You have swapped Manchester, Bristol or South London for Paris, Lyon or the Dordogne, and you rent your French home from a private landlord. The first surprise for British tenants is pleasant: French tenancy law protects the person who lives in the flat far more than the law of England and Wales protects an assured shorthold tenant. The second surprise is less pleasant: everything runs in French, through French forms, French inventories and French judges, and a single missed deadline can undo the strongest case. This guide explains, in English, how a British tenant in France recovers a deposit, forces a landlord to repair an indecent flat, answers a notice to vacate and stops an eviction, with the exact legal texts and the latest court decisions.<\/p>\n
French vocabulary first, because every letter you receive will use it. The bail<\/em> is the lease. The bailleur<\/em> is the landlord. You are the locataire<\/em>, the tenant. The d\u00e9p\u00f4t de garantie<\/em> is the tenancy deposit. The \u00e9tat des lieux<\/em> is the inventory of condition drawn up when you move in and when you leave. The cong\u00e9<\/em> is the formal notice by which the landlord asks you to leave at the end of the lease. The juge des contentieux de la protection<\/em>, known as the JCP, is the specialist judge who hears nearly all disputes between landlords and tenants. The commission d\u00e9partementale de conciliation<\/em> is the county-level conciliation board that tries to settle these disputes before court. Keep these six words in mind; the rest of this article uses them constantly.<\/p>\n One boundary before we start. This article covers your life as a tenant: deposits, repairs, notices to vacate and eviction. The purchase of a French property follows different rules and belongs to our conveyancing work, just as setting up a company in France belongs to our business desk. Here, you own the person, not the bricks: residence, daily legal life and the roof over your head.<\/p>\n British tenants usually arrive with English reflexes. In England, as the official guidance states: \u201cYour landlord must put your deposit in a government-approved tenancy deposit scheme (TDP) if you rent your home on an assured periodic tenancy (APT).\u201d<\/a> France has no deposit-protection scheme at all. Your money stays in the landlord’s hands, and the statute controls instead what the landlord may take, what the landlord may deduct and how fast the landlord must pay you back. The controlling text is Law No. 89-462 of 6 July 1989, the statute that governs nearly all residential lettings in France, and its Article 22 is the provision you will quote in every letter.<\/p>\n Article 22 caps the deposit from day one. \u201cLorsqu’un d\u00e9p\u00f4t de garantie est pr\u00e9vu par le contrat de location pour garantir l’ex\u00e9cution de ses obligations locatives par le locataire, il ne peut \u00eatre sup\u00e9rieur \u00e0 un mois de loyer en principal.\u201d<\/a> One month of rent, excluding charges, for an unfurnished letting. For a furnished letting (location meubl\u00e9e<\/em>), which is how many British newcomers start, the cap is higher: \u201cPar d\u00e9rogation \u00e0 l’article 22, le montant du d\u00e9p\u00f4t de garantie exigible par le bailleur est limit\u00e9 \u00e0 deux mois de loyer en principal.\u201d<\/a> Anything above these ceilings is unlawful, and a landlord who demanded three months on signing has no legal basis to keep the excess. Note also that \u201cUn d\u00e9p\u00f4t de garantie ne peut \u00eatre pr\u00e9vu lorsque le loyer est payable d’avance pour une p\u00e9riode sup\u00e9rieure \u00e0 deux mois\u201d<\/a>: where rent is payable quarterly in advance, no deposit may be required at all, unless you later ask to switch to monthly payment.<\/p>\n At the end of the tenancy, the deposit must come back within strict deadlines. \u201cIl est restitu\u00e9 dans un d\u00e9lai maximal de deux mois \u00e0 compter de la remise en main propre, ou par lettre recommand\u00e9e avec demande d’avis de r\u00e9ception, des cl\u00e9s au bailleur ou \u00e0 son mandataire, d\u00e9duction faite, le cas \u00e9ch\u00e9ant, des sommes restant dues au bailleur et des sommes dont celui-ci pourrait \u00eatre tenu, aux lieu et place du locataire, sous r\u00e9serve qu’elles soient d\u00fbment justifi\u00e9es.\u201d<\/a> Two months is the ordinary limit. It falls to one month where the exit inventory matches the entry inventory: \u201cIl est restitu\u00e9 dans un d\u00e9lai maximal d’un mois \u00e0 compter de la remise des cl\u00e9s par le locataire lorsque l’\u00e9tat des lieux de sortie est conforme \u00e0 l’\u00e9tat des lieux d’entr\u00e9e, d\u00e9duction faite, le cas \u00e9ch\u00e9ant, des sommes restant dues au bailleur et des sommes dont celui-ci pourrait \u00eatre tenu, en lieu et place du locataire, sous r\u00e9serve qu’elles soient d\u00fbment justifi\u00e9es.