Passport France

Your Pocket Guide to French Business, Customs, and Etiquette

By Nadine Joseph

ISBN 1-885073-29-1
US$6.95
96 Pages
Passport France contains detailed information about business practices, negotiating styles, customs, etiquette, government, view of foreigners, and much more in France. International businesspeople will discover a wealth of hard-to-find information to help them break through cultural barriers and ease their fears about doing business in France. The book is attractive, portable, easy to read, and short enough to digest in one sitting.

Table of Contents

Overview

Chapter 1: Doing Business Across Cultures

Chapter 2: Country Facts
Chapter 3: The French
Chapter 4: Cultural Stereotypes
Chapter 5: Regional Differences

Business Environment

Chapter 6: Government & Business

Chapter 7: The Work Environment
Chapter 8: Women in Business
Chapter 9: Making Connections
Chapter 10: Strategies for Success
Chapter 11: Time
Chapter 12: Business Meetings
Chapter 13: Negotiating with the French
Chapter 14: Business Outside the Law

Customs & Etiquette

Chapter 15: Names & Greetings

Chapter 16: Communication Styles
Chapter 17: Customs
Chapter 18: Dress & Appearance
Chapter 19: Reading the French
Chapter 20: Entertaining: Le Grand Repas
Chapter 21: Socializing

Additional Information

Chapter 22: Basic French Phrases

Chapter 23: Correspondence
Chapter 24: Useful Numbers
Chapter 25: Books and Internet Addresses

About the Author

Nadine Joseph, daughter of an Alsatian and a Tourangelle, passed her French bac before earning a B.A. in French literature at Barnard College and two masters degrees from Columbia University. As a journalist, she has covered the Cannes Film Festival for the Associated Press and events at the United Nations for Agence France Presse, and she taught a course about the foreign press at U.C. Berkeley. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Redbook.