Russian uses phonetic transcription for the Cyrillization of its many loanwords from French.
Some use is made of Cyrillic's iotation features to represent French's front rounded vowels and etymologically-softened consonants.
In the table below, the symbol ⟨ʲ⟩ represents either a "softened" consonant or the approximant /j/.
[kz] [gz] кз гз Saint-Exupéry – Сент-Экзюпери Doubled French consonants remain doubled in their Russian transcription: Rousseau – Руссо.
Silent consonants (common in French) are generally not transcribed, except where they exist in the surface form due to liaison.