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 |
A20 |
L’Occitane |
A21 |
La Rocade Minière |
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, from the many UK cars 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 A35 is also known as the Autoroute des Cigognes
- the storks. This area is 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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |