[Tex/LaTex] The very basics of french accents

accents

How do I write this sentence "Le comportement de l’homme rationnel devant le risque: critique des postulats et axiomes de l’école Américaine" in French in LaTex?

I need to know the basic, as I have not written any french accents in LaTex before?

Also I am using TexMaker and here is my preamble:

    \documentclass[12pt,reqno]{amsart}

    % Packages
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[french]{babel}

EDIT: This is the problem I am having now:

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The Title References has accents.

Best Answer

You need the package inputenc (and the option for the encoding of your editor) for this and you should type ' instead of ` for the apostrophes (this last point could be some issue of copy/pasting on my system...).

% arara: pdflatex

\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % my editor is set to use utf8 and this would be my recommendation for most cases

\begin{document}
Le comportement de l'homme rationnel devant le risque: critique des postulats et axiomes de l'école Américaine
\end{document}

If you want the colon to be separated a bit from the prior word, you must load \usepackage[french]{babel}. Will be helpful in any case, I guess.

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