John:

Allen Aigen's recommendation is great if your fossils happen to be from the
Eocene of the Paris Basin.  However, you did not mention any age or
formation.  If neither is known you have a problem.  France has excellent
deposits of Paleozoic and Mesozoic mollusks as well as almost all ages of
Tertiary.  Cossmann alone wrote volumes (literally) on the Burdigalian
Miocene, the Paris Basin Eocene, etc.  If you can find a set of the current
journal Cossmanniana you will find a number of excellent illustarted
articlers on some of these formations.

Regards,

dick
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