Based on what I have read on this site, when you buy a ticket from TGV, you have to pick up your ticket at one the train stations in France. No option to print them online. Yet, if you book a ticket from DBBahn (for a trip from France to Germany, for example), you can print your ticket online. I have to assume that this online ticket is accepted on the train. Does anyone know why this is so?
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As Steve said, each national rail company has its own way of doing things.
If you book at tgv-europe.com and get a Prem's fare on a TGV and certain Corail trains for travel entirely within France, then you often can print your own ticket. Otherwise you indeed must pick up the ticket at a SNCF station or boutique.