The injured included five children. Four people, including one child, were said to have been seriously hurt - though three have now stabilised.
The incident occurred during a public demonstration of hostage-freeing techniques at a barracks in Aude.
The soldier who fired the shots has been detained - though an official said it was probably an accident. It is not clear why the wrong ammunition was used in Sunday's demonstration.
But it was "99.9%" likely to be "an unintentional fault," Colonel Benoit Royal, head of the French army's information service, said.
However, Defence Minister Herve Morin said: "I cannot rule out anything because we don't know what might be going on in a man's head." He said "an experienced soldier" should not be able to confuse blanks with real bullets.
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