2018 in France

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

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Incumbents

President – Emmanuel Macron
Prime Minister – Édouard Philippe

Events

January

1 January - Corsica becomes a single territorial collectivity
4 January - Vésuve de Brekka arrives in China as a diplomatic gift to Xi Jinping from President Macron.
17 January - The government decides to abandon the Grand Ouest airport project in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
19 January - Beginning of the demonstrations in Mayotte
22 January - Wolfgang Schäuble, President of the Bundestag, addresses the National Assembly to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty.
24 January - Water rising in Paris causes a Seine flood alert.
28 January - Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency and Territoire de Belfort's 1st constituency by-elections, 2018.
28 January - Beginning of the Daval affair, French criminal case concerning the murder of Alexia Daval, whose body was found on October 30, 2017

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.

March

2 March -
* 43rd César Awards.
* The Embassy of France in Burkina Faso is targeted during the 2018 Ouagadougou attacks.
4 March - 2018 French Guiana's 2nd constituency by-election.
11 March - 2018 Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency by-election.
18 March - Loiret's 4th constituency and Mayotte's 1st constituency by-elections, 2018.
23 March -
* Carcassonne and Trèbes attack.
* Murder of Mireille Knoll.
28 March -
* National homage to the lieutenant-colonel Arnaud Beltrame
* White March in memory of Mireille Knoll

April

3 April - Beginning of a period of intermittent strikes at the French National Railway Company until the end of June to protest against the scheduled end of the railway workers' status
8 April - 2018 French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election.
15 April - 2018 Wallis and Futuna's 1st constituency by-election.
24 April - Tropical Cyclone Fakir touch Reunion.

May

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" 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

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.
28 August - Nicolas Hulot resigns as Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition to protest against the government's ecological policy.

September

4 September -
*Laura Flessel-Colovic resigns as Minister of Sports for personal reasons.
*Philippe government reshuffle : François de Rugy becomes Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, replacing Nicolas Hulot, and Roxana Maracineanu replaces Laura Flessel at the Ministry of Sports.
12 September - Richard Ferrand is elected President of the National Assembly.
16 September - Frédérique Dumas, member of the French National Assembly for Hauts-de-Seine's 13th constituency, leaves both the party La République En Marche! and the La République En Marche group at the French National Assembly.
23 September - Réunion's 7th constituency by-elections, 2018 following political differences.
25 September - Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls announces his candidacy for mayor of Barcelona in the framework of the municipal elections of Spain in 2019. He announces his resignation from his mandate as deputy for the 1st constituency of Essonne.
27 September - Barbara Cassin receives the CNRS Gold medal.

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.
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, which kill 15 people. 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

4 November - 2018 New Caledonian independence referendum
5 November — collapse of buildings, rue d'Aubagne in Marseille
17 November - Beginning of the Gilets jaunes protests.
18 November - 2018 Essonne's 1st constituency by-election.

December

11 December - 2018 Strasbourg attack.
15 December - Vaimalama Chaves is elected Miss France 2019.
29 December - Joachim Son-Forget, member of the French National Assembly for Sixth constituency for French residents overseas, leaves both the party La République En Marche! and the La République En Marche group at the French National Assembly.

Deaths

January

4 January –
* Lyli Herse, racing cyclist
*, writer
7 January – France Gall, singer
9 January – Jean-Marc Mazzonetto, rugby union player
10 January –
* Étienne Bally, sprinter
* Pierre Grillet, footballer
* Philippe Marchand, politician
12 January –
* Pierre Pincemaille, organist
* Jean-Louis Koszul, mathematician
17 January –
* Guy Dupré, writer and publisher
*Bénédicte Pesle, arts patron
* Claude Prouvoyeur, politician
19 January –
*Alain Devaquet, politician
*Marcel Frémiot, composer and musicologist
20 January – Paul Bocuse, chef
21 January –
* Yves Afonso, actor
* Suzanne Citron, historian
* Philippe Gondet, footballer
24 January – Renaud Gagneux, composer
25 January – Arnaud Giovaninetti, actor
28 January – Raymond Lory, politician

February

1 February –
*André Baudry, magazine editor
*Édouard Ferrand, politician
5 February – Mathieu Riboulet, writer and film director
6 February – Bernard Darmet, racing cyclist
9 February –
*Antoine Culioli, linguist
*Bernard Koura, painter
12 February – Françoise Xenakis, writer
13 February – Joseph Bonnel, footballer
15 February –
*Jacques Hébert, politician
*Daniel Vernet, journalist and author
18 February –
*Victor Franco, journalist
*Didier Lockwood, jazz violinist
20 February – Arnaud Geyre, racing cyclist
27 February –
* Henri Leonetti, footballer
* Jacqueline Vaudecrane, figure skater
28 February – Pierre Milza, historian

