I believe I saw them in the Jacksonville, FL area. I had no idea at the time. The USN does have foreign aircraft here training all the time. I saw a bunch of Korean pilots in flight suits at the Walmart by NAS JAX last year.
The last and perhaps only time the French Navy engaged in a successful action was in the Chesapeake in 1781 when the British commander of a relief fleet took some insignificant damage in a brief battle and promptly turned back to New York. That British commander changed history. The French must have been astonished.
one carrier air wing (CVW), composed of three Rafale-M fighter squadrons and one E-2C Hawkeye squadron.
And this is funny ...
“since the times of Lafayette, de Grasse, and Rochambeau both navies and nations have been bound by unwavering links”
They leave out the time right after we liberated France from Germany, for which they will never forgive us, the era of De Gaulle, made doubly funny by that also being the name of their carrier.