The events from the year 2011 in France are mentioned below:
Incumbents
Events
January
- 30 January – France win the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship after defeating Denmark.
March
- 20 March and 27 March – 2011 French cantonal elections
June
- June – International Institute of Nuclear Energy is officially inaugurated.[1]
November
- 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
The penetration rate of the mobile phone in French Republic is from around 96-97% to 100-101%.[2]
Ongoing
Births
- 19 October – Giulia Sarkozy, daughter of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni
Deaths
- 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
- ^ "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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