It may be more than what you have to provide abroad (but I would disagree on a few cases, for instance Japan where you need exceptional guarantors like your com

It may be more than what you have to provide abroad (but I would disagree on a few cases, for instance Japan where you need exceptional guarantors like your company, as well as pay a few months of rent that will never be refunded - known as "key money"), but there is a reason for that. As a landlord in France, I can assure you that renters have extreme protections here. They can avoid paying rent for months on end without being evicted. That's why we have to ask for so many documents, to try to reduce as much as possible the risk for us. Furthermore, the documents a landlord can ask a potential renter is limited by law, so there shouldn't be any abuse with that.