2008 in France

Years in France:	2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Centuries:	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
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Years:	2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Events from the year 2008 in France.

Incumbents

Events

1 January – Smoking banned in all public places (including bars and restaurants) in France.
2 February – Wedding of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni.^[1]
9 and 16 March – Cantonal elections held.^[2]
12 March – Lazare Ponticelli, the country's last surviving First World War veteran, dies at the age of 110 – eight months before the 90th anniversary of the Armistace.
April – The Citroën C5 sedan is launched, whilst the station wagon was launched in May.
1 July – France assumes the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
2 July – Íngrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages are rescued from FARC by Colombian security forces.
13 July – First meeting of Mediterranean Union, in Paris
10 September – Activation of Large Hadron Collider, localized between France and Switzerland
4 October – 50th Anniversary of the French Constitution of 1958 (French Fifth Republic).
27 November – XL Airways Germany Flight 888T crashed on a Mediterranean Sea, near Canet-en-Roussillon around Perpignan, killed seven people.
October : Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier – the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Arts and Literature

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis : best French box office in France.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio : the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature

Sport

22 June – French Grand Prix.
5 to 27 July – Tour de France.^[3]
Beach Soccer World Cup in Marseille^[4]

Deaths

January

3 January – Henri Chopin, avant-garde poet and musician (born 1922).
5 January – Raymond Forni, Socialist politician (born 1941).
5 January – Louis Hon, soccer player (born 1924).
7 January – Maryvonne Dupureur, Olympic athlete (born 1937).
7 January – Marcel Mouly, artist (born 1918).
7 January – Jean-Claude Vrinat, restaurateur (born 1936).
12 January – Louis Alexandre Raimon, hair stylist (born 1922).
16 January – Raymond Cambefort, one of the last three fully verified World War I veterans living in France (born 1900).
16 January – Pierre Lambert, Trotskyist leader (born 1920).
17 January – Carlos, singer, entertainer and actor (born 1943).
17 January – Madeleine Milhaud, actress (born 1902).
20 January – Louis de Cazenave, at the time of his death, the oldest French poilu still alive (born 1897).
29 January – Philippe Khorsand, actor (born 1948).

February

2 February – Roger Testu, cartoonist (born 1913).
6 February – Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, writer and Grand Druid of Brittany (born 1929).
12 February – Jean Prouff, soccer player and manager (born 1919).
13 February – Henri Salvador, singer (born 1917).
13 February – Roger Voisin, trumpeter (born 1918).
18 February – Alain Robbe-Grillet, writer and filmmaker (born 1922).
19 February – Jean-Michel Bertrand, politician (born 1943).
28 February – Gérard Calvet, Roman Catholic abbot (born 1927).

March

12 March – Lazare Ponticelli, last surviving official French veteran of the First World War (born 1897).
17 March – Roland Arnall, businessman and diplomat in the United States (born 1939).
19 March – Chantal Sébire, teacher and euthanasia campaigner (born 1955).
25 March – Thierry Gilardi, football and rugby commentator (born 1958).
26 March – Christian Bergelin, politician (born 1945).
27 March – Jean-Marie Balestre, sports executive (born 1921).
30 March – Marie-Françoise Audollent, actress (born 1943).

April

9 April – Jacques Morel, actor (born 1922).
11 April – Claude Abbes, international soccer player (born 1927).
17 April – Aimé Césaire, poet, author and politician (born 1913).
19 April – Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (born 1907).
20 April – Farid Chopel, actor, comedian and singer (born 1952).
23 April – Jean-Daniel Cadinot, film director and producer (born 1944).

May

9 May – Pascal Sevran, TV presenter and author (born 1945).
10 May – Paul Haeberlin, chef and restaurateur (born 1923).

June

1 June – Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer (born 1936).
6 June – Paul Tessier, surgeon (born 1917).
11 June – Jean Desailly, actor (born 1920).
18 June – Jean Delannoy, actor, screenwriter and film director (born 1908).
26 June – Lilyan Chauvin, actress and writer (born 1925).
27 June – Frédéric Botton, lyricist and composer (b. c1937).
27 June – Raymond Lefèvre, orchestra leader, arranger and composer (born 1929).

July

10 July – Bernard Cahier, Formula One photo-journalist (born 1927).
28 July – Pierre Berès, bookseller and antiquarian book collector (born 1913).

October

13 October – Guillaume Depardieu Actor
20 October – Soeur Emmanuelle^[5]

November

1 November – Jacques Lunis, athlete (born 1923).

References

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2008 in Europe

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