French third quarter economic growth revised down to 0.3 percent

PARIS (Reuters) - French economic growth accelerated slightly in the third quarter albeit by less than previously thought, official data showed on Friday.The INSEE statistics agency said the economy grew 0.3 percent in the three months to the end of September from the previous quarter, down from a previous estimate of 0.4 percent.That marked only a very marginal pick-up after the euro zone's second-biggest economy grew only 0.2 percent in both the first and second quarters.INSEE had earlier..