2004 in France

none 2004 thumb|alt=Yasser Arafat|Yasser Arafat June 2022 Events from the year 2004 in France. Incumbents President – Jacques Chirac 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 Juppé, 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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/656 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 656–660 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. 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.John Lichfield The end of French coal The Independent London 2004-04-24 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 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 31 October – Denoël in Paris publishes Irène Némirovsky's Suite française, consisting of two novellas, 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 – Tour de France begins. 4 July – French Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher of Germany. 25 July – Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States. Births 4 January – Victor Wembanyama, basketball player 2 June – Leïla Lacan, basketball player 2 December – Aidan Chollet, snowboarder 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 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 (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 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 2004 France France Category:2000s in France Category:Years of the 21st century in France