[kujiiiro]

I am planning on going to paris in october. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what my options are as far as traveling from Paris to Frankfurt. What is the cheapest and the fastest way considering that I wont be spending a lot of time in Europe.

[Keggler]

Take the Eurorail. It's a great train system and you can puchase single way one time tickets or a pass which is good for a specified period if you intend to travel a lot in a relatively short period.

[tompink]

I recommend you take the night train from Paris to Stuttgart, departing at 10.45, arriving at 6.11 next morning. Then catch a train from Stuttgart to Frankfurt, depart .at 6.51 and arrive. at 8.08. Pay for a 2nd class ticket and a couchette for the night train, so you can sleep. They may tell you to change at Karlsruhe, which is the shortest rout, but the change is at 4.56 am, so I'd rather go on to Stuttgart, but you might not mind getting up before 5 a.m.
There used to be a direct night train Paris-Frankfurt, so apparently they've changed it.
It's not so cheap but you'll save on a hotel that night and wake up in Frankfurt. Your hotel in Paris will let you store your bags there between check out time and the evening when you'll get your bags and go to the train station.
There's also a train that leaves Paris at 6:54 and takes only 4 hours and 4 minutes to Frankfurt (arr. 10.58) if you'd rather do that. It's cheaper than other trains.
I was looking on raileurope.com
and it said the night train is sold out on some of the days I checked, but I don't really believe it.