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• Business Operations in France  Reference Table 6 KF6289.A1T35 #961
  Heavy tax and accounting focus.
• Delmas business dictionary:  English-French, French-English  HF1002. A5 1979
• Bilingual guide to business and professional correspondence (French-English)  HF5726. H34 1978
• International Encyclopedia of Business & Management  Reference HF1001.I53 1996 v.1
  Volume 1 of this set includes entries on accounting in various countries, including Australia, central and eastern Europe, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, USA, and a general entry on international accounting that includes several countries
• Mind your manners:  managing business cultures in Europe  HD70.E8M653 1995
• Business cultures in Europe  HD58.7 .R354 1993
• Doing Business with France  HG5472.D64 1998
• OECD economic surveys:  France  HC271.O7
• Background Notes
  Provides information on geographic entities and international organizations. Information includes basic country profile, people and history, government and political conditions, economy, defense, foreign relations, and travel and business information.   From the U.S. Dept. of State.
• Bank of France (English version available at bottom of the page)
• Bourse de Paris (English version available)
• Country Commercial Guide
  Access current CCGs through tradeport.org or NTDB.  From the U.S. Dept. of State.  Detailed overview of doing business in another country, including economic trends & outlook, political environment, marketing U.S. products & services, leading export sectors, trade regulations & standards, investment climate, trade financing, business travel, trade statistics, and contact information. 
• Current Exchange Rate (Yahoo Finance)
• Embassy of France
• Governments on the WWW: France
• Internet Public Library:  French Newspapers
• National Institute of Statistics & Economic Studies
  • See also:  Other Statistical Servers in France
• TradePort 

Basic background information covering the labor force, languages, ethnicity, and education

• France Facts and Figures (From Nationsmaster.com)

Provides statistics for the country in the areas of Agriculture, Crime, Education, Food, Lifestyle, and much more. References are included for each statistic.

• World Factbook
  Gives a good general background of the country, including information on communications, defense, the economy, flags, maps, geography, the people, government, military, and transportation.

 

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