I do not know how to get Sky directly in France but you can choose a French cable company that provides the same channels. Noos for example has BBC world, CNN... CanalSat has got BBC world, Bloomberg, CNN, EuroNews, CNBC, Discovery, National Geographic, BBC Prime,...

On the other hand (and it's probably the easiest way), you can take your Sky box with you indeed (you might have to pay with an English address, but as they've got 500 000 English people having a house in France they might be used to have contracts with French addresses) and find a guy who can set up properly the dish to point to the satellite.

 

Well to be honnest, for all those kiddy channels, you better take your Sky box ;-) They will have Disney TV in French anyway (I put the link with the channel pages in my previous message on the name of the packages) and you can take your DVDs...

I think we've got several discussions about TV standards already on the forum. France is Secam while Britain is Pal I. However all modern TV should be multi-standards (check in the product guide).

By the way I moved your message within the forum Repatriation.