I have to agree 100%: French PHOTO was the best photography magazine I ever bought on a regular basis. Their editors just had the knack of finding the best of what was going down in the world of fashion and photographic ideas.
They started a US version, I think by taking over an existing title - was it Modern Photography? Maybe not.
For a while, both were available in Spain, and gave rise to some giggles: they both made annual lists of the hundred most influential photographers in the world. Lo and behold, the lists were not exactly identical! Surprise, surprise!
Ah, that marketing; makes fibbers of us all!
;-)