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| Thursday, 12 June 2008 | |
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A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
by Frances Gendlin Marshall Cavendish 2007: 370 pp. 
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”). |
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