00331431XXXX8

You have to put 00 in front (or +) just like any other international number

No actually it'd be:


From the US: 011 33 1 431XXXX8

The 011 is to get outside of the US and Canada. 33 is the country code for France. 1 is the code for Parisian area and the following 8 digits are the number. Someone else in Paris would have different 8 digits at th end. Edit: Unless it were a cell phone number and then it's preceded by a 6 and not a 1 (or 2, or 3, or 4 or 5).
00 is used for international calls from outside of the US, like Europe.

Unless....

Uhh, call the operator and have her place the call for you.

It's not exactly some kind of secret formula. I just explained it. But for some reason Americans seem to have trouble making international phone calls. Maybe that's for the better...

The real question is, why would you want to call someone in France?

:ducks:

Nah, I've got a friend there from high school I should call at some point. Good info to have.

Matt Fahrenbacher

You learn something everday. (Just made some random French person's phone ring once)

^ mmmkay

Heeeeeere France...

Why did she surprise you by flying to France?
Everything ok?

Sexist bastard!

Thanks guys turns out it was 011 33 then the 10 digit number, thanks a million guys.

I use Embassy World's website to search out the country calling codes and international access codes. There are lots of similar sites but EW is cool for having a way you can specify what country you are calling from and thus get the appropriate int'l access code (e.g., 011 from the US and 00 from most of the rest of the world).

Nah, ducks are not a good reason to call to France

-t

For God's sake, don't use a German accent when you call!! Talk about an international incident-the entire Paris telephone exchange surrendering! Oh, the horror!!

I have never called france before, but I figured they would probably fine you for speaking english, like they do with store signs in quebec.

Actually, I did that once when I had to make a call overseas to confirm a reservation and my local telephone company was having switch problems that prevented me from dialing direct.
Did you know that my two minute operator-assisted call cost something like $20?

After tht, I became a big fan of those pre-paid calling cards... A lot of them will work internationally, you just burn through your minutes faster. I bought a $10 card, made all my calls to Europe (and back to the states for the week I was there), and I still have $6+ left!

You never called France, did you?

No, actually I haven't. I don't know anybody in France, nor do I have any business dealings with France. I have called most other European countries before though. I call to Europe all the time, just not France, for whatever reason.

France is NOT Canada !
It's even worse

Speaking english ? Forget it !

-t

Screw that, I went to Quebec last Nov. visiting my cuz, and while at a golf course I got harrased by the starter for speaking english, my cuz took care of it and told me to forget about it. Then after finishing the front 9 I went in to grab a snickers or hot dog and the lady behind the counter started yelling at me, my cuz saw this and started screaming back at her. Then in broken english the lady looks at me and says "in my country, we speak French and only French", I put that behind me again. Then on the way home my cuz wanted to grab some chicken to eat so we went to KFC or should I say PFK (poullet frit kentuck or something like that if I recall correctly), and after his order I told him to order me something and he insisted I order it, so I did and again I get heckled for speaking english. From now on I'll stick to asking nice people to order stuff for me.

Ditto.

You're kidding, they have translated Kentucky Fried Chicken?!!

I knew someone would do it.

I find this a bit strange. In Paris nobody hassled me at all...I'd try and say what I was saying in my broken and terrible French (took Spanish in school) and then they'd chuckle and speak to me in English-everyone was very polite about it.

What's up with that, Quebec? Nationalism (or in this case, regionalism) gone awry is a bad thing...just ask the Americans.

I think anywhere you go, you get more props for attempting the native language than blithely expecting everyone to know english.

So, broken french/spanish/italian/mongolian will get you further than english, even if yes, you end up speaking english.