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of the road. If you must take the driving exam, enrol in a
course at a certified driving school. Ask at your embassy
for suggestions for écoles de conduite (driving schools);
some schools have sections for English speakers. Code de la
Route , a booklet detailing the rules of the road, is available in
most bookshops.
Fehrenbach Driving School; 53 boulevard Henri-Sellier
92150 Suresnes; tel: [phone]; fax: [phone];
website:http://www.frenchlicense.eu. This school conducts
all classes in English.
Report a lost driver's licence to the police immediately.
They will issue a récipissé de déclaration de perte ou de vol de
pièce d'identité , an acknowledgment that identity documents
have been lost or stolen. Carry this when you drive until you
have received a replacement licence.
For traffic violations, France, along with other EU
countries, has a system whereby one loses points on the
driver's licence for each infraction: the worse the infraction,
the more points one loses, and the licence is forfeited when