Objectives Using complementary methods, Gard et al. (2007) [13] reported that schizophrenia patients reported as much pleasure in the moment as controls in their daily lives and on a measure of trait consummatory pleasure (consummatory subscale of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale [TEPS-CONS]) but the schizophrenia patients reported experiencing less trait pleasure in anticipation of future events (anticipatory subscale of the TEPS [TEPS-ANT]) compared to healthy controls. The aim of the present study was to replicate the Gard et al. (2007) [13] study using the French version of the TEPS. Patients and method Hundred and twenty-five university students were recruited as well as 162 inpatients with either schizophrenia or mood, neurotic or personality disorders. All participants completed the French versions of the following rating scales: the 18-item TEPS, the 61-item revised Physical Scale (PAS) and the 41-item Social Anhedonia Scale (SAS), the 14-item Snaith Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS) and the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). We also created PAS anticipatory (PAS-ANT) and PAS consummatory (PAS-CONS) scales from the university student sample. Firstly, we examined the construct, concurrent validities and reliability of the TEPS using respectively confirmatory factorial analyses (CFA) to test the two-factor structure of the TEPS, Pearson's correlations between the ten-item TEPS-ANT or eight-item TEPS-CONS and the other anhedonia scales and Cronbach's alpha coefficients. Secondly, we compared the three groups (university students, schizophrenia subjects, other psychiatric subjects) using analyses of variance (ANOVA) on the measures of anticipatory and consummatory anhedonias. Results For the results of the CFA, we used three parameters to test the adequacy of the data to the model: the normed chi-square, the root mean square residual and the root mean square error of approximation. The three parameters were respectively for the university and psychiatric samples: 1.66, 0.09, 0.074 and 2.19, 0.09, 0.087. Cronbach's alpha coefficients were satisfactory (>0.7) for the TEPS-ANT. Significant correlations were observed between either the TEPS-CONS or the TEPS-ANT and the anhedonia scales suggesting satisfactory concurrent validities. Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) reported significant difference between groups for the TEPS-ANT but not for the TEPS-CONS. Similar results were observed using the PAS-ANT and PAS-CONS. Conclusion The French version of the TEPS had satisfactory psychometric properties and replicated the Gard et al. (2007) [13] study reporting that schizophrenic subjects had low anticipatory pleasure than healthy controls but did not differ on consummatory pleasure. Moreover, the difference on anticipatory pleasure between healthy and schizophrenic subjects was independent of depression and there was no difference between schizophrenic subjects and non-schizophrenic psychiatric controls concerning anticipatory pleasure. Further studies are needed to explore the hypothesis that specific subgroups of schizophrenic subjects (for exemple, deficit schizophrenic subjects) could be more anhedonic in either form of anhedonia (anticipatory and/or consummatory anhedonia), additionally comparisons should be further made with psychiatric controls without a schizophrenia diagnosis.