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This article lists events from theyear2006 inFrance.

• President:Jacques Chirac
• Prime Minister:Dominique de Villepin

• February - April –Youth protests in France.
• 9 March –Sablé-sur-Sarthe hostage crisis: A former teacher takes 23 hostages including 21 students.^[1]
• April – France formally charges six defendants of theGuantanamo Bay detainment camp.^[2]
• July – France begins the trial against six defendants of theGuantanamo Bay detainment camp.^[2]
• 11 October –A train crash at Zoufftgen kills six people.^[3]
• 16 November –Franco–Italian–Spanish Middle East Peace Plan is announced.
• Full date unknown:
  • Axess Vision Technology, a medical device manufacturer is founded.^[4]

• 16 January –Rebiha Khebtani, politician (born 1926).
• 21 January –Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (born 1913).
• 27 January –Jean-Christophe Lafaille,mountaineer (born 1965).

• 9 February –André Strappe, international soccer player (born 1928).
• 12 February –Henri Guédon, percussionist (born 1944).
• 13 February –Ilan Halimi, kidnap and murder victim (b. c1982).
• 14 February –Darry Cowl, musician and actor (born 1925).

• 9 March –Jean Leymarie,art historian (born 1919).
• 10 March –Jean Hermil, Roman Catholic bishop ofViviers (born 1917).
• 22 March –Pierre Clostermann, flying ace, author, engineer and politician (born 1921).
• March –Jean Desclaux, rugby union coach (born 1922).

• 5 April –Alain de Boissieu, Army chief-of-staff (born 1914).
• 17 April –Jean Bernard,physician andhaematologist (born 1907).
• 25 April –Roger Duchêne, biographer (born 1930).
• 30 April –Jean-François Revel, politician, journalist, author and philosopher (born 1924).

• 1 May –Jean-Pierre Hubert, author (born 1941).
• 9 May –Edouard Jaguer, poet andart critic (born 1924).
• 23 May –Philippe Amaury, publishingtycoon and entrepreneur (born 1940).
• 24 May –Claude Piéplu, actor (born 1923).
• 26 May –Édouard Michelin, businessman (born 1963)^[5]
• 26 May –Raymond Triboulet, resistance fighter and politician (born 1906).
• 27 May –Michael Riffaterre, literary critic and theorist (born 1924).
• 29 May –Johnny Servoz-Gavin,motor racing driver (born 1942).

• 5 June –André Mandouze, academic and journalist (born 1916).
• 6 June –Léon Weil, World War I veteran (born 1896).
• 11 June –Rolande Falcinelli,organist, pianist and composer (born 1920).
• 15 June –Raymond Devos, humorist, comedian and clown (born 1922).
• 19 June –René Renou, wine expert (born 1952).
• 20 June –Raymond Daudel,theoretical andquantum chemist (born 1920).
• 21 June –Jacques Lanzmann, writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer (born 1927).

• 3 July –Francis Cammaerts,Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent (born 1916).
• 8 July –Catherine Leroy, photojournalist and photographer (born 1945).
• 19 July -Pascal Renwick [fr], French voice actor (born 1954)
• 20 July –Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (born 1913).
• 20 July –Gérard Oury, actor, writer and producer (born 1919).
• 29 July –Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian (born 1930).

• 2 August –Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, militant communist, resistance fighter and politician (born 1914).
• 10 August –Olivier Lecerf, businessman and racehorse owner (b. c1928).
• 17 August –Bernard Rapp, film director and televisionnews presenter (born 1945).
• 26 August –François Lamoureux, European civil servant (born 1946).
• 26 August –Marie-Dominique Philippe, Dominican philosopher and theologian (born 1912).

• 1 September –Nathalie Gautier, politician (born 1951).
• 3 September –Françoise Claustre,archaeologist, (born 1937).
• 9 September –Gérard Brach, film director and screenwriter (born 1927).
• 11 September –Solange Fernex, pacifist activist and politician (born 1934).
• 20 September –Henri Jayer,vintner (born 1922).
• 30 September –André Schwarz-Bart, novelist (born 1928).

• 6 October –Claude Luter, jazz clarinetist (born 1923).
• 9 October –Coccinelle,transsexual actress and entertainer (born 1931).
• 9 October –Danièle Huillet, filmmaker (born 1936).
• 12 October –Eugène Martin, motor racing driver (born 1915).
• 17 October –Daniel Emilfork, actor (born 1924).
• 28 October –Tina Aumont, actress (born 1946).

• 2 November –Adrien Douady, mathematician (born 1935).
• 3 November –Paul Mauriat, musical director (born 1925).
• 7 November –Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, journalist and politician (born 1924).
• 10 November –Maurice Floquet, France's oldest man on record (born 1894).
• 11 November –Anicée Alvina, singer and actress (born 1953).
• 12 November –Alphonse Halimi, boxer (born 1932).
• 14 November –Gustave Choquet, mathematician (born 1915).
• 14 November –Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, journalist, essayist and novelist (born 1929).
• 23 November –Philippe Noiret, actor (born 1930).

• 1 December –Claude Jade, actress (born 1948).
• 27 December –Pierre Delanoë, songwriter/lyricist (born 1918).

• Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel,psychoanalyst (born 1928).

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