Editing 2004 in France

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Events from the year '''[[2004]] in [[France]]'''.

==Incumbents==
* [[President of France|President]] – [[Jacques Chirac]]
* [[Prime Minister of France|Prime Minister]] – [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]]

==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 [[French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools|law banning religious items]] and clothing from schools.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/656|url-access=registration|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/656 656–660]}}</ref>
*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 – [[2004 French regional elections|Regional elections]] held, in which the government of Prime Minister [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]] suffers a stunning and unprecedented defeat.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
*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.<ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Lichfield|title=The end of French coal|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|location=London|date=2004-04-24}}</ref>
*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 [[Peugeot 407|407]] range of sedans, estates and coupes. It replaces the successful [[Peugeot 406|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 – [[2004 European Parliament election in France|European Parliament election]] in France.
*July – France released five of six suspects after their repatriation from [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]].
*26 September – [[2004 French Senate election|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 (river)|Tarn]] in the [[Massif Central]] mountains, is opened by [[President of France|President]] [[Jacques Chirac]]
*26 December – 95 [[French people]] are among thousands of people killed and 189 seriously injured by the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|2004 Indian Ocean tsunami]].

==Arts and literature==
*31 October – Denoël in Paris publishes [[Irène Némirovsky]]'s ''[[Suite française (Némirovsky)|Suite française]]'', consisting of two [[novella]]s, ''Tempête en juin'' and ''Dolce'', written and set in 1940–1941, from a sequence left unfinished on the author's death in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] in 1942.

==Sport==
*3 July – [[2004 Tour de France|Tour de France]] begins.
*4 July – [[2004 French Grand Prix|French Grand Prix]] won by [[Michael Schumacher]] of Germany.
*25 July – Tour de France ends, won by [[Lance Armstrong]] of the United States.

==Deaths==

===January to March===
*3 January – [[Pierre Flamion]], soccer player and manager (born 1924).
*8 January – [[Franck Ténot]], press agent, [['Pataphysics|pataphysician]] and [[jazz]] critic (born 1925).
*15 January
**[[Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré]], priest and author (born 1908).
**[[André Barrais]], basketball player (born 1920).
*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)|Jacques Rouxel]], [[animator]] (born 1931).
*28 April – [[Patrick Berhault]], mountain climber.
*April – [[Daniel Bernard (ambassador)|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 [[engraving|engraved]] French [[postal stamp]]s (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]], [[Rallying|Rally]] Raid Motorcycle rider (born 1970).

===October to December===
*October – [[Jacques Noël]], fencer (born 1920).
*3 October – [[Jacques Benveniste]], immunologist (born 1935).
*8 October – [[Jacques Derrida]], philosopher (born 1930).
*22 October – [[Louis Bouyer]], priest and writer (born 1913).
*27 October
**[[Pierre Béarn]], writer (born 1902).
**[[Claude Helffer]], pianist (born 1922).
*26 November – [[Philippe de Broca]], film director (born 1933).
*31 December – [[Gérard Debreu]], economist and mathematician, won 1983 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics]] (born 1921).

==See also==
* [[2004 in French television]]
* [[List of French films of 2004]]

==References==
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[[Category:2000s in France]]