2001 in France
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See also: 2000 in France, other events of 2001, 2002 in France.
Events from the year 2001 in France.
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[edit] Events
8 March - Cantonales Elections held. 11 March - Cantonales Elections held. 11 March - Municipal Elections held. 18 March - Municipal Elections held. 21 September - The AZote Fertilisant chemical factory in Toulouse, explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2500.
[edit] Sport
15 April - Paris-Roubaix cycle race won by Servais Knaven of the Netherlands. 1 July - French Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher of Germany. 7 July - Tour de France begins. 29 July - Tour de France ends, won by Lance Armstrong of the United States.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to March
10 January - Jacques Marin, actor (b.1919). 21 January - Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (b.1913). 30 January - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (b.1911). 8 February - Raymond Polin, philosopher (b.1910). 18 February - Balthus, artist (b.1908). 19 February - Charles Trenet, singer and songwriter (b.1913). 4 March - Jean René Bazaine, painter, stained glass window designer and writer (b.1904).
[edit] April to June
10 April - Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, film director (b.1936). 19 April - André du Bouchet, poet (b.1924). 20 April - Maurice Lauré, creator of taxe sur la valeur ajoutée (TVA) (b.1917). 14 May - Paul Bénichou, writer, critic and literary historian (b.1908). 15 May - Jean-Philippe Lauer, architect and Egyptologist (b.1902). 15 May - Sacha Vierny, cinematographer (b.1919). 17 May - Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician (b.1928). 6 June - Marie Brémont, supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death (b.1886). 11 June - Pierre Eyt, Cardinal (b.1934). 13 June - Louis de Maigret, Military officer (b.1914). 15 June - Henri Alekan, cinematographer (b.1909). 18 June - René Dumont, agronomist, sociologist and environmental politician (b.1904). 23 June - Corinne Calvet, actress (b.1925).
[edit] July to September
July - Hélène de Beauvoir, painter (b.1910). 3 August - Jeanne Loriod, musician (b.1928). 4 August - Michel de Salzmann, psychiatrist (b.1923). 12 August - Pierre Klossowski, writer, translator and artist (b.1905). 15 August - Raymond Abescat, oldest man in France and oldest veteran in France at the time of his death (b.1891). 25 August - Philippe Léotard, actor and singer (b.1940). 4 September - Simone de la Chaume, golfer (b.1908).
[edit] October to December
18 October - Micheline Ostermeyer, athlete and pianist (b.1922). 31 October - Régine Cavagnoud, alpine skier (b.1970). 11 November - Pierre Billaud, radio reporter and journalist, killed in Afghanistan (b.1970). 12 December - Jean Richard, actor (b.1921). 18 December - Gilbert Bécaud, singer, composer and actor (b.1927). 19 December - Marcel Mule, classical saxophonist (b.1901).
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Marcel Bleibtreu, Trotskyist activist and theorist (b.1918). Pierre Chevalier, caver and mountaineer (b.1905). André Pascal, song-writer and composer (b.1932).
