"Désormais, il m'était impossible de rester en France."

[rlhutton]

This sentence is very strange since the first word sets a present-to-future timeframe then a past tense verb is used. Does this sentence actually "work" in French?

[candaceh]

It accepted my translation of désormais to 'from then on,' so it probably works in French. The main English translation here is just incorrect.

[Koolkaren]

Exactly! :)