Removing the indent of the first paragraph of a section (in French language)

Question

I want to remove the indent just for the first paragraph of a section. I am looking for an automatic solution. (I mean, it should be invisible for the "user", who does not have to type no indent)

I have tried

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\mySection}[1]{\section*{#1}\noindent}

\begin{document}
\mySection{Test}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

But it does not work. There is a single space at the very beginning of the paragraph.

Why is it so?
And how can I achieve this?

No, I want to remove the indent just for the first paragraph. — Colas, Mar 19 '16 at 19:49
Please see: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39227/4778 (the second answer suits your case I think.) — Alenanno, Mar 19 '16 at 19:49
I am looking for an automatic solution. So, it should be invisible for the "user", who does not have to type noindent. — Colas, Mar 19 '16 at 19:50
@Alenanno, nope, \usepackage{indentfirst} does just the opposite. — Colas, Mar 19 '16 at 19:52
@juanuni That implies to define a new command \mySection or modify the command \section... So, yeah, it implies writing in the preamble ;-) — Colas, Mar 19 '16 at 19:53
@Colas If the package can set it to true, it can be set to false. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/132369/4778 — Alenanno, Mar 19 '16 at 19:54
Definitely not a duplicate of the linked question, which is specific about elsarticle. — egreg, Mar 19 '16 at 20:19
The question is also about why the naive solution does not work. — Colas, Mar 19 '16 at 20:28
if you start the paragraph prematurely with \noindent then the end of line following the heading will make a space unless you comment it out, also a blank line following the heading, which is normally correct markup would make a spurious paragraph. — David Carlisle, Mar 19 '16 at 20:44
Why does babel indent the first paragraph? Is this a french convention? A bug that became a feature? — nowox, Aug 09 '20 at 07:50

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 01 '17 at 22:56

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Add \frenchbsetup{IndentFirst=false} to your preamble (p. 6 of the documentation):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\frenchbsetup{IndentFirst=false}

\begin{document}

\section{Zzzzz}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

edited Nov 01 '17 at 22:56

ShreevatsaR

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answered Mar 19 '16 at 20:15

Bernard

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Thanks @David Carlisle, for your patience with my typos… – Bernard Mar 19 '16 at 20:55
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I love your sleepy sections! – Bernard Mar 19 '16 at 21:02
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mainly just clarifying that it worked with normal \section no need for user \Section wrapper. – David Carlisle Mar 19 '16 at 21:12

Removing the indent of the first paragraph of a section (in French language)

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