I've seen quite a few French sporting rifles, and really would love to get my hands on a mid-19th century very high grade 16b or 20b pinfire SxS rifle with real-for-real Bernard damascus barrels.

That'd be great!

Keep your eyes out for me...

And FWIW I'm with NitroX on this one, however you feel about politics and however you want to wear your blinders, those pesky French are responsible for the success of the metallic cartridge -- and would seem to have had some great influence on the success of the breech loading sporting arm too.

--Tinker