2000 in France

Incumbents

• President: Jacques Chirac
• Prime Minister: Lionel Jospin

  Events

February

• 1 February – a 35-hour working week imposed on companies of over 20 employees.

  June

• June – National Assembly votes in favour of changing the Presidential term to five years.

  July

• 2 July — France wins the UEFA European Football Championship.
• 25 July – Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crashed outside Paris killing all 109 passengers and crew.

  September

• 24 September – Constitutional Referendum is held on whether the presidential mandate should be reduced from seven to five years.

  November

• 4 November – a demonstration is held in Paris for the abolition of prisons.

  Births

• 3 August – Léo Rispal, singer and winner

  Deaths

January to March

• 1 January – Jean-Claude Izzo, poet, playwright, screenwriter and novelist.
• 2 January – Henri René Guieu, science fiction writer.
• 3 February – Pierre Plantard, draughtsman, principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax.
• 5 February – Claude Autant-Lara, film director and later MEP.
• 11 February – Jacqueline Auriol, aviator who set several world speed records.
• 11 February – Roger Vadim, film director.
• 5 March – Lolo Ferrari, dancer, porn star, actress, and singer.

  April to June

• 11 April – Pierre Ghestem, bridge and checkers player.
• 20 May – Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist.
• 6 June – Frédéric Dard, writer.
• 22 June – Philippe Chatrier, tennis player.
• 25 June – Pascal Themanlys, poet, zionist, and Kabbalist.
• 27 June – Pierre Pflimlin, politician and Prime Minister.
• 28 June – Sid Ahmed Rezala, French serial killer.

  July to September

• 3 July – André Guinier, physicist.
• 17 July – Pascale Audret, actress.
• 18 July – René Chocat, basketball player.
• 22 July – Claude Sautet, author and film director.
• 14 August – Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher.
• 26 August – Odette Joyeux, actress and writer.
• 20 September – Jeanloup Sieff, photographer.

  October to December

• 10 November – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister.
• 10 November – Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator.
• 17 November – Louis Néel, physicist, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970.
• 22 November – Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer and humanist scholar.
• 25 November – Raymond Janot, politician.
• 29 November – Bernard Pertuiset, neurosurgeon.
• 15 December – Jacques Goddet, sports journalist and Tour de France director.
• 28 December – Jacques Laurent, writer and journalist.

  Full date unknown

• Pierre Allain, climber.
• Pierre Gabaye, composer.
• Antoine Guillaumont, archaeologist and Syriac scholar.
• Jean Vallette d'Osia, Lieutenant General.