Daily life

Public holidays

On these days Government Departments, banks, shops . are, in the main, closed.

• New year's day : 1st january
• Easter early april / easter monday
• Labor feast : 1st may
• Victory of 1945 : 8th may
• Ascension day: (thurday mid may - end of may)
• National holiday : 14th july
• 15th august
• 1st november 
• 11th november : Armistice 1918
• Christmas : 25 décember and the day after

Communications

You will find all telphone cards (phone boxes, recharges available at Post Offices and tobacconist's…

To call from foreign country -» France :  dial the access international code: 00 33 + country code then nine digits only of the nine digit number (drop the first digit which is always 0)

• From  France -» a foreign country dial 00 + country code + the number of the person you are calling all rates and country numbers are at www.francetelecom.fr

• From France -» France : dial the 10 digit number which starts with a 0..

• From  Metropole -» DOM : 10 digits

• From  DOM -» metropole : 10 digits

To find a phone number in France : 118 710, 118 000, 118 001, 118 007 ...

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