 | French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France by Polly Platt
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.85 Upper-class twit's version of living in paris and France, but still filled with indispensible insight.
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 | Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese by Denis Boyles
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.01 cockeyed view of modern France and all its quirks. funny and insightful.
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 Sedaris's "boy about town" in Paris is rich with insight into the daily life, frustrations, and joys involved in being an expat with poor language skills.
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 | The French by Theodore Zeldin
Buy used from: $2.27 This is an excellent, detailed, portrait of modern France with historical references to how France got to where it is today. Clears up lots of misperceptions about France for Americans.
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 | Michelin Red Guide 2008 France: Restaurants & Hotels (Michelin Red Guide: France)
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.99 To unlock a lot of mysteries about France, think about the food. "stared" Chefs are uber-celebrities in France, and people talk about meals decades after eating them.
This is the bible of all that thinking.
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