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- gramme0
Whatever you do, don't stretch it until legibility is sacrificed. People should have to look for the beginning of the next line.
This is only a general average, mind you, but for a font of average x-height at nine pt., I'd use 12 points of leading. Less than that, and it tends to look too tight; more than that, and it tends to look wasteful at best, and illegible at worst.