I wondered the same. The French have one aircraft carrier.
French have air assets in Cyprus, Djibouti, Oman, and Turkey. GDSE was in Cyprus last month with RSAS, SAS, SBS, KSK, and Grom. Today's whereabouts-unknown.
9 posted on 09/19/2014 6:53:03 AM PDT by DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)