2004 in France
Events from the year 2004 in France
Incumbents
Events
3 January – Flash Airlines Flight 604 headed for Cairo crashes into the Red Sea . All 148 people on board are killed, of whom more than 120 were French tourists.
30 January – Former prime minister and current mayor of Bordeaux , Alain Juppe , is convicted of a party funding scam in the 1980s and early 1990s.
31 January – Air France and British Airways cancel five upcoming US flights to Washington, D.C., and Miami , Florida, amid fears of Al-Qaida .
10 February – The French National Assembly votes to pass a law banning religious items and clothing from schools.[ 1]
20 February – The insecticide Regent (fipronil ), from BASF , is banned in France for its implication in pollinator decline .
1 March – French troops are deployed to Haiti .
21–28 March – Regional elections held, in which the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin suffers a stunning and unprecedented defeat.[ 1]
5 April – Elizabeth II , Queen of the United Kingdom, begins a state visit to France in honour of the centennial of the Entente Cordiale . The following day, she addresses the French Senate.
23 April – The last coal mine in France closes, La Houve near Creutzwald , ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.[ 2]
23 May – A section of the ceiling in Terminal 2E at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport collapses, claiming at least 6 lives.
27 May – Peugeot launches the 407 range of sedans, estates and coupes. It replaces the successful 406 .
5 June – Noël Mamère , the mayor of Bègles , conducts a marriage ceremony for two men, even though same-sex marriage in France has not yet been legalised.
8 June – The pickled heart of Louis XVII of France is buried in the royal crypt at Saint-Denis.
13 June – European Parliament election in France.
July – France released five of six suspects after their repatriation from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp .
26 September – Senate election held.
6 November – Clash between the armed forces of Côte d'Ivoire and French peacekeepers takes place (see: 2004 Ivorian-French violence ).
14 December – The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the river Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, is opened by President Jacques Chirac
26 December – 95 French people are among thousands of people killed and 189 seriously injured by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami .
Arts and literature
Sport
Deaths
January to March
3 January – Pierre Flamion , soccer player and manager (born 1924).
8 January – Franck Ténot , press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic (born 1925).
15 January
22 January – Ticky Holgado , actor (born 1944).
13 February – François Tavenas , academic in Canada (born 1942).
18 February – Jean Rouch , filmmaker and anthropologist (born 1917).
21 February – Alex Métayer , comedian.
25 February – Jacques Georges , soccer administrator (born 1916).
4 March – Claude Nougaro , singer and songwriter (born 1929).
13 March – René Laloux , animator and film director (born 1929).
28 March – Robert Merle , novelist (born 1908).
April to June
25 April – Jacques Rouxel , animator (born 1931).
28 April – Patrick Berhault , mountain climber.
April – Daniel Bernard , diplomat (born 1941).
1 May Jean-Jacques Laffont , economist (born 1947).
2 May – Paul Guimard , writer (born 1921).
28 May – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier , photographer (born 1921).
29 May – Gérard de Sède , author (born 1921).
31 May – Étienne Roda-Gil , songwriter and screenwriter (born 1941).
10 June – Antoine Argoud , twice attempted to assassinate Charles de Gaulle (born 1914).
11 June – Michel Roche , equestrian (born 1939).
18 June – André Gillois , writer and radio pioneer (born 1902).
July to September
9 July – Jean Lefebvre , actor (born 1919).
17 July – Lucien Leduc , soccer player and manager (born 1918).
18 July – Émile Peynaud , oenologist and researcher (born 1912).
24 July – Claude Ballif , composer (born 1924).
28 July – Bernard Saint-Hillier , General (born 1911).
3 August – Henri Cartier-Bresson , photographer (born 1908).
4 August – Cécile Guillame , first woman who engraved French postal stamps (born 1933).
9 August – Robert Lecourt , jurist, fourth President of the European Court of Justice (born 1908).
17 August – Gérard Souzay , baritone (born 1918).
20 August – Amelie Delagrange , murder victim (born 1982).
29 August – Jean-Louis Nicot , Air Force officer involved in the Algiers putsch (born 1911).
8 September – Raymond Marcellin , politician (born 1914).
9 September – Jean-Daniel Pollet , film director and screenwriter (born 1936).
24 September – Françoise Sagan , playwright, novelist and screenwriter (born 1935).
25 September – Alain Glavieux , professor in electrical engineering .
29 September – Richard Sainct , Rally Raid Motorcycle rider (born 1970).
October to December
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