The Canadian Embassy in France is the main diplomatic mission of Canada to France. It is located at 35 avenue Montaigne, in the 8th arrondissement. The ambassador resides at 135 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Paris is also home to Canada's permanent delegations to UNESCO and the OECD, which are housed separately, and the Quebec government's delegation, which is also in a separate building.

The embassy is the oldest "foreign" posting in the Canadian foreign service (in its early history the Canadian government did not view the United Kingdom as a "foreign" country).

The history of Canada's presence in Paris goes back to 1882 and was actually started by the action of the province of Quebec. The provincial government appointed Hector Fabre, a former journalist and senator be its representative in France. The federal government took advantage of this presence to name him Canada's "agent" and later "commissioner" in France, although he held no diplomatic rank or status. Fabre was theoretically supposed to report to the Canadian High Commission in London, but in practise had little oversight.

Canada ( /ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km² (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.

The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.

France (English ⁱ/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km² (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km² / 4,383,000 sq mi).

Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.

Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur, born in 1967 in Paris.

Following a troubled schooling^{[citation needed]}, he creates his first company, Escalade Industrie, in 1989 at the age of 22. The company grows well and reaches dozens of employees after 6 months only. However, he decides to quit after one year, apparently because of a disagreement with his associates.^{[citation needed]}

He then creates Absolut Design in 1991, along with Clément Bataille. In 8 years, the business of the company mainly focuses on public transportation, designing the streetcar of Bordeaux, the garbage cans of the subway in Paris, etc. In 2000, he sells what has become the Absolut Group to Euro RSCG.

In 2000, he launches Musiwap, quickly renamed Musiwave. In 2002, Musiwave becomes the first company in the world to offer "hifi" ringtones, i.e. no more made of synthesized harmonies like in polyphonic ringtones, but made from the initial song recording. This very year, the company also offers downloads of CD quality songs . Thanks to these innovations, the company develops and is finally sold to Openwave, for US$139m in January 2006. In December 2007, Openwave sells it to Microsoft.