2000 in France
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See also:
1999 in France
1999 in France
See also:1998 in France,other events of 1999,2000 in France.----Events from the year 1999 in France.-Events:*3 March - ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty by the French National Assembly....

,
other events of 2000,
2001 in France
2001 in France
See also:2000 in France,other events of 2001,2002 in France.----Events from the year 2001 in France.-Events:*March - The Renault Vel Satis is launched at the Geneva Motor Show.*8 March - Cantonales Elections held....

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Events from the year 2000 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

The year 2000 is in particular remembered in France by a media campaign on the conditions of detention of prisoners. A parliament
Parliament of France
The French Parliament is the bicameral legislature of the French Republic, consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly . Each assembly conducts legislative sessions at a separate location in Paris: the Palais du Luxembourg for the Senate, the Palais Bourbon for the National Assembly.Each...

ary 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
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995...

 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
    Working Time Directive
    The Working Time Directive is a European Union Directive, which creates the right for EU workers to a minimum number of holidays each year, paid breaks, and rest of at least 11 hours in any 24 hours; restricts excessive night work; and makes a default right to work no more than 48 hours per week....

    ).
  • June - National Assembly votes in favour of changing the Presidential term to five years.
  • 25 July - Air France Flight 4590
    Air France Flight 4590
    Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight operated by Air France which was scheduled to run from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. On 2000, it crashed in Gonesse, France. All one hundred passengers and nine crew...

     Concorde
    Concorde
    Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport . It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation...

     crashed outside Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

     killing all 109 passengers and crew.
  • 24 September - Constitutional Referendum
    French constitutional referendum, 2000
    A constitutional referendum was held in France on 24 September 2000. The proposals would result in the mandate of the President being reduced from seven years to five years in line with terms in office in other European countries...

     is held on whether the presidential mandate should be reduced from seven to five years.
  • 4 November - a demonstration is held in Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

     for the abolition of prisons.

Sport

  • 1 July - Tour de France
    2000 Tour de France
    The 2000 Tour de France was the 87th Tour de France, and took place from July 1 to July 23, 2000. It was won by American cyclist Lance Armstrong. The Tour started with an individual time trial in Futuroscope and ended traditionally in Paris. The distance travelled was 3662.5 km...

     begins.
  • 2 July — France wins the UEFA European Football Championship
    UEFA European Football Championship
    The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...

    .
  • 2 July - French Grand Prix
    2000 French Grand Prix
    The 2000 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Magny-Cours on 2 July 2000. It was the ninth round of the 2000 Formula One season.- Report :...

     won by David Coulthard
    David Coulthard
    David Marshall Coulthard, MBE, , sometimes known as DC, is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland.Coulthard, who was born in Dumfries and raised nearby in Twynholm, made his Formula One debut in 1994 and won 13 Grands Prix in a career spanning 15 seasons...

     of the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    .
  • 23 July - Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong
    Lance Armstrong
    Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research and support...

     of the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    .

January to March

  • 1 January - Jean-Claude Izzo
    Jean-Claude Izzo
    Jean-Claude Izzo was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three neo-noir crime novels Total Chaos, Chourmo, and Solea , featuring as protagonist ex-cop Fabio Montale, and set in the author's native city of...

    , poet, playwright, screenwriter and novelist (b.1945
    1945 in France
    See also:1944 in France,other events of 1945,1946 in France.----Events from the year 1945 in France.-Events:*6 February - Writer Robert Brasillach executed for collaboration with the Germans....

    ).
  • 2 January - Henri René Guieu
    Henri René Guieu
    Henri René Guieu was a French science fiction writer who published primarily with the pseudonym Jimmy Guieu. He occasionally used other pseudonyms as well, including Claude Vauzière for a young adult series, Jimmy G...

    , science fiction
    Science fiction
    Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     (b.1926
    1926 in France
    See also:1925 in France,other events of 1926,1927 in France.----Events from the year 1926 in France.-Events:*9 May - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots....

    ).
  • 3 February - Pierre Plantard
    Pierre Plantard
    Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus.-Surname:Pierre...

    , draughtsman
    Technical drawing
    Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed.Drafting is the language of industry....

    , principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion
    Priory of Sion
    The Prieuré de Sion, translated from French as Priory of Sion, is a name given to multiple groups, both real and fictitious. The most notorious is a fringe fraternal organisation, founded and dissolved in France in 1956 by Pierre Plantard...

     hoax
    Hoax
    A hoax is a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, or rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences or April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes.-Definition:The British...