\u201d<\/a> Every deduction must therefore be both owed and properly documented. A lump sum described as \u201ccleaning and repairs\u201d with no invoice proves nothing.<\/p>\n Late payment is punished automatically. \u201cA d\u00e9faut de restitution dans les d\u00e9lais pr\u00e9vus, le d\u00e9p\u00f4t de garantie restant d\u00fb au locataire est major\u00e9 d’une somme \u00e9gale \u00e0 10 % du loyer mensuel en principal, pour chaque p\u00e9riode mensuelle commenc\u00e9e en retard.\u201d<\/a> Ten per cent of one month’s rent for every month of delay, with no need to prove separate loss. The only escape for the landlord is where you failed to give your new address: \u201cCette majoration n’est pas due lorsque l’origine du d\u00e9faut de restitution dans les d\u00e9lais r\u00e9sulte de l’absence de transmission par le locataire de l’adresse de son nouveau domicile.\u201d<\/a> Always send your forwarding address by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt (lettre recommand\u00e9e avec accus\u00e9 de r\u00e9ception<\/em>) when you return the keys. And if the flat is sold while you live there, the buyer inherits the problem, not you: \u201cla restitution du d\u00e9p\u00f4t de garantie incombe au nouveau bailleur.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The comparison of the two inventories decides almost every deposit dispute, and a recent Paris decision shows exactly how judges reason. On 14 April 2026 the Paris Court of Appeal (P\u00f4le 4, Chamber 4, general docket No. 24\/05816) dealt with tenants of a furnished flat who had paid a deposit of 4,000 euros. After a contradictory exit inventory signed on 31 May 2022, the landlords kept 3,396 euros for refurbishment and returned 604 euros. The tenants sued for the balance, the 10 per cent monthly uplift and damages. The court confirmed the first-instance judgment in full and ordered the tenants to pay 1,500 euros under Article 700 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Read the full decision here: Paris Court of Appeal, 14 April 2026, RG 24\/05816<\/a>. Two passages matter for every British tenant. First, \u201cla comparaison entre les \u00e9tats des lieux d’entr\u00e9e et de sortie constitue le mode de preuve privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 pour \u00e9tablir l’existence de d\u00e9gradations imputables au locataire\u201d<\/a>: the comparison between the entry and exit inventories is the preferred evidence of damage attributable to the tenant. Photographs help, but they do not replace that comparison. Second, \u201cdes retenues sont l\u00e9gitimes d\u00e8s lors qu’elles correspondent \u00e0 des d\u00e9gradations exc\u00e9dant l’usure normale et qu’elles sont justifi\u00e9es par des devis ou factures, sans qu’il soit exig\u00e9 que les travaux aient effectivement \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9s avant la restitution\u201d<\/a>: deductions are lawful where they reflect damage beyond ordinary wear and tear (usure normale<\/em>) and are supported by quotes or invoices, even if the works had not actually been carried out before the refund. The lesson cuts both ways. A landlord with a careful entry inventory and itemised invoices will win. A landlord with vague claims and no paperwork will lose, and will pay the 10 per cent uplift on top.<\/p>\n Practical method, then, from the day you move in. Insist on a detailed entry inventory, room by room, with photographs attached and countersigned. Report defects in writing during the first weeks. When you leave, attend the exit inventory in person, write your reservations on the document itself and keep a copy. Return the keys against a receipt or by registered letter, and in the same letter give your new address and ask for restitution within one month, noting the 10 per cent monthly uplift. If the landlord deducts, demand the comparative inventories plus the invoices or quotes for every euro retained. If the reply is silence or a refusal, send a formal demand (mise en demeure<\/em>) by registered letter, then seize the commission d\u00e9partementale de conciliation<\/em>, which hears deposit disputes without charge and often unlocks payment. Failing settlement, the JCP orders restitution plus the uplift. Act within the limitation period: \u201cToutes actions d\u00e9rivant d’un contrat de bail sont prescrites par trois ans \u00e0 compter du jour o\u00f9 le titulaire d’un droit a connu ou aurait d\u00fb conna\u00eetre les faits lui permettant d’exercer ce droit.