aspell-fr software package provides French dictionary for aspell, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install aspell-fr
aspell-fr is installed in your system.
Make ensure the aspell-fr package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep aspell-fr *
You will get with aspell-fr package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | aspell-fr |
| Version | 0.50-3-7 |
| Description | French dictionary for aspell |
| Sub Section | Text |