Gil,
I`m not a colector of mil. arms though I do have some mostly for actions to build other rifles from. I have had or still have rifles from the US, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Argintiana, and Japan. I have never had anything French and have never heard any reason to buy any French gun, from what I hear they have nothing to offer me. The French did give us the staute of Liberty, but that is about the only good thing I can think about with them. I guess they make good wine, but I don`t like good wine. Their gun of WWll eira were amount the poorest in the war. I won`t say I`ll never own a Friench made gun, but it I do it will be real cheap.