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This is just my opinion and what I know from being an SU demo since 2004. After being in the US, SU expanded into Canada, but at first I don't think that included Quebec. THEN Quebec was included. So our US catalog shows sets that are also available in French.
About 10 years ago (or so), SU thought there was an untapped market for stamps in Spanish and marketing to Hispanic customers. At Convention one year, they gave us a Spanish catalog (it was much smaller than the annual catalog) that had a few stamp sets unique to Spanish and the others had sentiments translated into Spanish. We had that small catalog for only 1-2 years, so I don't think we sold much from there.
Stampin' Up is now truly International, and we have demos in France and other European countries.
Hope this helps!
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Being Canadian, I have a limited number of French sets, mostly thank you and Christmas sets. It's helpful given that I would in a bilingual workplace. I know that the French cards are always appreciated by my bilingual coworkers.
I bought a Christmas set in French because there was an image in it I wanted, and I have a friend that is French-Canadian. So I can make her Christmas cards with a French greeting, I have plenty of stamps that say Merry Christmas, I didn't need another, and she loves getting a card in French (which is her first language).
Maybe they are not in the North American catalogue? It makes sense that the French ones are because of the Francophones Canadians, but Germany has been a big market for as long as I remember (it's also their European base), and they produce quite a few sets with German sentiments. And they have added Dutch more recently, too in the European catalogue.
However, it's not always a direct match. If memory serves, the F in Vintage Vogue has "friends" in English but I think says "famille" in French, which reduces it's usefulness, and I think one of the other sentiments in the set translates to English as "one for all, all for one" , not a match for with of the English sentiments.