As it turns out, there was an update of that file about 39 days ago.  For reference purposes, I am providing a link to that update in here. http://www.elgg.fr/pg/file/ghislain/read/78652/mise-jour-de-la-traduction-pour-le-core-176 In that...

Just got back from vacation.  Since there was no feedback in 11 days, I have chased the problem myself and found the root cause.  As it turns out, there is a bug in the French translation.  The file languages/fr.php contains a byte...

I have just installed Elgg with the Tidypics plugin.  I have selected Elgg 1.7.6 because it is the latest version with French translation available.  When the site's default language is English, the photo gallery works beautifully. ...