1986 in France

"See also:"
1985 in France,
other events of 1986,
1987 in France.

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Events from the year 1986 in France.

Events

*20 January - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
*12 February - Treaty of Canterbury, Anglo-French Treaty on the Channel Tunnel, is signed.
*16 February - The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.
*16 March - Legislative Election held.
*16 March - Regional Elections held.

Arts and Literature

port

*4 July - Tour de France begins.
*27 July - Tour de France ends, won by Greg LeMond of the United States.

Births

January to March

*21 January - Julien Jousse, motor racing driver.
*13 February - Arnaud Lescure,soccer player.
*14 February - Djamel Abdoun, soccer player.
*28 February - Dieudonné Owona, soccer player.
*5 March - Alexandre Barthe, soccer player.
*8 March - Aurélien Collin, soccer player.
*19 March - Clément Lhotellerie, cyclist.

April to June

*15 April - Sylvain Marveaux, soccer player.
*11 May - Abou Diaby, soccer player.
*21 May - Guillaume Loriot, soccer player.
*30 May - Anthony Delavaud, soccer player.
*18 June - Richard Gasquet, tennis player.
*20 June - Mathieu Coutadeur, soccer player.
*21 June - Alexandre Raineau, soccer player.
*25 June - Guillaume Quellier, soccer player.

July to September

*3 July - Romain Danzé, soccer player.
*9 July - Sébastien Bassong, soccer player.
*11 July - Jean-Christophe Napoléon, claimant to headship of the House of Bonaparte.
*12 July - Didier Digard, soccer player.
*27 July - François Braud, Nordic combined skier.
*6 August - Jérôme Coppel, cyclist.
*7 August - Alexis Allart, soccer player.
*9 August - Romain Brégerie, soccer player.
*10 August - Julien Chendri, soccer player.
*11 August - Zoumana Bakayogo, soccer player.
*13 August - Xavier Pentecôte, soccer player.
*17 August - Julien Quercia, soccer player.
*19 August - Arnaud Brocard, soccer player.
*20 August - Pernelle Carron, ice dancer.
*20 August - Damien Gaudin, cyclist.
*1 September - Jean Sarkozy, regional councillor, son of President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy.
*11 September - Cédric Avinel, soccer player.
*16 September - Gaëtan Belaud, soccer player.

October to December

*9 October - Laure Manaudou, swimmer.
*10 October - Pierre Rolland, cyclist.
*1 November - Arnaud Mignardi, rugby union player.
*16 November - Maxime Médard, rugby union player.
*17 October - Alexandre Bonnet, soccer player.
*11 November - François Trinh-Duc, rugby union player.
*17 November - Alexis Vastine, boxer.
*30 November - Abdoulaye Baldé, soccer player.

Full date unknown

*Marie de Villepin, socialite, model, and actress.

Deaths

January to March

*8 January - Pierre Fournier, cellist (b.1906).
*9 January - Michel de Certeau, Jesuit and scholar (b.1925).
*11 January - Roger Trinquier, army officer (b.1908).
*12 January - Marcel Arland, novelist, literary critic and journalist (b.1899).
*14 January - Thierry Sabine, motor cycle racer (b.1949).
*23 January - Yvonne Lefébure, pianist (b.1898).
*19 February - André Leroi-Gourhan, archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist (b.1911).
*22 February - Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General (b.1907).
*23 March - Étienne Mattler, international soccer player (b.1905).

April to June

*14 April - Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (b.1908).
*15 April - Jean Genet, writer and political activist (b.1910).
*17 April - Marcel Dassault, aircraft industrialist (b.1892).
*29 April - Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (b.1911).
*7 May - Gaston Defferre, politician (b.1910).
*16 June - Christian Beullac, politician and Minister (b.1923).
*16 June - Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (b.1902).
*19 June - Coluche, comedian and actor (b.1944).

July to September

*1 July - Jean Baratte, soccer player and manager (b.1923).
*14 July - Raymond Loewy, industrial designer (b.1893).
*14 August - Pierre Bertaux, Germanist (b.1907).
*15 August - Louis Peglion, cyclist (b.1906).
*12 September - Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer and painter (b.1894).

October to December

*11 October - Georges Dumézil, philologist (b.1898).
*1 November - Pierre Repp, humorist and actor (b.1909).
*13 November - Thierry Le Luron, impersonator and humorist (b.1952).
*17 November - Georges Besse, businessman, assassinated (b.1927).
*27 November - Philippe Viannay, journalist (b.1917).
*27 December - André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist (b.1907).

Full date unknown

*Jacques Baron, poet (b.1905).
*Albert Malet, painter (b.1912).
*Henri Michel, historian (b.1907).
*Marcel Simon, historian (b.1907).
*Roger Trézel, bridge player (b.1918).

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