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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 Iraqi guide Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi are taken hostage in Iraq (freed on June 11)
- April 6 - First 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 win the Ligue 1
- May 29 - French referendum on the European Constitution fails
- 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 survived
- August 16 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes in Venezuela, killing 160, mostly French citizens from Martinique
- October 27 - 2005 civil unrest in France begins, and will last until November 17
- November 30 - Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant
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.
Births
Deaths
- 8 January: Michel Thomas, linguist
- 27 January: Aurélie Nemours, painter
- 28 January: Jacques Villeret, actor
- 28 January: Karen Lancaume, actress
- 13 February: Maurice Trintignant, race driver
- 22 February: Simone Simon, actress
- 1 March: Edouard Stern, banker
- 11 April: Lucien Laurent, football player
- 20 May: Paul Ricoeur, philosopher and anthropologist
- 2 July: Pierre Michelot, jazz musician
- 6 July: Claude Simon, novelist, Nobel Prize laureate in literature
- 26 July: Pierre Broué, historian
- 3 August: Françoise d'Eaubonne, feminist
- 9 August: Colette Besson, athlete
- 16 August: Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé community
- 22 August: Henri Genès, actor
- 22 August: Luc Ferrari, composer
- 27 October: Rene Moreau, World War I veteran
- 7 November: Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, urban violence victim
- 4 December: Gloria Lasso, singer