Arie,
we have a few French knives outside Fontenille Pataud, we use even Opinel
kitchen knives in the southern households, as in most francophone Nations
Opinel has a dealership in Cameroun. My connection to FP goes back a while,
in the 1990s, I was sent to a pretty hairy geological excursion in Romania. Due to the
security situation in the country at the time, fixed blade knives were banned for everybody,
so I carried a Vic Swiss Champ and my FP Laguiole. Of course, we got stuck there for
2 weeks in the Carpathian Mountains due to bad weather.
There I used my Lag for everything, and got totally convinced about its quality,
so I rarely switch away from FP.
The Lag in question, still from the Gilles Steinberg era:
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Cheers
Rudi