John,
Do you remember what was written on the pumps?
If it was a Total fuel station, then you'd have the choice of standard gazole or "Excellium" - a performance diesel well in advance of the standard.
Standard is around Euro 1,10, and Excellium is around Euro 1,20 - or a bit cheaper.
Both of these are to the EN590 standard and will be identical to UK fuel - in fact identical across the whole of Europe - except for winter (anti-waxing) additives.
Another possibility is that one of the fuels was "petrole" - domestic heating oil (paraffin) but you usually only see that in Hypermarkets (and is about 1/2 price of pump diesel)
Or you may have been offered a standard diesel (with 5% bio-diesel) or a higher content bio-diesel (around 20%)
Petrole most certainly will cause a few problems, the others shouldn't.
Robert