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+# Author: your name here!
+# Contact: goodger@users.sourceforge.net
+# Revision: $Revision$
+# Date: $Date$
+# Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain.
+
+"""
+French-language mappings for language-dependent features of
+reStructuredText.
+"""
+
+__docformat__ = 'reStructuredText'
+
+
+directives = {
+      'attention (translation required)': 'attention',
+      'caution (translation required)': 'caution',
+      'danger (translation required)': 'danger',
+      'error (translation required)': 'error',
+      'hint (translation required)': 'hint',
+      'important (translation required)': 'important',
+      'note (translation required)': 'note',
+      'tip (translation required)': 'tip',
+      'warning (translation required)': 'warning',
+      'topic (translation required)': 'topic',
+      'line-block (translation required)': 'line-block',
+      'parsed-literal (translation required)': 'parsed-literal',
+      #'questions (translation required)': 'questions',
+      #'qa (translation required)': 'questions',
+      #'faq (translation required)': 'questions',
+      'meta (translation required)': 'meta',
+      #'imagemap (translation required)': 'imagemap',
+      'image (translation required)': 'image',
+      'figure (translation required)': 'figure',
+      'include (translation required)': 'include',
+      'raw (translation required)': 'raw',
+      'replace (translation required)': 'replace',
+      'contents (translation required)': 'contents',
+      'sectnum (translation required)': 'sectnum',
+      'section-numbering (translation required)': 'sectnum',
+      'target-notes (translation required)': 'target-notes',
+      #'footnotes (translation required)': 'footnotes',
+      #'citations (translation required)': 'citations',
+      }
+"""French name to registered (in directives/__init__.py) directive name
+mapping."""