Just as anywhere else in the world, life is filled with the practical issues we must confront from day to day. Work has to be secured, papers registered, an apartment or house needs to be bought or rented. When Jean Taquet and his American wife moved back to France after spending time in the US, he begin to better understand how cultural differences greatly affect the practical matters of living abroad.
" I began to see how it is not your level of French that creates difficulty It is your capacity of understanding different cultures that matters."

Though France might seem as familiar as any other Western country, the truth is, from paying taxes to having a baby -- things are done differently in France.

These are almost 450 questions from REAL people and all the PRACTICAL ANSWERS for LIVING IN FRANCE . . .

The Insider Guide to Practical Answers for Living in France is a compilation of Jean Taquet's Question and Answer columns which appeared in The Paris Free Voice over thirteen years and continues today published by Parler Paris. Thousands of people read Jean Taquet's column every month and hundreds of people posed questions to him.
These questions and answers are real-life stories from those individuals who have lived here before, who have confronted practical situations that will inevitably resemble those you might face when living abroad. Let their situations give you a wealth of experiential information on which you can build your Paris-life. Taquet's Qs & As offer a practical know-how you sill soon find invaluable. . .

Biography
JT holds a masters degree in law from the Sorbonne University and the French BTS accounting degree. He served as a jurist officer in the French Army in1985.
He has been managing the refugee ministry of the American church since 1993, and has written the Question and Answer column in the Paris Free Voice. This column has continued and a book has been made with it.
The Insider Guide to Practical Answers for Living in France
http://www.insiderparisguides.com/answers
As an associate member of the Delaware Bar association since 1987, he had an article published in the February 1988 issue of the Delaware lawyer and sat as a guest member on the wills and trusts committee.