1,300 stations across France. Modifying the affected station platforms is estimated to cost €40 million. 24–25 May – The European Parliament elections take place, with National Front winning 25% of the votes, taking 24 of France's 74 seats, the UMP polling second with 20%, landing 19 seats, and the Socialists third on 14%, securing 13 seats. Front National party president Marine Le Pen declares the result a "massive rejection of the European Union", with Prime Minister Manuel Valls calling it "more than another warning; it's a shock, an earthquake". June 2 June – Plans are announced to reduce the number of regions in Metropolitan France from 22 to 14 in an effort to cut regional bureaucracy and spending. 6 June – Ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings are held in Normandy. July 17 July – A train collides into another train near Denguin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, injuring 40 people. 24 July – 54 French citizens are killed after Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashes in Mali en route from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to Algiers, Algeria, with a total of 118 fatalities. Flags are flown at half-mast in France for three days of official mourning. November 25 November – Rémy Cordonnier, librarian at Saint-Omer, announces his discovery of a previously unknown copy of a First Folio of Shakespeare (1623). December 20 December – 2014 Tours police station stabbing: Bertrand Nzohabonayo, a Burundi-born French citizen attacks and injures three police officers at Joué-lès-Tours before being shot and killed. General Christophe Guilluy publishes La France périphérique: Comment on a sacrifié les classes populaires. The penetration rate of the mobile phone in French Republic is around 107–109%. Deaths 6 January – Marina Ginestà, 94, veteran of the Spanish civil war. 29 January – François Cavanna, 90, author and newspaper editor. 1 March – Alain Resnais, 91, film director (Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad). 1 April – Jacques Le Goff, 90, historian. 7 June – Jacques Herlin, 86, actor 15 June – Jacques Bergerac, 87, actor and businessman 13 July – Lorin Maazel, 84, French-American conductor and violinist 3 August – Yvette Giraud, 97, singer and actress 26 October – Françoise Bertin, 89, actress See also History of France See also 2014 in French television List of French films of 2014 References 2010s in France