Route nationale 6

The reclassification is in part due to the centralized system of the French Government that did not allow local communities to care for the 'Nationale' roads infrastructure.

The road then bypasses Montgeron and enters Forêt domaniale de Sénart and a junction with the RN 104 before becoming the A 5 and then branching off to the South.

It was along this stretch that Albert Camus was killed in 1960 when his driver lost control and struck a plane tree in Villeblevin; but most of the villages along the road are now bypassed.

10 km north of Vézelay the road turns east to Avallon in the Vallée du Cousin.

The road passes Baubigny-la-Rochepot and past Mont de Sène (521 m) before bisecting the wine making villages of Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet.

The road continues South overlooked to the west by a ridge rising to over 800 m. Nearby town include the Beaujolais wine villages of Fleurie, Villié-Morgon and Brouilly.

The next major town is Villefranche-sur-Saône before the road heads through the Mont d'Or and into the western suburbs of Lyon and then over the river Saône into the city centre.

The RN 6 heads Southeast out of the city on the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt and passes round the small airfield de Lyon-Bron and into an industrial area parallel to the A 43 and South of the Lyon-Saint-Exupéry Airport .

The road continues south along the valley past Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and skirting the Southern edge of the Massif de la Vanoise.

At Orelle a cable car grants access to the Les Trois Vallées Ski system with the Cîme de Caron rising to 3198 m and covered in glaciers.

At the village of Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis (1416 m above sea level) the road heads South climbing steeply to the Col du Mont Cenis (2084 m).

The RD 902 continues in the Arc valley past Bessans and Bonneval-sur-Arc before turning north over the Col de l'Iseran (2764 m) and onto Val-d'Isère.

Current D 1006 (part of previous Nationale 6) entering into Modane in Savoie .