Why does the French language put spaces before their ending punctuation mark?

I do not know if it’s just French, but always seem to put a space before the punctuation mark of maturity (period, exclamation points or question marks) There is a reason for this? It would be wrong to write in French, with no space at the end?

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4 Responses to “Why does the French language put spaces before their ending punctuation mark?”

  1. SUE says:

    Never noticed that. I don“t think they do.

    they never did in my textbooks.

  2. walkaboutlanguages says:

    Never seen that either…

  3. Darius says:

    The rule is the same as in English. You don’t need to put a space before any ending ponctuation mark. Someones do that only because they think it’s more clear.

  4. jorge c says:

    Hi, it is true that punctuation in English and in French are different, for example with “;”, but for the point the rule is French is no space before but a space after, the same in English.

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