2011 in France
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The events from the year 2011 in France are mentioned below:
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 30 January – France win the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship after defeating Denmark.
March
[edit]- 20 March and 27 March – 2011 French cantonal elections
June
[edit]- June – International Institute of Nuclear Energy is officially inaugurated.[1]
November
[edit]- 6 November – 7 November – about 7,500 homes in the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes lost internet or phone service due to floods in Europe.
- 29 November – France including its overseas territories switched off all of its analogue signals at the same time.
General
[edit]The penetration rate of the mobile phone in French Republic is from around 96-97% to 100-101%.[2]
Ongoing
[edit]Births
[edit]- 19 October – Giulia Sarkozy, daughter of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni
Deaths
[edit]![[icon]](/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (November 2011) |
- 17 January – Jean Dutourd, novelist (born 1920)
- 3 February
- Maria Schneider, actress (born 1952)
- Édouard Glissant, writer, poet and literary critic (born 1928)
- 6 February – Andrée Chedid, Egyptian-born poet and novelist (born 1920)
- 15 February – François Nourissier, journalist and writer (born 1927)
- 23 February – Jean Lartéguy, writer, journalist, and former soldier (born 1920)
- 28 February – Annie Girardot, actress (born 1931)
- 25 March – Jean Royer, politician, former Minister, and former Mayor of Tours (born 1920)
- 24 April – Marie-France Pisier, Indochinese-born actress (born 1944)
- 22 November – Danielle Mitterrand, activist and widow of François Mitterrand (born 1924)
- 25 December – Christophe Laigneau, footballer (Stade Lavallois) (born 1965)
References
[edit]- ^ "CEA - Le CEA - Actualités - inauguration I2EN" (in French). Cea.fr. 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
- ^ https://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=13098 Archived 2017-07-30 at the Wayback Machine A. I Taux de pénétration mobile en France
Links
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