The French TGV is a perfect combination of comfort, convenientent, speed and the latest technology. It is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of the SNCF: the French national rail operator.

The idea of the TGV was first proposed in the 1960s, after Japan had begun construction of the Shinkansen (also known as the bullet train) in 1959. In 1976 the government agreed to fund the first line. By the mid-1990s the trains were so popular that SNCF president Louis Gallois declared the TGV as "The train that saved French railways.