Footnotes

[Stanley Flamer]

Do you know the correct rules for applying footnotes in French text? Before or after the punctuation? In all circumstances?

[Benoit Curdy]

Voici un exemple de note de bas de page selon les règles françaises: http://www.meeus-d.be/photos/typo/gall1952.png

Donc, avant la ponctuation.

[Neil Coffey]

In cases like this, stand back and think: what do you actually mean by "the correct rules"?

- if you're writing for a particular publication/university etc, then the "correct rules" are whatever it says in that publication's style guide (or the one they choose to adopt)-- so just do whatever that style guide tells you to do;

- otherwise, there are no "correct rules". Do what you think looks best and/or is most logical in the particular situation in question.