Originally Posted by renegurl
also keep in mind that french keyboards are laid out differently than u.s. keyboards. they don't use QWERTY. if you're not used to it, you may end up spending much more time than you'd wanted e.g. writing an email.
Many of the larger internet cafés have a QWERTY keyboard or two among their workstations. The person in charge should be able to point you to them if available.