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Elderly second-home owners: used car or rental in France?
Choice between registering a vehicle or renting one depends on number of factors
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Is it possible to switch Amazon Prime account when moving to France from US?
Certain content is geo-restricted
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Can someone take my car for French roadworthiness test if I am away at the time?
Vehicles without a test certificate cannot be used
What is a tribunal de proximité?
I wish to take legal action and was told to apply to a tribunal de proximité . What is this?

This term is new this year, as part of a reform which abolished the terms tribunal d’instance and tribunal de grande instance (for more important cases). In theory they are all now absorbed into a service called tribunal judiciaire, but in smaller towns that only had a tribunal d’instance these are now deemed a local branch attached to a court in a bigger centre, and are described as tribunal de proximité.