     (b.1920
    1920 in France
    See also:1919 in France,other events of 1920,1921 in France.----Events from the year 1920 in France.-Events:At the opening of the year 1920, France was in a stronger position than she had been in for several generations...

    ).
  • 5 February - Claude Autant-Lara
    Claude Autant-Lara
    Claude Autant-Lara , was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament .-Biography:...

    , film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     and later MEP
    Member of the European Parliament
    A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

     (b.1901
    1901 in France
    See also:1900 in France,other events of 1901,1902 in France.----Events from the year 1901 in France.-Arts and literature:*17 March - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.-Sport:...

    ).
  • 11 February - Jacqueline Auriol
    Jacqueline Auriol
    Jacqueline Auriol was a French aviatrix who set several world speed records.-Biography:...

    , aviatrix who set several world speed records (b.1917
    1917 in France
    See also:1916 in France,other events of 1917,1918 in France.----Events from the year 1917 in France.-Events:*9 April - Battle of Arras, a British offensive, begins....

    ).
  • 11 February - Roger Vadim
    Roger Vadim
    Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, director, and producer as well as a journalist, author and actor, who launched Brigitte Bardot's career in the film And God Created Woman.-Early life:...

    , film director (b.1928
    1928 in France
    See also:1927 in France,other events of 1928,1929 in France.----Events from the year 1928 in France.-Events:*22 April - Legislative Election held.*29 April - Legislative Election held....

    ).
  • 5 March - Lolo Ferrari
    Lolo Ferrari
    Lolo Ferrari, born Eve Valois , was a French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer billed as "the woman with the largest breasts in the world" though their size was artificially achieved....

    , dancer, porn star, actress, and singer (b.1963
    1963 in France
    See also:1962 in France,other events of 1963,1964 in France.----Events from the year 1963 in France.-Events:*22 January - Élysée Treaty signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer....

    ).

April to June

  • 11 April - Pierre Ghestem
    Pierre Ghestem
    Pierre Ghestem was a French bridge and checkers player. In 1947 he became the world champion in checkers...

    , bridge
    Contract bridge
    Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

     and checkers
    International draughts
    International draughts is a board game, one of the variants of draughts. It is played on a 10×10 board with alternatingly dark and light squares, of which only the 50 dark ones are used. There are two players on opposite sides, with 20 pieces each, light for one player and dark for the other...

     player (b.1922
    1922 in France
    See also:1921 in France,other events of 1922,1923 in France.----Events from the year 1922 in France.-Events:The year 1922 was signalized at its opening by the conference of Cannes, between France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, which met to consider the situation created by Germany's declaration...

    ).
  • 20 May - Jean Pierre Rampal, flautist (b.1922
    1922 in France
    See also:1921 in France,other events of 1922,1923 in France.----Events from the year 1922 in France.-Events:The year 1922 was signalized at its opening by the conference of Cannes, between France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, which met to consider the situation created by Germany's declaration...

    ).
  • 6 June - Frédéric Dard
    Frédéric Dard
    Frédéric Dard was a French writer and author of the San-Antonio series..-Biography:...

    , writer (b.1921
    1921 in France
    See also:1920 in France,other events of 1921,1922 in France.----Events from the year 1921 in France.-Events:Before touching on the principal events which took place in France in the course of the year 1921, it is necessary to recall one or two of the outstanding facts of 1920 in France.The most...

    ).
  • 22 June - Philippe Chatrier
    Philippe Chatrier
    Philippe Chatrier was a French tennis player. After his playing career ended, he became a journalist, and was then involved in sports administration...

    , tennis player (b.1926
    1926 in France
    See also:1925 in France,other events of 1926,1927 in France.----Events from the year 1926 in France.-Events:*9 May - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots....

    ).
  • 25 June - Pascal Themanlys
    Pascal Themanlys
    Pascal Themanlys was a French poet, Zionist, and Kabbalist. His books on Jewish mysticism have been published in French, English and Hebrew....

    , poet, zionist
    Zionism
    Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...

    , and Kabbalist
    Kabbalah
    Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...

     (b.1909
    1909 in France
    See also:1908 in France,other events of 1909,1910 in France.----Events from the year 1909 in France.-Events:*20 February - The Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian Filippo Marinetti, is published in Le Figaro....

    ).
  • 27 June - Pierre Pflimlin
    Pierre Pflimlin
    Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.-Life:...

