Use of expired French ID to travel to the UK for 2 weeks

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Returning to your country of (legal) residence is a special case of travel, in that your home country is obliged to accept your return. You may of course have issues proving what your home country is, but here that doesn't seem to be an issue as France recognized your ID.

That said, special cases are far more likely to draw attention, and it can take a while to figure out the legal situation here. The airline is in no way obliged for that, so there's nobody to blame when you miss your flight due to this.

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As you noted, a French ID card delivered between 2004 and 2015 has its validity extended by 5 years.

Currently, according to France Diplomatie (Google translation), the UK has not confirmed that the extended card is recognized as such at the UK borders:

Les autorités des pays suivants n’ont pas officiellement transmis leur position quant à leur acceptation de la carte nationale d’identité en apparence périmée mais dont la validité est prolongée de 5 ans comme document de voyage :

-(...) Royaume-Uni (...)

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