Information about 2005 In France
See also:
2004 in France,
other events of 2005,
2006 in France and the
list of 'years in France'.
Type Daily newspaper
Format Compact
Owner Libération
Editor Antoine de Gaudemar
Founded 1973
Political allegiance Socialism
Headquarters 11, rue Béranger
F-75154 Paris Cedex 03
Website: www.liberation.
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Incumbents
- President - Jacques Chirac
- Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin then Dominique de Villepin
- Interior Minister - Dominique de Villepin then Nicolas Sarkozy
- Finance Minister - Hervé Gaymard then Thierry Breton
- Foreign Minister - Michel Barnier then Philippe Douste-Blazy
Events
- January 5 - Libération journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi guide Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi are taken hostage in Iraq (freed on June 11)
- February 11 - André Vingt-Trois is named Archbishop of Paris
- February 25 - Resignation of Minister of Finance Hervé Gaymard, following a scandal over the low rent of the exclusive apartment he occupied
- March - France released five of six suspects after their repatriation to France from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
- March 3 - Oscar Temaru is elected president of French Polynesia, ending the rule of more than 25 years by Gaston Flosse
- March 17 - René Girard is elected to the Académie Française
- March 24 - Celebration of the 100-years anniversary of the death of Jules Verne
- March 31 - Launch of Digital terrestrial television, with 14 new channels
- March 31 - An amendment to the 35-hour workweek law is voted, extending possibilities of overtime
- April - The Fillon law reforming France's education system is voted, among student protests numbering hundreds of thousands
- April 6 - First mental 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number, computed by Alexis Lemaire
- April 27 - First flight of Airbus A380 in Toulouse
- May 8 - Olympique Lyonnais wins the Ligue 1
- May 8 - Celebrations of the 60-year anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
- May 16 - Pentecost Monday ceases to be a statutory holiday, leading to strong protests
- May 29 - French referendum on the European Constitution fails
- May 31 - A new government, headed by Dominique de Villepin, is nominated
- June 28 - Official announcement that ITER will be built in Cadarache, Southern France
- July 5 - Laurence Parisot becomes the president of the Mouvement des Entreprises de France
- July 6 - Paris loses the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games to London
- July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement
- August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after skidding off the end of runway in Toronto, all passengers survive
- August 11 - Ariane 5GS launches Thaïcom-4/iPStar-1, the heaviest telecommunications satellite to date at 6505 kg, into orbit
- August 16 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes in Venezuela, killing 160, mostly French citizens from Martinique
- August 16 - Assassination of Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé community
- September 3 - Jacques Chirac is hospitalized for a "small vascular incident" affecting his eyesight
- October 27 - 2005 civil unrest in France begins, and will last until November 17
- November 16 - Ariane 5 launches Spaceway-F2 and Telkom-2, the rocket's heaviest dual payload to date, at more than 8000 kg
- November 18 - Partial privatization of Électricité de France
- November 27 - Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire. [1]
Arts and Culture
- Literary Awards:
- Prix Decembre:
- Prix Femina:
- Prix Goncourt:
- Prix Médicis French:
- Prix Médicis Non-Fiction:
- Prix Médicis International:
- Television
- Film
Sport
- Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship with a record 10 victories.
- Ladji Doucouré becomes world champion of 110 metres hurdles and 4x100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics
- Vincent Riou wins the Vendée Globe race in 87 days
Births
Deaths
- January 7: Pierre Daninos, writer and humorist
- 8 January: Michel Thomas, linguist
- January 10: Georges Bernier, also known as Le Professeur Choron, humorist
- January 15: Michel Moine, radio journalist
- 27 January: Aurélie Nemours, painter
- 28 January: Jacques Villeret, actor
- 28 January: Karen Lancaume, actress
- February 6: Hubert Curien, physicist
- February 10: Humbert Balsan, film producer
- February 10: Jean Cayrol, poet
- 13 February: Maurice Trintignant, race driver
- February 15: Pierre Bachelet, singer
- 22 February: Simone Simon, actress
- 1 March: Edouard Stern, banker
- 11 April: Lucien Laurent, football player
- May 13: Eddie Barclay, music producer
- 20 May: Paul Ricoeur, philosopher and anthropologist
- 2 July: Pierre Michelot, jazz musician
- 6 July: Claude Simon, novelist, Nobel Prize laureate in literature
- July 15: Alain Bombard, biologist
- 26 July: Pierre Broué, historian
- 3 August: Françoise d'Eaubonne, feminist writer
- 9 August: Colette Besson, athlete
- August 9: François Dalle, businessman
- August 16: Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé community
- 22 August: Henri Genès, actor
- 22 August: Luc Ferrari, composer
- August 25: Jacques Dufilho, actor
- September 9: André Pousse, actor
- September 17: Jacques Lacarrière, writer
- October 5: Alexis Tendil, World War I veteran
- October 25: Arman, painter and sculptor
- 27 October: Rene Moreau, World War I veteran
- October 28: Raymond Hains, artist and photographer
- 7 November: Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, urban violence victim
- 4 December: Gloria Lasso, singer
- December 17: Jacques Fouroux, rugby union player and coach
References
See also: 2003 in France, other events of 2004, 2005 in France and the list of 'years in France'.
