A little help needed, please?

Question

Is it required to use guillemets (<<>>) in French? Is it that mandatory? Is it possible to use regular quotation marks in French or a mixture of both? Look, all I'm just asking is can we use both in French?

Answer 1

No i dont think you can use that still.

Answer 2

See : &quot;Quotation mark, non-English usage : French&quot; :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_m...

Answer 3

Hi! My native language is french and I can tell you that even if you don&#039;t use guillemets we&#039;ll understand. You can use what you want. When we use guillemets in french it&#039;s just because we&#039;re talking with a false word, for exemple an expression or an anglicism, so when we write these kind of words with guillements, it shows that we&#039;re using an expression. But as I told you, you&#039;re not obligated to use it. But if you&#039;re writting a serious text, it would be better to use guillemets.

Answer 4

Usually you would use guillemets.

You can use normal quotation marks too though.

But it&#039;s different because in books they could use guillemets, quotation marks or or just &quot;-&quot;.

Ex:

-Moi je suis petite

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