Nursery school is compulsory in France?

Children from 3 to 6 years old are old enough to be enrolled in kindergarten. Kindergarten which welcomes very young children to prepare them for fundamental learning. Kindergarten is a school which welcomes very young children to prepare them for the basic learning of reading, writing and arithmetic. It is a preparatory period for elementary education: the essential objectives are socialization, the establishment of language, number and graphic gesture.