Country format
France Address Format Guide
French postal addresses normally progress from recipient information to delivery details, street, and then a five-digit postal code followed by the locality. Building, residence, entrance, floor, apartment, or care-of details can occupy optional lines before the street.
Standard French address layout
Camille Martin
12 RUE DE RIVOLI
75001 PARIS
FRANCE
La Poste recommends a compact, left-aligned address block with a maximum of six lines. The final delivery lines are commonly written in uppercase for machine readability, and punctuation should not be required by a form.
Field mapping
| Form field | French value | QA consideration |
|---|---|---|
| Address Line 1 | 12 Rue de Rivoli | Allow number followed by street type and name. |
| Address Line 2 | Bâtiment B, Appartement 24 | Keep building and apartment details optional. |
| Postal code | 75001 | Store five digits as text. |
| City / locality | Paris | Render after the postal code on the same line. |
| Country | France | Add the full name for international output. |
Additional French examples
Élodie Bernard
BÂTIMENT C APPARTEMENT 18
7 AVENUE JEAN JAURÈS
69007 LYON
FRANCE
Atelier Lumière
BP 204
06004 NICE CEDEX 1
FRANCE
Form testing checklist
- Preserve accents, apostrophes, hyphens, and French street names throughout the workflow.
- Support building, residence, floor, apartment, care-of, and PO Box information.
- Keep postal code and locality together on labels and confirmation pages.
- Do not require a state field for standard French domestic addresses.
- Test CEDEX and long secondary-line examples without truncation.
Reproducible CEDEX and secondary-line test
| Input | Expected output | Common failure |
|---|---|---|
| BÂTIMENT C APPARTEMENT 18 | Optional delivery-detail line | The entire line is truncated or forced into the street field. |
| 06004 NICE CEDEX 1 | Postal code and complete locality qualifier | CEDEX 1 is removed as an invalid city suffix. |
| 7 AVENUE JEAN JAURÈS | Street line with accents preserved | Normalization causes irreversible character loss. |
| FRANCE | Final international line only | Country is duplicated inside the locality field. |
Run the record through checkout, address-book editing, label rendering, and CSV export. The result may be uppercased for a label, but the stored source should remain available for user-facing display. Validation should accept a standard five-digit postal code while avoiding claims that the code proves the address is deliverable.