Making DVDs for France?

I know how to burn NTSC or PAL DVDs in iDVD or DVD STUDIO PRO , but I don't know what will work in France. I hear that it uses SECAM, but is that the same as USA's NTSC? PLEASE HELP!

I have found that you don't have to do anything special. You don't even need to target PAL or SECAM formats. I was fine just doing my standard 16:9 iMovie to iDVD workflow, never thinking about NTSC etc.
FYI, most recent LCD TVs there accept NTSC RCA signals, no problem. So put that movie on your ipod or do video out from your laptop.

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