In France, the following acts may or must be realised in the authentic form:
* during the testator’s lifetime:
- Will: notary (if authentic, sealed or international will)
- Gift between spouses, shared gift: notary (except gifts by hand)
* after the testator’s death:
- Civil status documents (birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate): civil registrar
- Acceptance of succession: notary
- Renunciation of succession: notary or clerk of the court of first instance
- Act of notoriety: notary
- European Certificate of Succession: notary
- Inventory of the estate involved in the succession: notary or auctioneer, if applicable
- Real estate certificate: notary
- Issue of bequest: notary
- Act of partition: notary
