Article 677 of the French General Tax Code
Subject to special provisions, the following are subject to proportional or progressive taxation: 1° Transfers, either inter vivos or by death, of ownership or usufruct of movable or immovable property, as well as court decisions and deeds establishing or recording inter vivos the constitution of rights in rem in immovable property referred to in a of 1° of amended article 28 of decree no. 55-22 of 4 January 1955 ;…