    , politician and Prime Minister (b.1907
    1907 in France
    See also:1906 in France,other events of 1907,1908 in France.----Events from the year 1907 in France.-Events:*February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco....

    ).

July to September

  • 3 July - André Guinier
    André Guinier
    André Guinier was a French physicist who did important work in the field of X-ray diffraction and solid-state physics. He worked at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, then taught at the University of Paris and later at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay...

    , physicist (b.1911
    1911 in France
    See also:1910 in France,other events of 1911,1912 in France.----Events from the year 1911 in France.-Events:*1 July - Agadir Crisis, sparked by deployment of German gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir....

    ).
  • 17 July - Pascale Audret
    Pascale Audret
    Pascale Audret was a French actress who was most active during the 1950s through to the 1960s.-Career:...

    , actress (b.1936
    1936 in France
    See also:1935 in France,other events of 1936,1937 in France.----Events from the year 1936 in France.-Events:*25 March - Second London Naval Treaty is signed by the governments of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America....

    ).
  • 18 July - René Chocat
    René Chocat
    René Chocat was a French basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.In London 1948 he was part of the French basketball team, which won the silver medal....

    , basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player (b.1920
    1920 in France
    See also:1919 in France,other events of 1920,1921 in France.----Events from the year 1920 in France.-Events:At the opening of the year 1920, France was in a stronger position than she had been in for several generations...

    ).
  • 22 July - Claude Sautet
    Claude Sautet
    Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer...

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

     and film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     (b.1924
    1924 in France
    See also:1923 in France,other events of 1924,1925 in France.----Events from the year 1924 in France.-Events:*29 March - Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré starts....

    ).
  • 14 August - Alain Fournier
    Alain Fournier
    Alain Fournier was a computer graphics researcher.- Biography :Alain Fournier was born on November 5, 1943 in Lyon, France. He was married twice, first to Beverly Bickle and later to Adrienne Drobnies, with whom he had one daughter, Ariel.Fournier's early training was in chemistry, culminating in...

    , computer graphics
    Computer graphics
    Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....

     researcher (b.1943
    1943 in France
    See also:1942 in France,other events of 1943,1944 in France.----Events from the year 1943 in France.-Events:*22 January - Battle of Marseille begins...

    ).
  • 26 August - Odette Joyeux
    Odette Joyeux
    Odette Joyeux was a French actress, playwright and novelist. She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 1931. Her first notable film was Marc Allegret's Entrée des artistes...

    , actress and writer (b.1914
    1914 in France
    See also:1913 in France,other events of 1914,1915 in France.----Events from the year 1914 in France.-Events:*16 March - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage...

    ).
  • 20 September - Jeanloup Sieff
    Jeanloup Sieff
    Jeanloup Sieff was a fashion photographer.Sieff was born in Paris to parents of Polish origin. His interest in photography was first piqued when he received a Photax plastic camera as a birthday gift for his fourteenth birthday...

    , photographer (b.1933
    1933 in France
    See also:1932 in France,other events of 1933,1934 in France.----Events from the year 1933 in France.-Events:*30 January - Édouard Daladier forms a government in France....

    ).

October to December

  • 10 November - Jacques Chaban-Delmas
    Jacques Chaban-Delmas
    Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. In addition, for almost half a century, he was Mayor of Bordeaux and a deputy for the Gironde département....

    , Gaullist
    Gaullism
    Gaullism is a French political ideology based on the thought and action of Resistance leader then president Charles de Gaulle.-Foreign policy:...

     politician and Prime Minister (b.1915
    1915 in France
    See also:1914 in France,other events of 1915,1916 in France.----Events from the year 1915 in France.-Events:*19 January - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.*9 May - Second Battle of Artois starts....

    ).
  • 10 November - Gérard Granel
    Gérard Granel
    Gérard Granel was a French philosopher and translator.- Life and work :Born in Paris, Granel attended the lycée Louis-le-Grand and the courses of Michel Alexandre, Jean Hyppolite and, later, of Louis Althusser and Jean Beaufret...

    , philosopher
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     and translator
    Translation
    Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

     (b.1930
    1930 in France
    See also:1929 in France,other events of 1930,1931 in France.----Events from the year 1930 in France.-Events:*10 February - Yen Bai mutiny takes place, an uprising by Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army's garrison in Yen Bai....

