THE NEW FRENCH CONTRACT LAW A GUIDE FOR PRACTITIONERS1 1. To facilitate the use of this Guide by French practitioners working in the English language, we thought it useful to make available an English version. This is a working translation from the French and we hope that we will therefore be excused for any infelicities of expression. We have followed closely the French version. We have not reproduced the footnotes, except for some of them (important references). We undertook to write this English part ourselves and in doing so, we relied on the wording of the official translation (inserted in this book). We are very grateful to Mariam Hawath, Frédérique Sauvage, Juliette Fauvarque, Yijia Lu for their reviews of this English version.