How to localise emacs to french ?

[gelinp38]

Hi,

I found french-utf8.pl script to localise emacs menu items to french. But I 
fail to load it. To do so I add this lines into .emacs file :

;; --------------------------------------------
;; Tell emacs where is your personal elisp lib dir
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elisp")

;; load the packaged named xyz.
(load-library "french-utf8.pl")
;; --------------------------------------------

The result is a warning and menu always in french :

///////////////////////////////////////////////////
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/gelinp/.emacs':

File error: Cannot open load file, french-utf8

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////

Is .pl files sames as .el scripts ? Do I need to modify the .emacs file ?

Thank you for your help.