In The War To End All Wars (it wasn't called the First World War until the Second World War came along, of course) the French produced a number of fine fighter planes: Spads, Nieuports, Morane-Saulniers that served not only the French Army of the Air well, but also many American aces. After the Armistice, France decided to base its defense on a line of fortifications, the Maginot Line, and allowed its Army of the Air—once Europe's most powerful—to stagnate. In order to keep its aircraft industry from fading away completely, the government financed the development of new designs and the manufacture of a few prototypes. Many of them were interesting and attractive.
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