IELTS Testing Centres in France
In total, there are 8 test locations in France that offer IELTS exams. You can select the one which is closer to you.
There are two types of test format available for IELTS exams: paper-based or computer-delivered. For both formats, the Speaking Section is done with a real IELTS examiner on a face-to-face basis.
Marseille, France
British Council test location – Marseille
Street Address: Université Aix-Marseille, Espace La Cannebière 110, 114 La Canebière, Marseille, 13001
Telephone Number: 149557300
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
| IELTS Test Dates | Testing Locations | Types of Exam | Registration Fee (EUR) |
| 2020/08/29 | IELTS Academic | 239 |
Bordeaux, France
British Council test location – Bordeaux
Street Address: ENSTBB, 125 rue de Bethmann, Bordeaux, 33000
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
Lille, France
British Council test location – Lille
Street Address: Université Catholique de Lille, 60, Boulevard Vauban, Lille, 59016
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
Nice, France
British Council test location – Nice
Street Address: International House Nice, 27 rue Rossini, Nice, 06000
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
Strasbourg, France
British Council test location – Strasbourg
Street Address: CECI Formation, 202 Avenue de Colmar, Strasbourg, 67100
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
Paris, France
British Council test location – Paris
Street Address: Paris Nord 2, 69 ter, rue de la Chapelle, Paris, 75018
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
Nantes, France
British Council test location – Nantes
Street Address: Université de Nantes, Faculté des Langues et Cultures Etrangères, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, Nantes, 44312
Telephone Number: 149557300
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
Lyon, France
British Council test location – Lyon
Street Address: ECEMA, 181-203 avenue Jean Jaurès, Lyon, 69007
Telephone Number: 149557300
Contact Email: ielts@britishcouncil.fr
Website URL: https://www.britishcouncil.fr/ielts
IELTS Exam Fee in France
According to the test maker – British Council, the current cost to take IELTS test in France is 239 EUR.
List of cities in France where you can take the IELTS tests
- Bordeaux
- Lille
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Nantes
- Nice
- Paris
- Strasbourg
More about France
History
Early humans settled in what is now France. In the Iron Age, what was then Gaul belonged to the core area of the Celts until the Romans found it in the 1st century BC. Conquered. The name France is derived from the Germanic Franks who populated the country in late antiquity. Charlemagne created a Frankish empire that stretched from the North Sea to Italy. France eventually developed from the western part. In the Middle Ages it was based on feudalism (feudalism). Important monasteries and cathedral schools emerged between the 10th and 13th centuries, and the cities flourished as economic and cultural centers. The kings strengthened their power from the Île-de-France around Paris at the expense of the territorial lords and extended their influence further to southern Europe. 1309–76 and during the Western Schism (1378–1417) the Pope resided in Avignon. After the Hundred Years War, England largely had to give up its property in France.
In the early modern period (from around 1500) France rose to become a great power in constant conflict with the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs. The Reformation led to religious wars between Catholics and Protestants, the Huguenots (until 1598). Absolutism solidified under the kings of the Bourbon dynasty, which reached its climax under the “Sun King” Louis XIV . France became a colonial power in the 18th century. The French Revolution of 1789 abolished the monarchy and the class society, in which the aristocracy and the Catholic Church had many privileges. It created the modern nation-state with basic democratic rights for its citizens. Napoleon I , Emperor of the French from 1804, subordinated Europe to French supremacy in many wars up to 1815.
After the July Revolution of 1830 France became a constitutional monarchy, after the February Revolution of 1848 it became a republic again for a short time. Napoleon III established the Second Empire (1852–70), which fell after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. In the Third Republic a party democracy was formed with a strict separation of state and church. In the First World War France fought against Germany. Human losses and destruction were great. Left-wing governments laid the foundations for the French welfare state in 1936–38.
After the defeat in 1940 by Hitler’s Germany in World War II, France was occupied. In the unoccupied part, a remainder of the state that was dependent on Germany was created with the capital Vichy. The Fourth Republic was formed in 1944 from the resistance of the Resistance to the Vichy regime and the German occupation. However, it was wiped out by internal political conflicts, frequent changes of government and the wars of independence in the colonies, especially in Southeast Asia and Algeria.
The Fifth Republic was established in 1958 under President C. de Gaulle . France reconciled itself with Germany, the enemy of the war, and from the mid-1970s became an engine of European unification. In the 1980s, the government began to hand over powers of the central state to the departments and regions. France is particularly challenged today by the demands of globalization, the dissolution of the traditional party system, the contrast between town and country and the integration of immigrants and their descendants. Serious terrorist attacks with an Islamist background, especially in Paris in 2015 and Nice in 2016, prompted the imposition of a state of emergency by the end of 2017 and stricter security laws.