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See also:	Other events in 1986 History of France · Timeline · Years

Events from the year1986 inFrance.

• President:François Mitterrand
• Prime Minister:Laurent Fabius (until 20 March),Jacques Chirac (starting 20 March)

• 20 January – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct theChannel Tunnel, which is hoped to be open in the early 1990s.
• 12 February –Treaty of Canterbury, Anglo-French Treaty on theChannel Tunnel, is signed.
• 16 February – TheFrench Air Forceraids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northernChad.
• 21 February – Launch of theRenault 21 saloon andNevada estate, which replace theRenault 18.
• 16 March –Legislative Election held.
• 16 March –Regional Elections held.
• 1 April –Le Parisien, the French national newspaper, causes a brief public outrage by reporting that theEiffel Tower will be relocated from its location in the centre of Paris to theEuro Disney development site to the east of the city. It is quickly discovered to be anApril Fools' Day joke.^[1]
• May – Production ofTalbot passenger cars byPeugeot in France and Britain is discontinued; it is now restricted to commercial vehicles and to Spanish andFinnish production of theHorizon model, which is due to finish next year.^[2]
• June – TheRenault 4 finishes production in France after 25 years and is switched toArgentina where it is set to continue into the early 1990s.^[3]
• 2 October – Launch of theCitroën AX supermini.^[4]
• 17 November –Georges Besse, 58-year-old head of carmakerRenault, is shot dead outside his mansion in Paris; left-wing extremists are suspected of his murder.^[5]
• 6 December -Johnny Hallyday released his 35th albumGang.

• 21 January –Julien Jousse, motor racing driver.
• 13 February –Arnaud Lescure, soccer player.
• 14 February –Djamel Abdoun, soccer player.
• 24 February –Sébastien Rouault, freestyle swimmer
• 28 February –Dieudonné Owona, soccer player.
• 5 March –Alexandre Barthe, soccer player.
• 8 March –Aurélien Collin, soccer player.
• 19 March –Clément Lhotellerie, cyclist.

• 15 April –Sylvain Marveaux, soccer player.
• 8 May –Marie de Villepin, socialite, model and actress.
• 11 May –Abou Diaby, soccer player.
• 21 May –Guillaume Loriot, soccer player.
• 13 June –DJ Snake, music producer
• 18 June –Richard Gasquet, tennis player.
• 20 June –Mathieu Coutadeur, soccer player.
• 21 June –Alexandre Raineau, soccer player.
• 25 June –Guillaume Quellier, soccer player.

• 3 July –Romain Danzé, soccer player.
• 9 July –Sébastien Bassong, soccer player.
• 11 July –Jean-Christophe Napoléon, claimant to headship of theHouse 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.
• 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.
  • Damien Gaudin, cyclist.
• 1 September –Jean Sarkozy, regional councillor, son ofPresident of France,Nicolas Sarkozy.
• 11 September –Cédric Avinel, soccer player.
• 16 September –Gaëtan Belaud, soccer player.

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

• 8 January –Pierre Fournier, cellist (born 1906).
• 9 January –Michel de Certeau,Jesuit and scholar (born 1925).
• 11 January –Roger Trinquier, army officer (born 1908).
• 12 January –Marcel Arland, novelist, literary critic and journalist (born 1899).
• 14 January
  • Daniel Balavoine, singer and songwriter (born 1952).
  • Thierry Sabine, motor cycle racer (born 1949).
• 23 January –Yvonne Lefébure, pianist (born 1898).
• 19 February –André Leroi-Gourhan,archaeologist,paleontologist,paleoanthropologist andanthropologist (born 1911).
• 22 February –Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General (born 1907).
• 23 March –Étienne Mattler, international soccer player (born 1905).

• 14 April –Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (born 1908).
• 15 April –Jean Genet, writer and political activist (born 1910).
• 17 April –Marcel Dassault, aircraftindustrialist (born 1892).
• 29 April –Henri de France, pioneering television inventor (born 1911).
• 7 May –Gaston Defferre, politician (born 1910).
• 5 June –Henri Michel, historian (born 1907).
• 16 June
  • Christian Beullac, politician and Minister (born 1923).
  • Maurice Duruflé, composer and organist (born 1902).
• 19 June –Coluche, comedian and actor (born 1944).

• 1 July –Jean Baratte, soccer player and manager (born 1923).
• 14 July –Raymond Loewy, industrial designer (born 1893).
• 17 July –Pierre Langlais, military officer (born 1909).
• 14 August –Pierre Bertaux,Germanist (born 1907).
• 15 August –Louis Peglion, cyclist (born 1906).
• 9 September –Albert Malet, painter (born 1912).
• 12 September –Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer and painter (born 1894).

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

• Jacques Baron, poet (born 1905).
• Roger Trézel,bridge player (born 1918).

• List of French films of 1986

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