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Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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>I am often using a large mail adresses database, with addresses mainly in
>France but also in Europe and in the rest of the world. My problem is to know
>the "good" presentation for these addresses.
>
>I would like to know the description of the addresses, and the placement of
>the components. If possible give explanation on the meaning of zip-code, or
>abbreviations. I will describe it for France to give you a skeleton.
>
> [...]
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>Syntax :
><sexe> : Monsieur (M.) or Madame (Mme) or Mademoiselle (Melle)
No. It should be ``Mlle''
><street> : we put the number before the name of the street
><zip-code> : two first digits are the number-key of the departement
> (same as the two last digits on our car-plate)
> three other digits : a post office key for the town
> = 5 digits
>
>Vocabulary and explanations :
>
>"departement" : it is an administrative area. We have 95 departements in
No. We have 96 metropolitan departements (Corsica is now 2 departments).
We have also 4 overseas departments.
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