Google Translate is not so bad (at least for German).
Well, I could have decided to answer in English first, right?
But I have moments where I feel like (s)training my poor French also. :)

P.S.: After reading the French part and assuming I understood it well enough I agree. I don't have made observations on French science articles but in German it seems to be the same. And actually I only remember one single user writing in French. @lamouthe would be the second then. I expect to be wrong about that. Oh my.