Format date in french

function getMomentLocaleData(localeCode) {
    return moment.localeData(localeCode) || moment.localeData('en');
}]

function getMomentLocaleData(localeCode) {
    return moment.localeData('fr') || moment.localeData('en');
}

echo date_format(date_create($item->startdate),'j F Y')

$date1 = date_format(date_create($item->startdate),'j F Y');
	setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR.UTF8');
	echo strftime("%d %B %G", strtotime($date1));