| A1 |
Autoroute du Nord |
| A4 |
Autoroute de l’Est |
| A5 |
L’Orientale
possibly because this motorway runs on a route parallel
to that of the Orient Express train. |
| A6 |
Autoroute du Soleil |
| A7 |
Autoroute du Soleil : of the Sun |
| A8 |
La Provençale |
| A9 |
La Languedocienne - La Catalane |
| A10 |
L’Aquitaine - the longest autoroute, 565 km |
| A11 |
L’Océane |
| A13 |
Autoroute de Normandie |
| A14 |
“la nouvelle autoroute de
l’ouest”:
the new motorway of the West |
| A16 |
L’Européenne
(the European).
So called because it connects Paris with various European destinations such as Belgium, as well as Calais, a gateway to England. |
| A20 |
L’Occitane
as it leads to the region Occitanie in south-west France. |
| A21 |
La Rocade Minière (mining road)
The A21 crosses the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, the largest mining stub in France. |
| A25 |
Autoroute des Ornières:
ornieres means ‘ruts’. The
road surface is not good and the A25 has a 110
kmh maximum speed limit as a result. |
| A26 |
Autoroute des Anglais:
of the English, as many UK cars are to be seen
coming from the Calais ferry port. |
| A30 |
Autoroute de la Vallée de la Fensch |
| A31 |
Lorraine-Bourgogne
This motorway also has two joke nicknames: of the
Carambolages - the pile-ups, and des caravane belges
- Belgian caravans. You are warned. |
| A35 |
Voie Rapide du Piémont des
Vosges (VRPV):
Piémont des Vosges rapid road.
The l'Alsacienne or autoroute des Cigognes (Storks' motorway) passes through the region of Alsace, where thr stork is a cultural symbo, an area known for its many stork
colonies. |
| A36 |
La Comtoise:
going through the Comté-Franc region of north-east
France |
| A39 |
Autoroute Verte: green motorway |
| A40 |
Autoroute Blanche / Autoroute des
Titans:
White motorway; this motorway runs to the titanic,
white alps |
| A41 |
L’Alpine |
| A43 |
Autoroute de la Maurienne |
| A51 |
Autoroute du Val de Durance / des Alpes |
| A55 |
Autoroute du littoral: the coast motorway |
| A61 |
Autoroute des Deux Mers:
of the two seas - the Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
| A62 |
Autoroute des Deux Mers |
| A63 |
Autoroute de la Côte Basque:
of the Basque coast |
| A64 |
La Pyrénéenne |
| A65 |
Autoroute de Gascogne |
| A66 |
L’Ariègeoise |
| A68 |
La Tarnaise
Also known as the autoroute du Pastel, it leads to Albi and to the Lauragais region where woad was cultivated to produce pastel. |
| A71 |
L’Arverne: the region north of the Auvergne
region |
| A75 |
La Méridienne |
| A77 |
Autoroute de l'Arbre: of the tree |
| A79 |
La Cévenole |
| A81 |
L’Armoricaine |
| A82 |
La Bretonne |
| A84 |
Autoroute des Estuaires. It is part of the main route between Belgium and Spain, avoiding Paris. |
| A86 |
Périphérique d'Île
de France:
Ile de France ring road (circling Paris) |
| A89 |
La Transeuropéenne, Autoroute
des Présidents:
Transeuropean, or the Presidents’ motorway Also
known as the empty autoroute because it passes no
other major cities between Bordeaux and Clermont-Ferrand. |
| A104 |
La Francilienne
one of Paris's beltways, is also known as La Francilienne because it circles the region of Ile-de-France. |
| A400 |
Autoroute du Chablais |
| A837 |
Autoroute des Oiseaux: of the birds |
A16,
A28,
A13,
A84,
RN137,
A83,
A84
A10,
A63 |
Autoroute des Estuaires, of the estuaries,
once finished, will be a series of motorways linking
Dunkerque with Bayonne [and also Belgium with Spain],
without passing through Paris. The estuaries are
those of the Somme, the Seine, the Loire and the
Gironde. The RN137 will be upgraded to an extension
of the A84. |
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