How to POS_TAG a french sentence?

Question

I'm looking for a way to pos_tag a French sentence like the following code is used for English sentences:

def pos_tagging(sentence):
    var = sentence
    exampleArray = [var]
    for item in exampleArray:
        tokenized = nltk.word_tokenize(item)
        tagged = nltk.pos_tag(tokenized)
        return tagged

Answer 1

here is the full code source it works very well download link for Standford NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tagger.shtml#About

from nltk.tag import StanfordPOSTagger
jar = 'C:/Users/m.ferhat/Desktop/stanford-postagger-full-2016-10-31/stanford-postagger-3.7.0.jar'
model = 'C:/Users/m.ferhat/Desktop/stanford-postagger-full-2016-10-31/models/french.tagger'
import os
java_path = "C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/java.exe"
os.environ['JAVAHOME'] = java_path

pos_tagger = StanfordPOSTagger(model, jar, encoding='utf8' )
res = pos_tagger.tag('je suis libre'.split())
print (res)