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Logico-semantic relations such as entailment or presupposition are concepts treated constantly in the field of classical logic or the logical semantics. This paper aims at the analyses of entailment and presupposition observable in the common text. By utilizing their logical definitions, the paper will attempt to explore the logico-semantic relations and through the process analyse their semantic effects observable in the speeches of the President of France and in the editorials of Le Monde. The entailment is provoked by sufficient condition, necessary condition, and finally by necessary and sufficient condition in common text by si, pour, donc. The presupposition in this manner is produced by the factivity and the aspect. French verbs such as savoir, ignorer, oublier, regretter exhibit the factivity observable, and verbs such as commencer, continuer, finir concerns the aspect. Also the paper analyses texts from French novels, from a learners' point of view : Le petit Nicolas, Harry Potter-A l'école des sorciers, Le Papillon des étoiles. The analyses will demonstrate the utility of logico-semantic relations discernable in learning foreign languages.