Spacing inverted commas - quotation marks

En English there is no spacing between quotations marks and the word famed, like “quotation marks”, but in French there is a spacing like : " guillemets ".
I write in French, so how can I create a permanent spacing between quotations marks and the word famed ?
Thanks you very much.

Glad to read that I am not the unique user bored by this feature.
I asked it to Apple's Bugs Hunters since october 2007 (when Pages offered only the curly quotes).
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_,
write something like:
Please, enhance the "replace quotes" feature to match languages requirements.
In French from France, we MUST use :
LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ($00AB) + NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE ($202F)
NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE ($202F) + RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ($00BB)
In some other countries using French these spaces are not used so it would be useful
to offer a GUI allowing us to set the substitution STRINGS according to the local rules.
A single developer like the author of Bean.app was able to offer that in its FREE product.
I guess that you are able to do that too.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'10
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 11 avril 2009 18:59:23)

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