The French also permitted Rizal to live in exile in France where he wrote the books Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
[6] Filipinos living in France work as artists,[4] domestic servants,[4] professionals,[4] students,[4] and writers,[4] or in the health care,[7][8] information technology,[7] and electronics sectors.
[7] The French government encouraged Filipinos to work in France, as long as they eventually returned to the Philippines, by instituting new migration laws.
[9] Brice Hortefeux, French Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Development Solidarity, said, "I’ve already put in place, for particularly skilled workers, a specific procedure allowing them a three-year, once-renewable, permit to stay in France.
[10] Only one school in France, the EFI Langue Institut Linguistique Européen in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, offers classes about the Filipino language.