If your driving licence is from an EEA country it is also valid in France.
If however, you have a driving licence from a country outside the EEA, you can drive on French soil with your own licence for the duration of your studies, as long as you have a student resident’s card.
Speeding and dangerous driving (alcohol, drugs…) are severely punished, usually by the removal of your driving licence. Be careful !
If however, you have a driving licence from a country outside the EEA, you can drive on French soil with your own licence for the duration of your studies, as long as you have a student resident’s card.
If you stay in France once your studies are finished, you have one year to change your foreign driving licence for a French one. This year’s delay is worked out from the date on your student resident’s card
Take a driving lesson at one of the driving schools (auto-école), this will be very useful and there are usually special student prices.Speeding and dangerous driving (alcohol, drugs…) are severely punished, usually by the removal of your driving licence. Be careful !
