I guess you should better use babel. Here is a rough base:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}

\begin{document}

�a marche? Bien s�r! La preuve: m�me les espaces sont bon(ne)s!
L'�lectromagn�tisme est coup� �trangement, mais il ne peut pas
conna�tre toutes les th�ories.

\end{document}

Works with basic tetex from Mandrake.

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