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2006
This article lists events from the year 2006 in France.
Incumbents
President: Jacques Chirac
Prime Minister: Dominique de Villepin
Events
February - April – Youth protests in France.
9 March – Sablé-sur-Sarthe hostage crisis: A former teacher takes 23 hostages including 21 students."Ex-teacher seizes French students", BBC News Online
April – France formally charges six defendants of the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/09/france-judge-postpones-terrorism.php France judge postpones terrorism verdict for former Guantanamo detainees 1 October 2006 17 October 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20061017152056/http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/09/france-judge-postpones-terrorism.php dead
July – France begins the trial against six defendants of the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.
11 October – A train crash at Zoufftgen kills six people.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6053204.stm Luxembourg takes rail crash blame BBC News 15 October 2006 2006-10-16
16 November – Franco–Italian–Spanish Middle East Peace Plan is announced.
Full date unknown:
Axess Vision Technology, a medical device manufacturer is founded.Brosky John 2009 Three EU companies vying to launch single use endoscope Medical Device Daily 13
Births
births in 2006
Category:2006 births
8 March – Warren Zaïre-Emery, footballer
12 June – Nell Angloma, basketball player
7 December – Baptiste Addis, archer
Deaths
January
16 January – Rebiha Khebtani, politician (born 1926).
21 January – Jean-Marie Goasmat, cyclist (born 1913).
27 January – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, mountaineer (born 1965).
February
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).
March
9 March – Jean Leymarie, art historian (born 1919).
10 March – Jean Hermil, Roman Catholic bishop of Viviers (born 1917).
22 March – Pierre Clostermann, flying ace, author, engineer and politician (born 1921).
March – Jean Desclaux, rugby union coach (born 1922).
April
5 April – Alain de Boissieu, Army chief-of-staff (born 1914).
17 April – Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (born 1907).
25 April – Roger Duchêne, biographer (born 1930).
30 April – Jean-François Revel, politician, journalist, author and philosopher (born 1924).
May
1 May – Jean-Pierre Hubert, author (born 1941).
9 May – Edouard Jaguer, poet and art critic (born 1924).
23 May – Philippe Amaury, publishing tycoon and entrepreneur (born 1940).
24 May – Claude Piéplu, actor (born 1923).
26 May – Édouard Michelin, businessman (born 1963)Édouard Michelin, 42, Tire Executive, Is Dead The New York Times Associated Press A14 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/business/27michelin.html?scp=14&sq=Michelin&st=nyt 27 May 2006 11 May 2008
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).
June
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 and quantum chemist (born 1920).
21 June – Jacques Lanzmann, writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer (born 1927).
July
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 Pascal Renwick, French voice actor (born 1954)
20 July – Charles Bettelheim, economist and historian (born 1913).
20 July – Gérard Oury, actor, writer and producer (born 1919).
28 July – Irène Skorik, ballet dancer, actress and composer (born 1924/1928)
29 July – Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian (born 1930).
August
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 television news presenter (born 1945).
26 August – François Lamoureux, European civil servant (born 1946).
26 August – Marie-Dominique Philippe, Dominican philosopher and theologian (born 1912).
September
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).
October
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).
November
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).
December
1 December – Claude Jade, actress (born 1948).
27 December – Pierre Delanoë, songwriter/lyricist (born 1918).
Full date unknown
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, psychoanalyst (born 1928).
References
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