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Description of France: A Handbook for New Residents

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.

Title Information

ISBN:

9781845281328

Pages:

320 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

23406

Publisher:

How To Books

Published:

02/12/2006

Edition:

1st Edition

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About Michael Brady

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 of France: A Handbook for New Residents

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

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English Index
French Index