{"id":132,"date":"2009-09-28T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=129"},"modified":"2009-09-28T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:40:09","slug":"writing-a-letter-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/writing-a-letter-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a Letter in French"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you ever need to write a letter in French either for work, school or pleasure? \u00a0Well, today, I’m going to try to help you out a bit with this task. \u00a0First, let’s talk about a formal\/business letter. \u00a0Let’s say you need to write a letter to a company asking for information. \u00a0You can put your company name and address in the top, left-hand corner. \u00a0You place the city you are writing from, a comma, and the current date in the top, right-hand corner. \u00a0About four lines down you write the name and address of the place you’re writing to again in the top, right-hand corner. \u00a0If you are writing in response or in relation to anything that has a reference number, place that reference number aligned to the left after the words “Ref.<\/em>” or “Objet<\/em>“. \u00a0Another four lines down, you write “Madame,<\/em>” (if you’re writing to a woman) or “Monsieur,<\/em>” (if you’re writing to a man) to the left. \u00a0You can write the name of the person before the comma if you know who you are writing to. \u00a0If you don’t know whether the person receiving the letter is a man or woman, you can write “Monsieur,Madame,”
\nThen, you indent once and begin the body of your letter. \u00a0After you finish the body of the letter, you write one of the ready-made long closings (f<\/strong>ormule de politesse<\/strong><\/em>) just like a paragraph. \u00a0Finally, you sign the letter aligned to the right. \u00a0If you’d like you can include your job position\/written name aligned to the right just above your signature. \u00a0 And that’s it! \u00a0Your letter might look something like this:<\/p>\n

Club de Fran\u00e7ais
\n105, rue de la Gait\u00e9
\n75014 PARIS<\/p>\n

Monsieur, Madame,<\/p>\n

Voulez-vous avoir l’obligeance de m’envoyer une documentation sur votre club (cotisation, programme d’activit\u00e9s, etc.)\u00a0\u00e0 l’adresse suivante\u00a0:<\/p>\n

M. Sylvain BOUCHON
\n15, rue d’Espagne
\n34000 MONTPELLIER<\/p>\n

Avec mes remerciements, veuillez agr\u00e9er, Monsieur, Madame, l’expression de mes sentiments distingu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Sylvain BOUCHON
\nSylvain Bouchon<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Here are some different closings you can use. \u00a0They pretty much just mean “Yours Faithfully” or “Sincerely”:
\nV<\/strong>euillez agr\u00e9er, Monsieur, l’expression de mes sentiments distingu\u00e9s<\/strong><\/em> (the most common)
\nJe vous prie de croire, Monsieur, \u00e0 l’expression de ma vive sympathie.
\n(replace\u00a0Monsieur <\/em>with\u00a0Madame<\/em> in the above if writing to a woman instead of a man)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Do any of you know of another f<\/em>ormule de politesse<\/em>? \u00a0Please share with us in a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you ever need to write a letter in French either for work, school or pleasure? \u00a0Well, today, I’m going to try to help you out a bit with this task. \u00a0First, let’s talk about a formal\/business letter. \u00a0Let’s say you need to write a letter to a company asking for information. \u00a0You can put…<\/p>\n

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