Schools [Public] Educational Info & Teachers Associations

Shipping International Consultants  & Services

•  Services
  • DHL France
  • FEDEX France
  • UPS France

Shopping

• Major stores of all kinds [all stores may not be in all Regions]
  • BHV (Bazar de l’Hotel de Ville) Hardware/Home Improvement
  • Bricolage France (like Home Depot & Lowe’s) home improvement
  • Carrefour super and hypermarché  stores (similar to our Target & Walmart super stores, but more) is the largest retailer in Europe  and consists of the following stores:  Carrefour, Champion, Contact GB, Dia, Di per di, Docks Market, Ed, 8 à Huit,   GS, Promocash, Prodirest, Proxi, Shopi  Marche M Plus, Norte, Ooshop, Puntocash
  • Castorama (like our Home Depot & Lowe’s) home improvement
  • Darty for major appliances, computer & software, cameras, telephones,  televisions
  • FNAC Department Store for books, computers  & software,  dvd & video, music, mobile phones and more
  • France Loisirs for cds, dvds, music and more
  • Galeries Lafayette Department Store (the capital of fashion)
  • Habitat inexpensive furniture and furnishings for your home
  • IKEA reasonably priced furniture & other home furnishings
  • Laserland dvd equipment
  • Le Bon Marche Department Store
  • Le Printemps the trendy place Department Store
  • Monoprix department & grocery store chain that includes: BHV, Galeries Lafayette, Inno, Nouvelle Galeries & Prisunic
  • Sport 2000  France (brand names for sports)
  • Twinner / Groupe S.E.D mountain & skiing specialists
  • Virgin on line catalog of the cds,dvds, music & more megastores

Spas/Thermales

Sports Activities/Sporting Events

• Official government site for Youth Sports

Telephone Usage and Information

• Telephone Codes for France
  • ACR's Calling Code Directory For France
• Telephone Usage
  • Useful information for using the telephones in Paris and France. This site has other useful information regarding phone related services.
  • U.S. site on French postal and telephone information
• White and Yellow Pages France
  • White Pages France [English, French]
  • Yellow Pages France [English, French]

Tours/Travel Agencies/Sight Seeing & Related Information

• Sight Seeing
• Tours
  • Normandy Safaris is a French Holiday designed to span a thousand years.  From Monet's gardens to Omaha Beach and D-Day Landing Beaches.
• Travel Agencies
• Travel Insurance
  • International Travel Insurance

Transportation Services & Facilities

• Auto Rentals
  • Official French Auto Rental Sites
• Bus
  • Bus companies and auto rentals
  • Busing around Europe
• Train Information & Schedules
  • A train station is called a Gare, select your train information from the following:  SNCF gare locator,  SNCF Paris,  the TGV (fast trains), the RER [regional trains], and the Eurostar
  • France Rail Passes
  • Eurorail Pass, Euro Ticket and Europass
  • Regional Train Schedules
• Transportation Information
  • Link to Transportation Sources and More Informaion
  • Official Government transportation sight, complete listings for car rentals, chauffered limousines, boats, buses, trains and more

Useful Information [Weather/Calendar of Events/Etc]

• General
  • A - Z practical information
  • Credit card information for France
  • Information on the Euro currency
  • Link to more useful information
  • Official French postal site
  • Useful Tips for Traveling in France
  • Useful and practical information links for traveling in France
  • Useful Information for the Traveler in France
  • Worldwide currency converter site
• Your Rights in France
  • Your RIGHTS in France

Weather

• France Regional Weather Info
• Weather Information  by City or Town [click on links]  

What to Wear

• Complete how to pack light for your trip, with practical advice to boot!

Words/Phrases

• French/English Cooking Basics and Words/Phrases
• French/English French Words and Phrase Link Words/Phrases
• French/English Days, Months &  Time Words/Phrases
• French/English Food Store Words/Phrases [there's 3 pages]
• French/English Restaurant Words/Phrases
• French/English Vegetable Words/Phrases
• Link to more culinary words & phrases in the gourmet section

Youth/Students

• Student Information
  • Link to Schools and Universities
  • The Student in France
• Youth & Family Activities
  • Summer camps and family holidays in France
• Youth Hostels
  • FUAJ hostels click on map of France by Department
  • GAF hostels with click on map of the Regions
• Youth Organizations
  • Scouts of France with links to scouting sites and the national organization.

Zip Code Directory for the Region of Lorraine

• The Region Denotes the Zip Information
  • Postal Codes in France, enter the town name in the 'Commune' box and hit rechercher. Example:  If the town is Aix-en-Provence, just enter Aix, it will bring up all the towns with Aix in them.  The same with Saint, or Ville [there's 587 Ville....something]
  • From Uniserve Just fill in town and hit submit for zip info
  • Infobel's zip code person/request form
  • Business/Company search L'Annuaire de la Poste
• La Poste's French/English Postal Dictionary
  • La Poste English/French or French/English postal information dictionary