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

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Events from the year 1986 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 January to March 4.2 April to June 4.3 July to September 4.4 October to December 4.5 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 January to March 5.2 April to June 5.3 July to September 5.4 October to December 5.5 Full date unknown 6 References

[edit] 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.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

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

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

• 21 January - Julien Jousse, motor racing driver.
• 13 February - Arnaud Lescure,soccer player.
• 14 February - Djamel Abdoun, soccer player.
• February 24 - 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.
• 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Full date unknown

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

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] References