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Incumbents
- President - Jacques Chirac
- Prime Minister - Jean-Pierre Raffarin
- Interior Minister - Nicolas Sarkozy then Dominique de Villepin
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Events
- 10 February–26 February - France at the 2006 Winter Olympics: France wins 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 4 Bronze medals at the Winter Olympics in Turin in Italy.
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This is a list of years in France. See also the timeline of French history. For only articles about years in France that have been written, see .
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- 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001
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Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician and a former President of France. He served from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007 and was re-elected in 2002.
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin listen (born 3 August 1948) is a French conservative politician and senator of Vienne.
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The Minister of the Interior (full title Ministre de l’Intérieur et de l’Aménagement du Territoire) in France is one of the most important governmental cabinet positions, responsible for the following:
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Minister for the Economy, Finance and Employment (ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Emploi), or Minister of Finance for short, is one of the most prominent positions in the cabinet of France after the Prime Minister.
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Hervé Gaymard (born May 31 1960 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie) is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005.
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Thierry Breton (born January 15, 1955 in Paris) was the French Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry until May 18 2007, replaced by Jean-Louis Borloo. He was appointed on February 25, 2005, replacing Hervé Gaymard.
He was born in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris.
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He was born in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris.
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Michel Barnier (born January 9, 1951) is a conservative French politician.
Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère département of the Rhône-Alpes région, in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972.
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Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère département of the Rhône-Alpes région, in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972.
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Philippe Douste-Blazy (born on 1 January, 1953) was the Foreign Minister of France in the cabinet of Dominique de Villepin.
Douste-Blazy is also a cardiologist and Christian Democrat politician from Lourdes.
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Douste-Blazy is also a cardiologist and Christian Democrat politician from Lourdes.
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January 5 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Events
- 1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Compact
Owner Libération
Editor Antoine de Gaudemar
Founded 1973
Political allegiance Socialism
Headquarters 11, rue Béranger
F-75154 Paris Cedex 03
Website: www.liberation.
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Florence Aubenas (born February 6, 1961 in Brussels) is a Belgian journalist, who worked until 2006 for the French newspaper Libération. She was taken hostage on January 5, 2005, in Iraq along with her translator Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi.
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Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi is an Iraqi interpreter and former colonel in the Iraqi air force, which he left in 1991. He is also qualified as a pilot on the Mirage F1. He was taken hostage on January 5, 2005, in Iraq along with Florence Aubenas, and was freed on June 11, 2005.
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Motto
الله أكبر (Arabic)
"Allahu Akbar" (transliteration)
"God is the Greatest"
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الله أكبر (Arabic)
"Allahu Akbar" (transliteration)
"God is the Greatest"
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June 11 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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February 11 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
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André Armand Vingt-Trois
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
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Posthumous style not applicable | The Most Reverend
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The archbishop of Paris is one of twenty-three archbishops in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by St. Denis and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum, and it was elevated to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622.
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February 25 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
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The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.
A minister of finance (also called financial affairs, the treasury, the economy, or economic affairs) has many different jobs in a government.
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A minister of finance (also called financial affairs, the treasury, the economy, or economic affairs) has many different jobs in a government.
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Hervé Gaymard (born May 31 1960 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie) is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005.
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