March

3 March –
*Jacques Gernet, sinologist
*Yvon Taillandier, artist
5 March – André S. Labarthe, actor, film producer and director
6 March – Francis Piasecki, footballer
8 March – Jean Jolivet, philosopher
10 March –
*Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer, founder of the house of Givenchy
*Michel Raynaud, mathematician
16 March – Guy Cury, hurdler
17 March – Geneviève Fontanel, actress
19 March – Jean Michel Larrasket, engineer
24 March – Arnaud Beltrame, gendarme,
27 March –
*Stéphane Audran, actress
*Luc Jalabert, rejoneador
28 March – Clément Rosset, philosopher and writer

April

1 April –
*Françoise Adret, ballerina and choreographer
*Michel Sénéchal, tenor
2 April – Paul Sinibaldi, footballer
3 April –
*Irma Rapuzzi, politician
*Jacques Tixier, archaeologist and prehistorian
6 April – Jacques Higelin, pop singer
8 April – André Lerond, footballer
10 April – Richard Peyzaret, better known by his pen name F'Murr, comics artist
11 April – Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, politician and journalist
13 April – André Maman, politician and philologist
14 April – Jean-Claude Malgoire, conductor
18 April – Jean Flori, medieval historian
19 April –
* Joël Santoni, film director and screenwriter
* Agnès-Marie Valois, nun and World War II nurse
21 April – Firmin Le Bourhis, crime fiction writer
24 April – Henri Michel, footballer
26 April –
* Jean Duprat, politician
* Pierre Plateau, Roman Catholic prelate
29 April – Rose Laurens, singer-songwriter
30 April – Geneviève Claisse, abstract painter

May

4 May –
*Lionel Lamy, footballer
*André Le Dissez, cyclist
6 May – Jean-Claude Decagny, politician
11 May – Gérard Genette, literary theorist
13 May – Lucien Villa, politician
15 May – Jean-Claude Lamy, journalist
17 May – Nicole Fontaine, lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament
28 May
*Paulette Coquatrix, costume designer
*Serge Dassault, businessman and politician
*Yves de Daruvar, military officer and politician

June

1 June –
*Jean-Claude Boulard, politician,
*René Séjourné, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint-Flour
2 June – André Desvages, racing cyclist
9 June – Françoise Bonnot, film editor, Oscar winner 1970 for Z
11 June –
*Marcel Hénaff, philosopher and anthropologist
*Yvette Horner, accordionist
19 June – Paul John Marx, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea)
24 June – Jacques Saadé, shipping executive

July

1 July – François Corbier, songwriter and television presenter
2 July –
*Henri Froment-Meurice, diplomat
*Maurice Lemaître, artist
3 July –
*Thérèse Kleindienst, librarian
*Henri Martre, telecommunications engineer
4 July – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, poet and novelist
5 July –
*François Budet, singer-songwriter, novelist, and poet
*Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker
*Gerald Messadié, scientific journalist, historian, essayist and novelist
*Michel Suffran, novelist
*Jean-Louis Tauran, Roman Catholic cardinal
7 July – Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, royal, soldier and race car driver
12 July – Alain Fauré, politician
13 July –
* Frank Giroud, comics writer
* Luc Rosenzweig, journalist and non-fiction writer
* Claude Seignolle, writer
16 July – Madeleine Kamman, chef and restaurateur
23 July – Pierre Pican, bishop
25 July – Guy Fallot, cellist

August

2 August – Armand de Las Cuevas, racing cyclist
4 August –
*Josy Moinet, politician, Senator for Charente-Maritime
*Arsène Tchakarian, Armenian-born French resistance fighter
15 August –
*Marie-Françoise Bucquet, pianist and teacher
*Pierre Camou, rugby union administrator
*François Garnier, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cambrai
*Edmond Haan, footballer
26 August – Rosa Bouglione, circus performer
27 August – Mirka Mora, visual artist

September

1 September – Jean Seitlinger, politician
5 September – François Flohic, naval officer
6 September –
*Philippe Eidel, music producer
*Gilbert Lazard, linguist and Iranologist
7 September – Micheline Rozan, stage and film producer
10 September –
*Michel Bonnevie, basketball player
*Paul Virilio, urbanist
10 September –
*Marceline Loridan-Ivens, writer and film director
*Jean Piat, actor and writer
21 September – Sophie Body-Gendrot, political scientist, criminologist and sociologist
29 September – Pascale Casanova, literary critic
30 September – René Pétillon, cartoonist and comics artist

December

December 5 – Marie-Thérèse Bourquin, French lawyer and first female member of the Belgian council estate
December 28 – Georges Loinger, French resistance fighter