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by fransje26 613 days ago
> My experience driving in rural France was that nearly every intersection was a roundabout and it slowed things down dramatically. [..] Surely one of the two directions is more used and a couple of putting stop signs the other way would make more sense.

Yes, that is by design. Slowing traffic down, also in relatively low-traffic areas, is one of the use-cases for roundabouts in France. Mostly around villages and/or industrial areas.