France is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention: a single apostille, affixed in Switzerland by the chancellery of the issuing canton, makes your Swiss document valid there — no embassy, no consulate, no further stamp.
Order an apostille →Always in the country that issued the document — so for your Swiss diploma, extract or certificate, at the state chancellery of the issuing canton, or at the Federal Chancellery for federal documents. We route it; you just name the canton.
Diplomas and transcripts for jobs and universities, civil-status records for marriages and residence, criminal-record extracts for visas, commercial-register extracts and powers of attorney for business.
Standard 1–2 business days plus delivery; same-day express available. Registered Swiss mail included — or DHL straight to France (CHF 140 worldwide, CHF 90 in Europe).
A document from Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel or Jura is already in French and goes to a French mairie, prefecture or notaire exactly as it is — no translation, no added cost. From a German-speaking or Ticinese canton you will need a certified French translation. In the bilingual cantons of Bern, Fribourg and Valais you can simply ask for the French version and skip the step entirely.
French administrations frequently ask for a document issued within the last three months, especially for marriage and nationality files. That clock runs on the document, not on the apostille — an apostille from last week on a certificate from last year does not reset it. Order both close together.