\u201d<\/a> Three years from the day you knew, or should have known, the facts. Do not let an agency string you along past that point.<\/p>\n Damp patches spreading across the bedroom wall, a boiler that fails every winter, windows that no longer close, cockroaches in the kitchen: British tenants are often told that renting an older French flat means accepting its defects. The statute says the opposite. The Civil Code provides that \u201cle bailleur est oblig\u00e9, par la nature du contrat, et sans qu’il soit besoin d’aucune stipulation particuli\u00e8re de d\u00e9livrer au preneur, s’il s’agit de son habitation principale, un logement d\u00e9cent\u201d<\/a>: by the very nature of the contract, and with no need for any special clause, the landlord must deliver decent housing where the flat is your main home. Article 6 of the 1989 statute spells out the content: \u201cle bailleur est tenu de remettre au locataire un logement d\u00e9cent ne laissant pas appara\u00eetre de risques manifestes pouvant porter atteinte \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 physique ou \u00e0 la sant\u00e9, exempt de toute infestation d’esp\u00e8ces nuisibles et parasites, r\u00e9pondant \u00e0 un niveau de performance minimal au sens de l’article L. 173-1-1 du code de la construction et de l’habitation et dot\u00e9 des \u00e9l\u00e9ments le rendant conforme \u00e0 l’usage d’habitation\u201d<\/a>. No manifest risks to health or safety, no pest infestation, a minimum energy performance, and the fittings that make the place fit to live in. A government decree then lists the precise characteristics of decent housing, so arguments about \u201ccharm of the old\u201d carry no legal weight.<\/p>\n Where the flat falls short, Article 20-1 gives you a direct action: \u201cSi le logement lou\u00e9 ne satisfait pas aux dispositions des premier et deuxi\u00e8me alin\u00e9as de l’article 6, le locataire peut demander au propri\u00e9taire sa mise en conformit\u00e9 sans qu’il soit port\u00e9 atteinte \u00e0 la validit\u00e9 du contrat en cours.\u201d<\/a> You sue for compliance while the lease continues; you do not have to leave to be heard. The judge sets the works and their deadline, and the statute arms the judge with real leverage, as the Court of Cassation recalled: \u201cIl peut r\u00e9duire le montant du loyer ou suspendre, avec ou sans consignation, son paiement et la dur\u00e9e du bail jusqu’\u00e0 l’ex\u00e9cution de ces travaux.\u201d<\/a> The court may reduce the rent or suspend its payment, with or without payment into court, until the works are done. Never stop paying rent on your own initiative, however: only the judge may suspend it, and unilateral withholding exposes you to termination for breach.<\/p>\n Two decisions of the Court of Cassation dated 4 June 2026, both published in the official Bulletin, have considerably strengthened tenants. In the first (No. 24-11.437), the Third Civil Chamber held that \u201cL’obligation de d\u00e9livrance d’un logement d\u00e9cent, continue, est exigible pendant toute la dur\u00e9e du bail.\u201d<\/a> The duty to deliver decent housing is continuous and enforceable for as long as the lease runs. The tenant may therefore, in the court’s words, \u201c\u00e0 poursuivre l’ex\u00e9cution forc\u00e9e en nature de l’obligation de d\u00e9livrance d’un logement d\u00e9cent tant que le manquement perdure, d’autre part \u00e0 obtenir la r\u00e9paration des cons\u00e9quences dommageables de l’inex\u00e9cution par le bailleur de son obligation de d\u00e9livrance d’un logement d\u00e9cent sur une p\u00e9riode de trois ans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dant sa demande en justice\u201d<\/a>: seek forced performance in kind while the breach lasts, and obtain compensation for the harmful consequences of the breach over the three years before going to court. Read it here: Court of Cassation, Third Civil Chamber, 4 June 2026, No. 24-11.437<\/a>. In the second (No. 24-16.993), the court protected the tenant of a studio whose main room measured only 8.84 square metres and had been judicially declared indecent back in 2019. The landlord served notice to vacate so that works could be carried out. The Court of Cassation quashed that approach: \u201cNe peut constituer un motif l\u00e9gitime et s\u00e9rieux de cong\u00e9 la r\u00e9alisation de travaux par le bailleur destin\u00e9s \u00e0 rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 l’ind\u00e9cence du logement dont il avait connaissance lors de la conclusion du bail\u201d<\/a>. Works to fix indecency the landlord already knew about when signing the lease can never justify terminating it. Read it here: Court of Cassation, Third Civil Chamber, 4 June 2026, No. 24-16.993<\/a>.