The tennis and motor racing events will clash again this year on July 16 but will be a week apart next year - the British Grand Prix is on Sunday, July 8, which is scheduled as the mid-tournament rest day at the tennis, though the men's final is still on the same day as football's World Cup final, which will kick off in the evening.
Paul Ricard last hosted the French GP in 1990.
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix will be held from June 22 to 25, 2017.
"We wanted to finalise next season's calendar early, so that all our stakeholders would have more time to prepare and we have managed it, thanks in part through working closely with the FIA", commented Formula One Chairman and CEO, Chase Carey.
The then-Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said previous year the promoter was trying to strike a "long-term" deal with Singapore, and played down comments that the Lion City was looking to drop the race.
As usual, the season will get underway with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 25, ending exactly 8 months later in Abu Dhabi in November.
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"France was one of the seven races that made up the first ever world championship in 1950 and it now returns after a decade", Carey said.
It is the second time Formula 1 will visit Azerbaijan, and as a result Lowe, the Chief Technical Officer at Williams, feels they will be better prepared this time around, although the Grove-based team achieved a double points finish a year ago with Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa.
"With three back-to-back races, personally, I feel it is too much for Formula One". The race will take place against the background of the old town Icheri Sheher, silhouettes of the modern part of the city and the views of the seafront of the Caspian Sea.
Russian Federation was the fourth round this year but that race moves away from the May Day holiday weekend to an end of September slot instead.
This weekend's Azerbaijan GP has been moved forward to April 29, making it the fourth race of the season.
Both China and the popular Singapore night race have been marked on the provisional 2018 schedule as "subject to commercial rights holder confirmation".
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