Hard for me to understand how people could criticize the French for engineering or design or anything else. Most major industries, especially the car industry, are pretty international and have all sorts of nationalities working for them. When it comes to cars at least I am happy that the French manufacturers go their own ways - everything else looks the same. Besides the 2CV was a heck of a lot of fun to drive. There were a lot of years in which American cars were just plain junk.

Those rifles on the D&D site are beautiful by any standard. Chapius makes great double rifles for the price, and they are worthy of consideration with American and German made doubles in the same general range. Besides, buying French occasionally means that they will have the means to buy some of the crap America foists on the world. (Garbage hamburgers, bad movies, dumb tv shows, for instance.)