Section VI: Place of service.

Notifications shall be made at the place where the addressee resides if he is a natural person. However, when made to a person, notification is valid wherever it is delivered, including the place of work. Service is also validly made at the elected domicile where the law so allows or requires.

Any party residing abroad has the option of declaring to the registry of the court seised, as soon as the proceedings are instituted, that he elects domicile in France in order to be made the addressee of: 1° Des envois, remises, et notifications des actes de procédure, des pièces, avis, avertissements ou convocations, des rapports et des procès-verbaux, lorsque la partie n’a pas chargé une personne demeurant en France de…

Notification intended for a legal person governed by private law or a public establishment of an industrial or commercial nature shall be made at the place of its establishment. Failing such a place, it shall be made in the person of one of its members authorised to receive it.

Notifications intended for the public prosecutor and those that must be made to the public prosecutor’s office shall be made, as the case may be, to the public prosecutor’s office of the court before which the claim is brought, to that of the court that gave judgment or to that of the last known address. If there is no public prosecutor’s office near the court, notification shall be made to…