Forget will be without his two best players, the 12th-ranked Gael Monfils and No. 17 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga because of injury, but decided against naming a fifth player as a replacement.
Forget says "once again, bad luck has struck" but that despite the injuries "our reservoir (of players) allows us to pick a very competitive team."
The March 4-6 clay-court tie will be indoors in Vienna.
France was missing the former Australian Open runner-up Tsonga when it lost the Davis Cup final to Serbia last year.
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