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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
by Frances Gendlin
Marshall Cavendish 2007: 370 pp.
Village Voice €19, Your French News Price €18
Apotpourri of information useful to high-income first-time
non-French speaking settlers in Paris, from how to purchase
an apartment and how to go about looking for a job (a very short
section, so don’t get your hopes up) to how to behave if you’re
invited to dinner in a French home (“learn to eat everything with
a knife and fork, even fruit”).
With tips about shopping for cheese at Barthélémy’s, caviar at
Petrossian’s and chocolates chez Lenôtre, this is a “survival”
guide for the Europe-on-five-hundred-dollars-a-day crowd: the
shock comes at the cash register.
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