I'm finding hard to follow what you are saying about the French version, sorry if my reply could sound generic:

Our offer to make more foreign versions of this film was made on the assumption that at least the German and French theatrical versions would have localised on-screen text in 1984.But since we found out that this is not the case, our work on removing the English text is of no use to anyone but the Italian public.

Any further audio preservation in other foreign languages can be easily coupled with future versions of the kk650's 1080p regraded release, which makes more sense since all foreign versions (but the Italian one) make use of the American master.

So, unless somebody shows up with a 35mm print of the film with other localised on-screen text, I can only declare that this will be an Italian preservation only. We will include English audio from Laserdisc and English subtitles but that's it.