This Essential guide to living and working in France is a ready reference for new and established resident and home-owners. You need not read it cover-to-cover to glean information, as it consists of more than 1,000 encyclopaedia-style entries, each containing key facts and many with references to more comprehensive printed and online publications for further information. Moreover, there are two indexes, one in English and one in French, so you can rapidly find facts by starting from either language.
REVIEWS:
'This encyclopedia-style handbook leaves no stone unturned, covering every aspect thinkable for those relocating to France. Essential for new residents, a complete reference guide. A thoroughly informative book.' French Magazine'The information within the guide is catalogued in logical sections, with a useful index and is clearly laid out. In addition, the text is broken up with numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables to further ease reading, all of which makes it an easily navigable manual that will greatly benefit any newcomer to France' Living France
AUTHOR BIOG:
Michael Brady, long-time Francophile is a thorough researcher and writer on matters of concern to new residents: his best-selling Living and Working in Norway has become the benchmark in its category. Over many extended visits to France he compiled copious notes and expanded them considerably after buying a property there in 2003. This book makes the results of that undertaking available for other new residents and long-term visitors from other countries.
CONTENTS:
1. Arriving and settling
2. Banking, insurance and money matters
3. Business and work
4. Cars, roads and traffic
5. Character, customs and country
6. Church, religion and belief
7. Climate, environment and physical geography
8. Clothing, footwear and fashion
9. Concise gazetteer
10. Crimes, wrongs and countermeasures
11. Defence and security
12. Drink, drugs and tobacco
13. Education, science and technology
14. Electrical and electronic goods
15. Emergencies
16. Entertainment and the arts
17. Farms, farming and gardening
18. Family and children
19. Food and eating
20. Foreigners and minorities
21. Government, politics and administration
22. Health care and social security
23. Historical overview
24. Holidays and festivities
25. Housekeeping
26. Housing
27. Human rights and consumer rights
28. Language
29. Law, lawyers and courts
30. Measurements and standards
31. Media, information and documentation
32. Museums, exhibitions and festivals
33. Non-government organisations (NGOs)
34. Orders, societies and association
35. Pets and animals
36. Post and forwarding
37. Prices
38. Registrations and certificates
39. Retirement
40. Shopping
41. Sport and leisure
42. Statistics, analyses and polls
43. Taxes, duty and excise
44. Telecommunications, broadcasting and Information technology
45. Trades
46. Travel and transport
Useful Books
English Index
French Index.
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