DW helped me sort out a range of issues with the banner in the French site. One was due to an HSD image rotator being inadvertently included in our banner setup; the other seems to have been my fault -- apparently I'd made changes to the site-styles.css file back in May, but I can't find any references to that on the blog, and can't remember what I was trying to fix when I was doing it. I took the first half of that file from the German and Slavic site, and it's working fine now. Meanwhile, History seems to have been making progress, and I've contacted TG about image processing and BD's instructions.