Updated French translations

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Summary

Updates packages/theme-translations/locales/fr.json to complete missing translations and refine awkward ones.

Filled empty strings (12)

All 12 previously empty strings come from ghost-private/private.hbs — the password-protected page (access code prompt, email validation, confirmation messages, etc.). They were unusable in French until now.

Reworked issue → « numéro »

In French, « édition » suggests the edition of a book; for a newsletter, the standard term is « numéro ». Phrases like « Une collection de 15 éditions » read oddly — « Une collection de 15 numéros » is the natural phrasing.

Reworked Upgrade* strings

The previous translations mixed metaphors (« Surclasser votre compte », « Mise à niveau », « abonnement payant ») and used nouns where the UI needs verbs. Aligned everything around « Passer à l'offre supérieure », which is the standard French phrasing on subscription sites (Netflix, Spotify, etc.) and works for both free→paid and tier upgrades.

Other refinements

• Toggle menu: « Basculer le menu » → « Afficher le menu » (aria-label, more natural)
• Stay tuned (newsletter context, not audio): « Restez à l'écoute » → « À suivre »
• Site owner login: « Connexion propriétaire du site » → « Connexion administrateur »
• Show more: « Voir plus » → « En voir plus »
• Something went wrong, please try again.: « Une erreur s'est produite... » → « Un problème est survenu... »
• Thanks! Now check your email to confirm.: « Consultez votre e-mail... » → « Vérifiez votre boîte de réception... »
• Enter your email: « Saisissez votre e-mail » → « Saisissez votre adresse e-mail » (consistent with Your email address)
• "This page/post is for subscribers on the {tiers} only": « des formules {tiers} » → « de la formule {tiers} » (singular — {tiers} is a single tier name)

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Walkthrough

This pull request updates the French locale file with revised and completed translation strings across two functional areas. The first section updates issue listing and pagination UI, changing terminology and filling previously-empty entries for access and validation messages. The second section completes translations for authentication flows, subscription states, error messages, and upgrade prompts. All changes are locale key-value pair updates with no logic or public entity alterations.

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Possibly related PRs

• TryGhost/Themes#506: Both PRs update/introduce theme translation JSON strings (main PR updates French fr.json terminology and missing labels; retrieved PR adds Italian it.json translations), sharing the same i18n translation scope and overlapping UI/auth/pagination text keys.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'Updated French translations' directly reflects the main change in the PR, which updates French locale strings in fr.json.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is comprehensive and directly related to the changeset, detailing specific translations updated, the rationale behind terminology changes, and examples of refinements made.
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Preserve the existing translation key

For French sites that render this shared subscribe message, this key was changed from the curly-apostrophe source string used by packages/bulletin/home.hbs and packages/journal/default.hbs, so the lookup will miss and fall back to English while this new French value is unused. Keep the original Don’t ... key and update only its translation value.

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