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Article 678 of the French Civil Code

No person may have straight views or windows of appearance, nor balconies or other similar projections on the enclosed or unenclosed inheritance of his neighbour, unless there is a distance of nineteen decimetres between the wall where they are made and the said inheritance, unless the land or the part of the land on which the view is exercised is already encumbered, for the benefit of the land which benefits from it, by an easement of passage preventing the erection of constructions.

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Article 678

On ne peut avoir des vues droites ou fenêtres d’aspect, ni balcons ou autres semblables saillies sur l’héritage clos ou non clos de son voisin, s’il n’y a dix-neuf décimètres de distance entre le mur où on les pratique et ledit héritage, à moins que le fonds ou la partie du fonds sur lequel s’exerce la vue ne soit déjà grevé, au profit du fonds qui en bénéficie, d’une servitude de passage faisant obstacle à l’édification de constructions.

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