A:AnswerOnce you purchase this laptop, you should be able to mail it to where ever you want, subject to export restrictions. I don't think there are any for France, so you should be fine.
A:AnswerNo, there is no replacement battery that I know of. They made it kind of like a Mac. There are screws on the bottom so I'm sure you can access it if you needed to.
A:AnswerIt was $1199 for a day yesterday Sunday 7/24. I was ready to pull the trigger this morning but then BB switched it back to $1299. So they only had $1199 for a short day.