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Foreign student wants to open a bank account in France. Which bank should I choose?

I am 21 years old and I will probably end up staying in France for the rest of my life once I finish university there. I will be living in Paris.

I've been looking at LCL, Crédit Agricole, Banque Populaire, BNP Paribas and Caisse d'Epargne. Can anyone recommend a good account for a student to open at one of these banks?

However, the bank system in France confuses the hell out of me. I live in Australia and we have like.. 4 major banks, and each are completely separate. Some banks in France seem to be connected and it's really confusing! Especially everything being in all French, I can handle it with most websites that I've been consulting for when I move there but banks are on a whole new level.
@Zafir: I already know all of this, I want to know what account to open once I'm there so I don't have to make 100 decisions in a week.
and I don't need a work visa to work there while I'm on a student visa.

While I'm not especially knowledgeable about banks - I had a Crédit du Nord account for a while, followed by BNP Paribas, but wouldn't particularly recommend either - if you're 21 and a student, I'm assuming you're probably not loaded with cash. If that's indeed the case, you might consider opening an account with the postal service, "La Banque Postale", because from what I gather it's a little bit like a credit union, i.e. the penalties aren't as severe if you mess up by writing a bad check or overdrafting your account for any reason. Then again... I just checked the Wikipedia blurb, which says "In 2010 the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven banks, including La Banque Postale, the sum of 384,900,000 Euros for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to 'Exchanges Check-Image' electronic transfer." So you might want to proceed with caution there after all... Anyway, here's the information if you're interested:
Wikipedia blurb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banque_postale
Banque Postale website: https://www.labanquepostale.fr/index.html

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