Read the text to fulfil the tasks. The first French customs service was called the General Firm (French: Ferme générale) and operated under the monarchy

The first French customs service was called the General Firm (French: Ferme générale) and operated under the monarchy. During the revolutionary period, a military customs service was formed, which provided a customs service but also fought in major wars such as the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.

The military customs service fought in the early part of the Second World War but was disbanded in 1940 after the French defeat and was never reconstituted as a military service. Nonetheless small units of customs men from customs posts in French Indochina fought against the Japanese as guerilla units until the end of the war.

The Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes (French: Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects, DGDDI) is a French law enforcement agency responsible for levying indirect taxes, preventing smuggling, surveilling borders, and investigating counterfeit money. The agency acts as a coast guard, border guard, sea rescue organisation and immigration service, as well as a customs service.

The Directorate-general is controlled by the Minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service (French: Ministère du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Fonction publique) at the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment. It is normally known simply as "la Douane", individual officers being referred to as "douaniers". It is an armed service.

The customs headquarters is in Montreuil (Paris). The agency consists of three types of unit:

Administration centrale

· Sub-directorates A to F

· Département des statistiques et des études économiques

· Inspection des services (IS) for internal auditing

· Bureau de l'information et de la communication (BIC) for communications

· Cellule de contrôle de gestion

National Competence Services

· Direction nationale du recrutement et de la formation professionnelle (DNRFP) based in Tourcoing

· Direction nationale du renseignement et des enquêtes douanières (DNRED) against fraud

· Direction nationale des statistiques et du commerce extérieur (DNSCE), a statistical service based in Toulouse

· Centre informatique douanier (CID), an information technology service based in Osny

· Service nationale de la douane judiciaire (SNDJ), a judicial investigation service based in Vincennes.

· Service commun des laboratoires (SCL), providing scientific support in laboratories