hm, i am not positive about all the rules, but in french, the first speech should have an opening guillemet, the following replies should be indicated by an emdash, and the end of the dialogue should be indicated by closing guillemet, like in the example in your second quotation, with guillemets enclosing the exchange and an emdash to show that it's a second person speaking (see wikipedia :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillem...des_guillemets).
and guillemets are used to enclose a citation or reported speech within a sentence, like in the example :
Quote:
Et, sur un geste de Cyrus Smith, le capitaine ajouta:
«Ne craignez rien! Vous n’ensevelirez qu’un mort!»
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if one person speaks for more than one paragraph, there is often a closing guillemet at the end of their speech.
but it seems to me that i've seen a dialogue indicated using only emdashes, so perhaps the guillemets + emdashes rule is evolving.
edit : never mind, just ask jellby.
