PARIS — The French oil company Total will face trial in France over claims of corruption related to Iranian contracts dating from the 1990s and early 2000s, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.

Total agreed last year to pay $398.2 million to settle United States criminal and civil allegations that it had paid bribes to win oil and gas contracts in Iran, in what was billed as the first coordinated action by French and American law enforcement in a major foreign bribery case.

At the time, the Paris prosecutor recommended that the company and its chief executive, Christophe de Margerie, be brought to trial. Mr. de Margerie died last month in a plane crash, and the prosecutor’s office said it would not pursue criminal charges.

The United States authorities said that from 1995 to 2004, Total paid about $60 million in bribes to induce an Iranian government official to help the company obtain lucrative development rights in three oil and gas fields related to the South Pars project.