2024 in France
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Events in the year 2024 in France.
Incumbents[edit]
- President: Emmanuel Macron (REM)
- Prime Minister:
- Élisabeth Borne (REM) (until 9 January)
- Gabriel Attal onwards
- President of the French Senate: Gérard Larcher
Events[edit]
January[edit]
- 2024 France floods
- 9 January – Gabriel Attal becomes the youngest and first openly gay Prime Minister of France.[1]
- 18 January – 2024 French farmers' protests are held against French and EU agricultural policy.[2][3]
- 23 January – A woman is killed while her husband and their daughter, all FNSEA members, are injured after a car crashes into a roadblock in Pamiers at the 2024 French farmers' protests.[4]
- 26 January – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron celebrate India's Republic Day together, with Macron being the Chief Guest at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi.[5]
- 28 January – Protesters advocating for sustainable food throw soup at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. The painting is protected by bulletproof glass and is undamaged.[6]
February[edit]
- 10 February – Électricité de France shuts down two nuclear reactors due to a fire at the Chinon Nuclear Power Plant.[7]
- 21 February – Entry of Missak Manouchian and Mélinée Manouchian into the Panthéon.[8]
April[edit]
- April–ongoing – Two people die in a cholera epidemic in Mayotte.[9]
- 19 April – A man is arrested after threatening to blow himself up near the Iranian Embassy in Paris.[10]
- 22 April – Kendji Girac, the winner of the 2014 series of The Voice: la plus belle voix, is shot in Biscarrosse.[11]
- 24 April – The union representing air traffic controllers in France cancels a planned 24-hour strike, although a majority of flights had already been cancelled.[12]
May[edit]
- May 5 – Chinese President Xi Jinping begins his European tour, starting in France, Serbia and ending in Hungary.[13][14]
- May 13–28 – 2024 New Caledonia unrest - A state of emergency is declared in New Caledonia after riots break out amid debate over a proposed electoral reform in the territory. Six people, including a police officer are killed, and at least 60 others are injured.[15][16][17]
- May 14 –
- Two prison officers are killed in an attack on a van carrying inmate Mohamed Amra near Rouen that results in his escape.[18]
- The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, with an honorary Palme d'Or award for Meryl Streep. [19]
- May 17 – An armed man is shot dead by police in Rouen after he threatens to attack a synagogue.[20]
- May 18 – The exclusive Harry Winston boutique in Paris is targeted in an armed robbery that results in the loss of “several million euros’” worth of items.[21]
- May 22 – An 18-year old man from Chechnya is arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack on a football match at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Etienne during the 2024 Paris Olympics.[22]
- May 23 – Staff at France Médias Monde, France Télévisions and Radio France go on strike in protest against plans for a merger of the public broadcasting sector proposed by Culture Minister Rachida Dati.[23]
- May 31 – France bans Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at Eurosatory.[24]
Predicted and scheduled events[edit]
- 6 June – Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.[25]
- 26 July – 11 August: 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[26]
- 28 August – 8 September: 2024 Summer Paralympics.[27]
Holidays[edit]
Source:[28]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 29 March – Good Friday†
- 31 March – Easter
- 1 April – Easter Monday
- 1 May – International Workers' Day
- 8 May – Victory Day
- 9 May – Ascension Day
- 19 May – Whit Sunday
- 20 May – Whit Monday
- 14 July – Bastille Day
- 15 August – Assumption Day
- 1 November – All Saints' Day
- 11 November – Armistice Day
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 26 December – Saint Stephen's Day†
†Good Friday and St Stephen's Day are observed in Alsace and Moselle only
Art and entertainment[edit]
- List of 2024 box office number-one films in France
- List of French films of 2024
- List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Deaths[edit]
January[edit]
- 2 January: Daniel Revenu, 81, fencer, Olympic champion (1968) and five-time bronze medalist.[29]
- 3 January:
- René Metge, 82, rally driver.[30]
- Bernard Ducuing, 73, footballer (Red Star, Reims, Montpellier).[31]
- Frédéric Bluche, 72, legal historian.[32]
- 4 January: Raymond Elena, 92, racing cyclist.[33]
- 5 January:
- Jean-Marie Rausch, 94, politician, senator (1974–1988, 1992–2001) and mayor of Metz (1971–2008).[34]
- Bernard Malgrange, 95, mathematician (Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, Malgrange preparation theorem), member of the French Academy of Sciences.[35]
- 8 January: Guy Bonnet, 78, author, composer and singer.[36]
- 9 January:
- Thierry Desmarest, 78, businessman (TotalEnergies).[37]
- Jean Céa, 91, mathematician.[38]
- 10 January: Louis Le Pensec, 87, politician, minister of agriculture (1997–1998) and senator (1998–2008).[39]
- 11 January:
- Laurence Badie, 95, actress (The Virtuous Scoundrel, Woman Times Seven, Bankers Also Have Souls) and comedian.[40]
- Guy Janvier, 75, politician, member of the general council of Hauts-de-Seine (2004–2015).[41]
- Jean-Luc Laurent, 66, politician, MP (2012–2017) and mayor of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (1995–2016, since 2020).[42]
- 13 January:
- Jean-Jacques Bénètière, 84, politician, member of parliament (1981–1986).[43]
- Bruno Ducol, 74, pianist and composer.[44]
- 14 January: Christophe Boesch, 72, French-Swiss primatologist.[45]
- 18 January: Slim Pezin, 78, guitarist, arranger and conductor.[46]
- 22 January: Pierre Chassigneux, 82, businessman and government official, president of SANEF (2003–2011).[47]
- 23 January: Jean Petit, 74, football player (Monaco, national team) and manager.[48]
- 26 January:
- Michel Hausser, 96, jazz vibraphonist.[49]
- Jean Vaillant, 91, Olympic long-distance runner (1964).[50]
- 27 January: Pierre Montlaur, 60, rugby union player (SU Agen, national team).[51]
- 29 January:
- Louis Colombani, 92, politician, deputy (1988–1997).[52]
- Séverine Foulon, 50, athlete.[53]
- Iskandar Safa, 68, Lebanese-born French shipbuilding industry executive.[54]
- 30 January: Jean-François Cordet, 73, government official, director of OFPRA (2007–2012).[55]
February[edit]
- 1 February:
- Michel Jazy, 87, middle-distance runner, Olympic silver medallist (1960).[56]
- Gilbert Millet, 93, doctor and politician, three-time deputy, mayor of Alès (1985–1989).[57]
- 2 February: Pierre Raffin, 85, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Metz (1987–2013).[58]
- 5 February:
- Brigitte Bout, 83, senator
- Jean Malaurie, 101, anthropologist and explorer.[59]
- 13 February : Alain Dorval, 77, French voice actor, he dubbed Sylvester Stallone, from 1976 to 2024
March[edit]
- 23 March: Daniel Beretta, 77, French voice actor and singer, he dubbed Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1987 to 2021.
April[edit]
- 25 April: Laurent Cantet, 63, film director (Time Out, The Class).[60]
See also[edit]
Country overviews[edit]
- History of France
- History of modern France
- Outline of France
- Government of France
- Politics of France
- Years in France
- Timeline of France history
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- ^ "France prison van attack: Two officers killed in ambush near Normandy". BBC. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
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- ^ "VIDÉOS - Le chanteur et compositeur avignonnais Guy Bonnet est décédé - France Bleu". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 2024-01-08. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
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