
- 15 December – Jacques Goddet, sports journalist and Tour de France director
- 28 December – Jacques Laurent, writer and journalist
Full date unknown
- Pierre Allain, climber
- Pierre Gabaye, composer
- Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar
- Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General