Welcome to the Community @rogerz
I cannot offer advice in France, but in the USA most if not all the card payment systems on the bowsers require a US ‘zip code’ (postal code) before a card will be accepted. Those with foreign cards are required to first go inside, prepay or leave their card, place dependent, fill, and go back in for the attendant to process the charge on the inside terminal.
There are also posts in various discussions whereby some places only have 4 digit PINS while others use (and require) 6 to be entered. leading or trailing 00 seems to work locale dependent, but get it wrong 3 times and your card is disabled by your issuer.
This is another aspect of
where the problems with international cards have not been discussed, yet.
