French Accents with Mac OS X

My Mac's language settings are set to English and I'm using a Microsoft (USB) English keyboard.

After a search on Google, I found the solution:

Adding accents on a Mac is very simple, just hold down the option (alt)  key plus the key for the accent you want to create, then type the letter you would like to appear under the accent.  Hold shift for capital letters.
Here is the list of the keys to hold down with option (alt) to create each accent (do not type the +): 

Grave (è) – option + ~
Aigu (é) – option + e
Cédille (ç) – option + c
Circonflexe (ê) – option + i
Tréma (ö) – option + u

 (The above was taken from James Ward's blog at: http://jamesward.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/french-accents-on-mac-os-x-leopard/)

So if you wanted to create "é", you would do the following:

1. Press the following keys together: Alt  e
2. Once again press: e

I hope that was clear enough. Once you get used to it, it's actually easier to remember than the usual keyboard modifications under Windows 7.