The annual inflation rate in France slowed to 2.3% on March 2024, from 3.6% in February, and lower than the revised forecast of 2.6%, preliminary figures showed. There was a broad based slowdown in the consumer prices, including food (3% vs 3.2% in February ), services (3% vs 3.2% ), tobacco (10.7% vs 18.7% ), energy (3.4% vs 4.3%) and manufactured goods (0.1% vs 0.4% ),