<\/p>\n Energy performance deserves its own warning, because it now decides whether your flat may even be let. The energy performance certificate (diagnostic de performance \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique<\/em>, or DPE) rates housing from A to G. Since 1 January 2025, the worst-rated homes are simply off the rental market. As the Ministry for the Environment states: \u201c\u00c0 compter du 1er janvier 2025, conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 la loi Climat & R\u00e9silience, les logements passoires thermiques class\u00e9s G au DPE seront interdits \u00e0 la location.\u201d<\/a> The ban applies to new leases and, on renewal or tacit extension, to current ones. If your landlord lets you a G-rated flat today, or pressures you to leave so the flat can be \u201crenovated\u201d while nothing is done, that context matters twice: the dwelling likely fails the minimum energy criterion of decent housing, and any notice built on the landlord’s own breach is fragile, as the 4 June 2026 rulings show. The statute now writes the energy scale directly into decent housing: \u201c1\u00b0 A compter du 1er janvier 2025, entre la classe A et la classe F\u201d<\/a>, and \u201cLes logements qui ne r\u00e9pondent pas aux crit\u00e8res pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s aux \u00e9ch\u00e9ances fix\u00e9es sont consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme non d\u00e9cents.\u201d<\/a> Ask for the DPE before signing anything; the landlord must have it drawn up and shown to candidates.<\/p>\n Method again, step by step. From the first signs of damp, cold, infestation or danger, notify the landlord or agency by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, describing each defect, asking for dated remedial works and keeping copies of everything, including medical certificates if your health suffers and photographs with dates. Have the defects recorded by a commissaire de justice<\/em> (the court officer formerly called huissier de justice<\/em>), whose report carries strong evidential weight. Request the tenant-protection association or the commission d\u00e9partementale de conciliation<\/em> to intervene. If nothing moves, petition the JCP for compliance works, a rent reduction and damages for the months of substandard living, relying on the three-year window the Court of Cassation confirmed. Keep paying the rent meanwhile, unless the judge suspends it. Tenants who withhold rent unilaterally regularly lose the sympathy of the court and hand the landlord the breach motive discussed below.<\/p>\n The cong\u00e9<\/em> is the letter every tenant dreads, and British tenants often misread it. It is not an eviction order, and it is not the end of the story. It is a notice, served before the lease ends, by which the landlord asks you to leave, and the statute polices both its reasons and its form. Article 15 of the 1989 statute sets the closed list of permitted motives: \u201cLorsque le bailleur donne cong\u00e9 \u00e0 son locataire, ce cong\u00e9 doit \u00eatre justifi\u00e9 soit par sa d\u00e9cision de reprendre ou de vendre le logement, soit par un motif l\u00e9gitime et s\u00e9rieux, notamment l’inex\u00e9cution par le locataire de l’une des obligations lui incombant.\u201d<\/a> Three doors only: repossession (reprise<\/em>) so the landlord or close family can live there, sale (vente<\/em>), or a genuine and serious ground such as breach by the tenant. And the notice period protects you: \u201cLe d\u00e9lai de pr\u00e9avis applicable au cong\u00e9 est de six mois lorsqu’il \u00e9mane du bailleur.\u201d<\/a> Six months from a landlord, against one to three months when you give notice yourself. A cong\u00e9 received five months before the end of the lease is simply ineffective, whatever its motive.<\/p>\n Each motive carries its own formal conditions, and landlords get them wrong surprisingly often. For repossession, the statute demands proof of a genuine plan: \u201cLorsqu’il donne cong\u00e9 \u00e0 son locataire pour reprendre le logement, le bailleur justifie du caract\u00e8re r\u00e9el et s\u00e9rieux de sa d\u00e9cision de reprise.