Winds powering to 160 kilometres (100 miles) per hour battered the Breton peninsula overnight, French meteorological agency Meteo France said, according to AFP.
It lifted a high-winds alert for the region but maintained it for 10 departments -- the rough equivalent of counties -- in northwestern France and for three in the center-east of the country.
The agency said the storm conditions in the northeastern Atlantic had combined with a strong airstream directed at northwestern France, producing "an event that occurs three or four times per year."