If service of the judgment has not been made on the person of the accused, the objection must be lodged within the following time limits, which run from service of the judgment made at the domicile, bailiff’s office or public prosecutor’s office: ten days if the accused resides in metropolitan France, one month if he resides outside this territory.
However, if the judgment is one of conviction and if it does not result, either from the notice of delivery of the registered letter or the receipt provided for in the articles 557 and 558, or of any act of execution, or of the notice given in accordance with Article 560, that the accused has had knowledge of service, the opposition both as regards civil interests and the criminal conviction remains admissible.
In the cases referred to in the previous paragraph, the time limit for opposition runs from the day on which the accused had such knowledge.