If you haven't already done so, now is the time to notify your credit card company that you'll be traveling to France. This will reduce the chance that your card will be declined while on the trip. It doesn't guarantee a hassle free life though.
We had our credit card declined only once on one of our trips. It happened in Turkey when buying a rug, even though I had made the call to notify the credit card companythat we'd be going there. I'll never forget that the rug cost over a BILLION Turkish Lira, but at an exchange rate of something like 1,200,000 Lira to one US Dollar at the time, we're not talking crazy wild spending here. I remember a Turkish guy telling me "we're all millionaires here." The rug merchant called the credit card collect number on the back of the card and I spoke with the guy on the other end for a few minutes and the charge went through.
Anyway, I digress. Just call the 800 number on the back of your card, and, after wading through the menu options you'll eventually get to "travel notification". I just did this with my two cards and one used a completely automated system where you entered your dates into the phone and the other actually took me to a human being. It only took a few minutes.
Typically they want at least 48 hours notice to process the notification, so do this now while you're not doing anything better with your time than reading this on the blog or your e-mail.
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