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 #1584425  by lpetrich
 
Strictly speaking, the LGV's or TGV lines.

The most recent ones built are (2016) (near Nancy) - Strasbourg, (2017) Le Mans - Rennes, (2017) Tours - Bordeaux, (2018) Avignon - Montpellier, with none under construction, as far as I've been able to find out. The projects:

Barreau de Massy (Massy Interconnection), a connection near Paris between the LGV Sud-Est (Southeast: Lyon-Marseille) and the LGV Atlantique (Atlantic: Tours-Rennes, LeMans-Bordeaux), a connection much like the existing one between the LGV Sud-Est and the LGV Nord (North: Lille-Chunnel/Brussels).

This will enable bypassing Paris for trains between (1) W and SW France and (2) NE and SE France, much as the present interconnection enables trains between NE and SE France to bypass Paris.

Paris - Rouen - Le Havre. It will extend westward from Paris's Haussmann-Saint Lazare station. Another rail construction project is already going on there, the westward extension of the regional-system RER E line from there to some west-side stations of the RER A: Porte Maillot, La Défense-CNIT, and Nanterre-la-Folie.

Bordeaux-Toulouse. The national gov't has committed most of the funding for that 222-km line.

Marseille-Toulon-Cannes-Nice. Funding has been committed from the EU, the national gov't, and local gov'ts. It will be a mixture of new line sections and upgrades of existing ones, like a new underground station at Marseille Saint Charles and tunnels elsewhere.

Montpellier-Béziers-Perpignan. It will start with an extension of the existing line from Montpellier to Béziers, with a later extension to Perpignan. That will make continuous high-speed trackage on both sides of the Perpignan-Figueres tunnel in the Pyrenees mountains at the France-Spain border.
 #1641860  by lpetrich
 
They are finally starting on building Bordeaux-Toulouse.
The Bordeaux-Toulouse HSR line is now under construction : r/transit
noting
La LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse en construction - France Bleu (French: The Bordeaux-Toulouse LGV under construction)
(Unedited Google Translate)
Preparatory work for the High Speed Line which will connect Bordeaux to Toulouse has begun in Gironde. We'll explain it to you.

After numerous appeals from local residents fiercely opposed to this construction, and therefore a significant delay, the first work finally began on the high-speed line with demolitions in Cadaujac.
Gironde is about 15 kilometers east of Bordeaux and Caudajac 13 kilometers southeast.

They are expecting the line to open in 2031 or 2032.
 #1641862  by lpetrich
 
Nothing on Bordeaux - Dax, however.

Accueil | Grand Projet Ferroviaire du Sud-Ouest (French: Home | Major South-West Rail Project)

The first phase will be construction of lines from Bordeaux to Toulouse and Dax, and the second from Dax to the Spanish border.

The lines will branch at a station in South Gironde near Bordeaux, and the two lines will continue
  • S Gironde - Agen - Montauban - Toulouse
  • S Gironde - Mont-de-Marsan - Dax - Bayonne - San Sebastian
Elsewhere,
Montpellier - Perpignan HSL construction gets green light - International Railway Journal
Montpellier - Béziers will open in 2034, and Béziers - Perpignan in 2040.