Appendix:French palindromes

11 letters

 * eibohphobie – aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes

9 letters

 * essayasse – from the verb
 * malayalam
 * ressasser

7 letters

 * apocopa – from the verb
 * Nauruan
 * Qaanaaq
 * réifier
 * retâter
 * semâmes – from the verb
 * sémèmes
 * Senones – a French town== an ancient Celtic people
 * snobons – from the verb

6 letters

 * mon nom – my name
 * sassas – from the verb
 * selles, sellés
 * sennes
 * serres, serrés
 * taffât – from the verb
 * tallât – from the verb
 * tannât – from the verb
 * tassât – from the verb
 * t'effet
 * tes set – your set

5 letters

 * aviva – from the verb
 * étêté
 * Inini
 * kanak
 * kayak
 * Laval – a Canadian city and a French town
 * nanan
 * Noyon – a French town
 * radar
 * rêver – to dream
 * rotor
 * rueur
 * sagas
 * salas – from the verb
 * sanas
 * sapas – from the verb
 * sèmes
 * sénés
 * sèves – saps
 * sexes
 * shahs
 * sidis
 * solos
 * sonos
 * talât – from the verb
 * tamât – from the verb
 * tapât – from the verb
 * tarât – from the verb
 * tasât – from the verb
 * tâtât – from the verb
 * taxât – from the verb

4 letters

 * alla – from the verb
 * assa
 * elle – she
 * erre
 * esse
 * naan
 * réer
 * Sées – a French town

3 letters

 * aha
 * axa – from the verb
 * bob
 * ère – era
 * été – summer
 * eue – from the verb
 * Ève
 * éwé
 * gag
 * ici – here
 * Ili
 * mém
 * mmm
 * nan
 * non – no
 * pop
 * sas
 * ses
 * sis
 * sus
 * tet
 * têt
 * tôt – early
 * tut – from the verb
 * tût – from the verb
 * vav
 * waw
 * zzz

2 letters

 * aa
 * Aa (a French river)
 * MM
 * Oô (a French village)

Phrases

 * À Laval, elle l'avala. (In Laval, she swallowed it)
 * À l'étape, épate-la ! (-Louise de Vilmorin) (At next stop, show her off!)
 * Bon sport, trop snob (good sport, too snob)
 * Eh, ça va la vache ? (-Louise de Vilmorin) (Hey, how is it, cow?)
 * Élu par cette crapule. (Elected by that toad)
 * Émile Éric, notre valet, alla te laver ton ciré élimé. (Émile Éric, our valet, went to wash your slimy jacket)
 * Engage le jeu, que je le gagne ! (kick off the game, so that I win it)
 * Ésope reste ici et se repose. (Aesop stays here and rests)
 * Et la marine va, papa, venir à Malte (And the navy will, dad, come to Malta) (- alexandrine attributed to Victor Hugo).
 * Et Luc colporte trop l'occulte.
 * Et se resservir, ivresse reste. (And reserving oneself, merriness stays)
 * L'âme sûre ruse mal (-Louise de Vilmorin)
 * L'ami naturel ? Le rut animal. (The natural friend? The animal rut) (-Louise de Vilmorin)
 * La malade pédala mal (the sick pedalled bad).
 * La mariée ira mal (the wife will be ill).
 * L'âme des uns iamais n'use de mal (-Jacques Favereau, 17th century) – (One's soul never resorts to evil)
 * Léon, émir cornu, d'un roc rime Noël. (-Luc Etienne)
 * Léon a rasé César à Noël (Leon shaved Caesar at Christmas).
 * Réussir à Paris : suer (succeed in Paris, sweat).
 * Sévère mal à l'âme, rêves. (Severe pain in the soul, dream)(-Luc Etienne)
 * Sexe vêtu, tu te vexes (dressed sex, you get vexed) (-Luc Etienne)
 * Suce ses écus. (suck these ecus) (-Louise de Vilmorin)
 * Ta belle porte s'use trop, elle bat. (Your beautiful door gets used up too quickly, it beats)
 * Trace là mon nom à l'écart. (Write my name in a retired place)
 * Tu l'as trop écrasé, César, ce Port-Salut !
 * Un roc lamina l'animal cornu.

Notes:
 * Georges Perec wrote the longest palindrome ever of 1247 words