    ).
  • 17 November - Louis Néel, physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

    , the Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     for Physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

     in 1970 (b.1904
    1904 in France
    See also:1903 in France,other events of 1904,1905 in France.----Events from the year 1904 in France.-Events:*8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.-Sport:...

    ).
  • 22 November - Théodore Monod
    Théodore Monod
    Théodore André Monod was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar.-Exploration:...

    , naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar (b.1902
    1902 in France
    See also:1901 in France,other events of 1902,1903 in France.----Events from the year 1902 in France.-Events:*13 April - A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, by Leon Serpollet.*27 April - Legislative Election held....

    ).
  • 25 November - Raymond Janot
    Raymond Janot
    Raymond Janot was a French politician who played a significant role in the writing of the 1958 Constitution of France....

    , politician.
  • 29 November - Bernard Pertuiset
    Bernard Pertuiset
    Bernard Pertuiset, MD was a French neurosurgeon, born in Paris on 28 October 1920.He spent four years of internship in a service of neurology at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital with T. Alajouanine. He got his medical diploma in 1949, writing a thesis on cranioplasty...

    , neurosurgeon (b.1920
    1920 in France
    See also:1919 in France,other events of 1920,1921 in France.----Events from the year 1920 in France.-Events:At the opening of the year 1920, France was in a stronger position than she had been in for several generations...

    ).
  • 15 December - Jacques Goddet
    Jacques Goddet
    Jacques Goddet was a French sports journalist and director of the Tour de France from 1936 to 1986....

    , sports journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and Tour de France
    Tour de France
    The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...

     director (b.1905
    1905 in France
    See also:1904 in France,other events of 1905,1906 in France.----Events from the year 1905 in France.-Events:*31 March - German emperor William II asserts German equality with France in Morocco, triggering the Tangier or First Moroccan Crisis....

    ).
  • 28 December - Jacques Laurent
    Jacques Laurent
    Jacques Laurent or Jacques Laurent-Cély was a French writer and journalist.He belonged to the literary group of the Hussards, and is known as a prolific historical novelist, essay writer, and screenwriter under the nom de plume of Cecil Saint-Laurent...

    , writer and journalist (b.1919
    1919 in France
    See also:1918 in France,other events of 1919,1920 in France.----Events from the year 1919 in France.-Events:*April - Long-Berenger Oil Agreement is concluded between France and the United Kingdom over oil rights....

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Pierre Allain
    Pierre Allain
    Pierre Allain was a French alpinist who began climbing in the 1920s. In the 1930s he was joined by several others at Fontainebleau, where his group of "'Bleausards" developed a love of bouldering that went beyond simple training for the Alps. The famous , done in 1934, is a testament to their...

    , climber (b.1904
    1904 in France
    See also:1903 in France,other events of 1904,1905 in France.----Events from the year 1904 in France.-Events:*8 April - Entente cordiale, a series of agreements signed between the United Kingdom and France.-Sport:...

    ).
  • Pierre Gabaye
    Pierre Gabaye
    Pierre Gabaye was a French composer.His musical tuition began at age seven on the piano, and which led him to pursue a career as a pianist and composer in both the classical and jazz spheres. He studied the piano with Simone Plé-Caussade at the Conservatoire de Paris. He won the 1956 Prix de Rome,...

    , composer (b.1930
    1930 in France
    See also:1929 in France,other events of 1930,1931 in France.----Events from the year 1930 in France.-Events:*10 February - Yen Bai mutiny takes place, an uprising by Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army's garrison in Yen Bai....

    ).
  • Antoine Guillaumont
    Antoine Guillaumont
    Antoine Guillaumont was a French archaeologist and Syriac scholar . He held positions notably at the École pratique des hautes études and at the Collège de France and was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His archaeological writings concern the site of Kellia in Lower...

    , archaeologist and Syriac scholar (b.1915
    1915 in France
    See also:1914 in France,other events of 1915,1916 in France.----Events from the year 1915 in France.-Events:*19 January - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.*9 May - Second Battle of Artois starts....

    ).
  • Jean Vallette d'Osia
    Jean Vallette d'Osia
    Jean Vallette d'Osia was a French officer best known for his action in the French Resistance during World War II in Haute-Savoie, notably supervising the liberation of Lyon....

    , Lieutenant General (b.1898
    1898 in France
    See also:1897 in France,other events of 1898,1899 in France.----Events from the year 1898 in France.-Events:*13 January - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair....

    ).
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