\u201d<\/a> The notice must name who will live there and on what basis, and the intention is assessed on the day the notice is served. The Court of Cassation confirmed on 3 July 2025 (No. 24-11.504) that judges examine the reality of that intention concretely: a landlord who, approaching retirement with falling income, genuinely planned to occupy one of the flats owned was held to have shown, in the court’s words, \u201cle caract\u00e8re r\u00e9el et s\u00e9rieux de l’intention du bailleur, au jour de la d\u00e9livrance du cong\u00e9, de reprendre le logement pour l’habiter \u00e0 titre de r\u00e9sidence principale\u201d<\/a>. Read it here: Court of Cassation, Third Civil Chamber, 3 July 2025, No. 24-11.504<\/a>. Conversely, a landlord who never moves in, re-lets at a higher rent or cannot explain who was supposed to live there faces annulment of the notice and damages. If you suspect a sham, collect evidence early: advertisements for the flat, new occupants, electoral roll entries, statements from neighbours.<\/p>\n For sale, the notice must contain the deal itself: \u201cLorsqu’il est fond\u00e9 sur la d\u00e9cision de vendre le logement, le cong\u00e9 doit, \u00e0 peine de nullit\u00e9, indiquer le prix et les conditions de la vente projet\u00e9e.\u201d<\/a> Price and conditions of the planned sale, on pain of nullity. The reason for that strictness is your right of first refusal (droit de pr\u00e9emption<\/em>): the notice operates as an offer, and you may buy on the stated terms instead of leaving, within the statutory acceptance period. A cong\u00e9 pour vendre without a price, with a fanciful price that changes a month later, or served after the landlord has already promised the flat to someone else, is vulnerable. For alleged breach (motif l\u00e9gitime et s\u00e9rieux<\/em>), typically unpaid rent or antisocial behaviour, the landlord must prove facts serious enough to justify ending the lease; isolated late payment once regularised rarely suffices, and judges regularly grant payment schedules instead of termination.<\/p>\n Above all, contesting a cong\u00e9 is your right, and exercising it cannot be held against you. In that same 3 July 2025 ruling, the Court of Cassation quashed an appeal decision that had ordered the tenant to pay 3,000 euros for so-called abusive resistance merely because she had fought the notice. The court recalled the Civil Code baseline, \u201ctout fait quelconque de l’homme, qui cause \u00e0 autrui un dommage, oblige celui par la faute duquel il est arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 le r\u00e9parer\u201d<\/a>, then held: \u201cEn statuant ainsi, sans caract\u00e9riser un comportement fautif de la locataire de nature \u00e0 faire d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rer en abus l’exercice de son droit de contester la validit\u00e9 du cong\u00e9 d\u00e9livr\u00e9 par le bailleur, la cour d’appel a viol\u00e9 le texte susvis\u00e9.\u201d<\/a> Without a proven fault turning the challenge into abuse, punishing the tenant for defending herself violates the law. Do not let a landlord’s solicitor frighten you out of court with threats of damages for \u201cwasting everyone’s time\u201d. Check the notice instead: proper service by registered letter or court officer, exact expiry date, six months, stated and genuine motive, price and conditions for a sale, identity of the future occupant for a repossession. Then answer in writing, concisely, point by point, and bring the dispute to the JCP if the landlord will not withdraw. The burden of justifying the cong\u00e9 lies on the landlord, never on you.<\/p>\n Even with a valid cong\u00e9 or a court order, nobody may put you on the street overnight. French law surrounds eviction (expulsion<\/em>) with successive shields, and each one buys time or ends the procedure. The first shield is the two-month rule. Once a court officer serves the order to leave (commandement de quitter les lieux<\/em>), the clock starts: \u201cSi l’expulsion porte sur un lieu habit\u00e9 par la personne expuls\u00e9e ou par tout occupant de son chef, elle ne peut avoir lieu qu’\u00e0 l’expiration d’un d\u00e9lai de deux mois qui suit le commandement, sans pr\u00e9judice des dispositions des articles L. 412-3 \u00e0 L. 412-7\u201d<\/a>. Two clear months before any physical eviction from an inhabited home, with Articles L.412-3 to L.412-7, expressly saved by the text, allowing the judge to grant you further delays to leave. Use those two months actively: regularise arrears where possible, apply for social assistance, document rehousing efforts and instruct counsel. Judges reward tenants who show concrete steps; they penalise passivity.<\/p>\n The second shield is the winter truce (tr\u00eave hivernale<\/em>), which surprises many British tenants by its sheer force. \u201cil est sursis \u00e0 toute mesure d’expulsion non ex\u00e9cut\u00e9e \u00e0 la date du 1er novembre de chaque ann\u00e9e jusqu’au 31 mars de l’ann\u00e9e suivante\u201d<\/a>: every non-executed eviction measure is suspended from 1 November to 31 March. A final court order, even one that has become definitive, cannot be enforced in that window, except in narrow statutory cases such as rehousing secured or squats of another person’s home. The truce does not erase the debt or the order; it suspends enforcement. Landlords know this calendar perfectly, which is why pressure often intensifies in September and October. If your two-month period or your court-ordered delay runs into November, winter protects you until spring, and spring gives the judge a full picture of your good faith.<\/p>\n The third shield is the judge’s power to stagger and suspend. Before any eviction for arrears, the procedure passes through demands, a summons and a hearing, and at the hearing the JCP may grant payment schedules over up to several years, suspend the termination clause while you pay, and add time to quit the premises. Bring your accounts, proof of income and benefits, evidence of partial payments, medical or family circumstances and any rehousing applications. Where the arrears come from a sudden event, illness, loss of a contract, separation, explain it with documents. Where the flat itself is defective, link the two disputes: a landlord claiming thousands in arrears while ignoring a judicially recognised damp problem impresses no court. And remember the boundary that protects you absolutely: only a commissaire de justice<\/em> acting on a court order, with the authorisation required for forced entry, may remove you. A landlord who changes the locks, removes the door, cuts power or water, or dumps your belongings on the pavement commits an unlawful private eviction (voie de fait<\/em>), which the judge sanctions firmly and swiftly. Call the police, have the facts recorded and seize the judge at once.<\/p>\n A Paris and \u00cele-de-France note, since so many British tenants live there. Deposit, decency and eviction disputes in the capital go to the JCP division of the Paris judicial court (tribunal judiciaire de Paris<\/em>), whose caseload means early action matters: file before the situation hardens. The Paris county conciliation commission handles thousands of deposit and works disputes yearly and is worth trying before suing. Rents and agency practices in Paris are closely policed, inventories are scrutinised line by line, and winter-truce enforcement involves the prefecture (pr\u00e9fecture de police<\/em>) for the capital. Keep every Parisian proof in French administrative form: registered letters, receipts (quittances de loyer<\/em>), the lease, both inventories and the DPE. A tidy file in the French format wins cases in Paris faster than any eloquent English explanation.<\/p>\n Renting in France as a British tenant after Brexit means playing a game whose rules, for once, favour the occupier: a capped and strictly refundable deposit with an automatic 10 per cent monthly uplift for delay; a continuous, judicially enforceable right to decent housing with damages over three years; notices to vacate confined to three justified motives with six months’ warning; and evictions gated by a two-month floor, a winter truce and the judge’s power to grant time. The latest rulings confirm the direction: deductions need comparative inventories and invoices, indecency known at signing can never justify a cong\u00e9, and contesting a notice is a right, not an abuse. Your part of the bargain is method: detailed inventories, registered letters, a forwarding address, rent paid until the judge says otherwise, and early challenges to defective notices. Do that, and the French system will do the rest.<\/p>\n If your deposit is blocked, your flat is unfit to live in, or you have received a cong\u00e9 or an eviction order, speak to a lawyer before the next deadline passes. Our firm offers a telephone consultation within 48 hours with a lawyer of the firm, telephone consultation: 80 EUR TTC. Call +33 6 46 60 58 22<\/a> or write via our contact page<\/a>. We receive clients in Paris and across \u00cele-de-France, as well as British tenants elsewhere in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" British tenant in France? 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A. How to recover your d\u00e9p\u00f4t de garantie after you hand back the keys<\/h3>\n
B. How to force the landlord to provide decent housing and pay for the harm<\/h3>\n
II. How to answer a notice to vacate and stop an eviction in France<\/h2>\n
A. How to challenge a cong\u00e9 ordering you to leave for a sale, repossession or alleged breach<\/h3>\n
B. How to stop an eviction: the two-month rule, the winter truce and extra time from the judge<\/h3>\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n
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